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The links have been indexed into the following sections:

Societies
Model Suppliers
Swiss Railway Magazines
YouTube Videos

Switzerland – General

Aerial Views of Switzerland – A site containing over 4000 aerial views of Switzerland and expanding. Not strictly railway related but a number of stations can be found by searching the site (text in French)

Around Switzerland by PostAuto in 60 days. A website describing almost 60 Postbus journeys in English

Federation of Swiss Societies in the UK – Mainly for the Swiss in the UK, but may be of interest to those interested in Switzerland

Official Swiss Ordnance Survey Maps – These zoom to show sufficient detail to show station track layouts

Postbus App – Real time tracking of all Swiss Postbuses

Printed Timetables – Individual printed timetables can be downloaded from this site

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) – Timetables, route planning, ticket purchase and wallet, real time tracking of all Swiss trains and much more

Swiss Maps – map.search.ch – Swiss site providing mapping and aerial / satellite views of anywhere in Switzerland

Swiss Maps – Site with various online maps of Switzerland (& other countries) – World of Maps

Switzerland Railways Maximum Speed Map – Line information across the Swiss Rail network

Switzerland Tourism (My Switzerland) – home page. There is a facility on the web site to subscribe to a monthly news letter sent out by e-mail

Swiss Travel System – UK site of Swiss travel system (STS) – full details of travel passes, etc

Swiss Web Cams – Site linking to webcams all over Switzerland (text in German)

General Swiss Transport Sites

Bahnonline.ch – On-line portal for Swiss railway news – in German.

GEOPS – Live actual location map of train, bus, cable cars etc. in real time, covers much of Europe but can be zoomed in to individual locations.

Listings of Closed Lines.

Open Railway Map – covers the entire world – zoom in to the area you want.

Signalling – Site giving details of Swiss & Austrian Signals – but see also thesignalpage for links to very many signalling sites.

SporenplanOnline – A Dutch site that has track diagrams for much of Europe. The Swiss plans are nor complete, but a large part of the country is covered. The area around Zurich is well worth a look! Also covers Austria, Germany, France & Benelux.

Swiss Graphic Timetables – These can be downloaded for the last twenty years.

Swisstrains – Real-time – but timetable driven – indication of the location of all train superimposed on a map or satellite images.

Swiss Union of Public Transport (VÖV/UTP) – A link to the Union of Public Transport (VÖV/UTP) site. (in German or French).

Operations and Disruptions on Swiss Railways – details of service changes and delays

Transport Related Webcams

Hotel Grishuna, Filisur – Webcam in realtime looking at Filisur Station.

Rigibahnen Webcams – Webcams around the Rigi Mountain, some featuring the railway.

There are many webcams around the RhB & Graubunden – this link takes you to Preda station.

RhB Livestream – Webcams around the RhB network shown in succession, timed to include the passage of trains. At times some of the webcams may not be working. This page also has links to the Landwasser Viaduct, Brusio Spiral and Albula Museum webcams.

Webcams  on the BLS Lötschberg Route .

Webcams on the Furka Bergstrecke.

Webcam at the top of the funicular from Le Chatelard on the way up to the Emosson Barage with excellent views across to Mont Blanc.

Webcam at the top of the Gornergrat with a 360 degree view.

Webcam above Winterthur Station with a 360 degree view.

Webcam at the summit of Pilatus with a 360 degree view.

Railway and Tramway Company Sites

Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe – Public transport in Basel.

Bern Lotschberg Simplon (BLS) – home page.

Brienz – Rothorn – Bahn (BRB) – home page.

Brünig Bahn  (Die Zentralbahn  SBB) – home page.

Chemins de Fer du Jura – home page in French

Dampfbahn Furka – Bergstrecke (DFB) – home page.

Diesel Crew of the DFB – home page –information about the DFB Diesels, webcams etc.

DLM – Swiss manufacturer of modern steam locomotives.

Forchbahn (FB) – home page (in German only).

Jungfraubahnen – home page.

Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) – home page including the Gonergrat – Monte Rosa – Bahnen (GGB).

