Swiss Federal Railways

Swiss Federal Railways (short: SBB, German: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB), French: Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses (CFF), Italian: Ferrovie federali svizzere (FFS), Romansh: Viafiers federalas svizras (VFS)) is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is also called SBB CFF FFS. The company was founded in 1902.

Re 450 between Winterthur and Zurich is one of the most important trains using in S-Bahn Zurich

The company headquarters is in Bern.

In the Zurich-Bern-Basel triangle, travel times between the cities is under one hour.

SBB also operates international EuroCity and EuroNight trains in Switzerland.

Trains

SBB currently owns 15 Trains that are in service.

EC/IC operated trains

Name	Top Speed
SBB Giruno	250 km/h
Astoro	250 km/h

IC/IR operated trains

Name	Top Speed
FV-Dosto	200 km/h
ICN	220 km/h
IC2000	200 km/h

An ICN train

IR operated trains

Name	Top Speed
New IR-Dosto	160 km/h?
IR-Dosto	160 km/h
Mouette	120 - 200 km/h

Other websites

• The SBB website (in German)
• The SBB website (in English)
• The SBB cargo website Archived 2004-09-18 at the Wayback Machine
• The CityNightLine website Archived 2004-08-24 at the Wayback Machine