Montreux Oberland Bernois (MOB) – including Golden Pass services between Interlaken, Zweisimmen and Montreux

Oensingen – Balsthal Bahn – home page in German

Rhätische Bahn (RhB) – home page.

Transports de la Région Morges Bière Cossonay  (MBC) (in French).

Rigi Bahnen (RB) – home page, includes Arth-Rigi-Bahn (ARB) and Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn (VRB).

Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) – Timetables, route planning, ticket purchase and wallet, real time tracking of all Swiss trains and much more

SBB Our Trains  – all the SBB train types currently in use

Swiss Funicular Railways – ‘Funimag’ home page linking to a permanent section dealing exclusively with Swiss funicular railways.

Swiss Narrow Gauge Railways – ‘Rail-Info’ home page containing much information and many links.

Transports Publics du Chablais – TPC – Narrow gauge lines around Aigle and Bex, plus several bus routes.

Transports publics genevois – Public transport in Geneva.

Verkehrsbetriebe Bern – Public transport in Bern.

ZVV – Public transport in Zurich

Preserved Railways, Tramways and Museums

Association Neuchâteloise des Amis du Tramway (ANAT) – home page in English with details of regular operations.

Bahnoldtimer – Swiss, German language site that gives an overview of all the Swiss mesueum railways and tramways and their events.  This site is operated by Club 1889.  

Blonay-Chamby (BC) – official home page (in English, French & German). Fully timetabled preserved metre-gauge museum railway above Vevey and Lac Leman. Electric traction, and steam on summer weekends when sheds are also open.

Brünig Dampfbahn (BDB) –  this is the new name for the Ballenberg Dampfbahn and reflects the fact that the Ballenberg Railway will never be built but that steam will return to the Brünig in 2022.

Dampfbahn Bern – Bern area steam events.

Locorama – Museum on the site of part of the old Romanshorn loco depot.

MGB Historic –  site covering the historic stock of the MGB.

RhB Historic – includes a downloadable version of their annual magazine, “Die Bündner Kulturbahn”

RhB Steam / Dampfvereinrhb – German language site covering RhB steam.

RhB Albula Museum  in Bergün

SBB Historic – SBB’s historic fleet, including detials of special trains and events.

Swiss Classic Train – Restored stock used on various tours.

Swiss Industrial Heritage – Leisure and educational activities relating to the history of technology and industrial culture in Switzerland.

Swiss Vapeur Parc – located at Le Bouveret, one of Europe’s most magnificent miniature railway layouts .

Swiss Transport Museum (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz), Luzern – home page.

Tram Museum Zurich (TMZ) – home page in German giving details of their fleet and their new museum at Burgwies.

Verein Historische Eisenbahn Emmental (VHE) – home page in German.

Ships

Lake Brienz and Thun Navigation (BLS) home page

Lake Geneva Navigation Company (CGN) home page

Lake Lugano Navigation home page

Lake Luzern Navigation Company (SGV) – home page.

Foundation for Paddle Steamers Worldwide – Huge database of paddle steamer information.

Enthusiast Sites

Austro-Swiss Railway site – an Austrian site produced by Roland Smiderkal giving much detail of Austrian and Swiss signalling.

BahnCH Discussion Group – a Swiss administered discussion group in German. Details of how to subscribe are shown at the site.

http://www.bahnbilder-von-max.ch/sbb/index.html –a site with many photographs of Swiss Railways – text is in German.

Brian Nixon’s RhB Photo Site – a South African site devoted to information and photographs on the RhB.

Carl Waldis’ site about the Gotthard

Enthusiasts Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe (Swiss pages) – general information.

Enthusiasts Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe (Swiss pages) – lines with obscure and sparse passenger services.

MAPO’s Eisenbahnseite – Compiled by Maurizio Polier with over 3000 photographs mainly RhB as well as some fine drawings for modellers and excellent links (in German ).

RhB – A RhB webpage with links to things of interest to enthusiastics including loco allocations.

Sporenplan site – a Dutch produced site with a number of excellent Swiss schematic railway plans in Dutch only – click on the map for the Swiss section.

Hand Drawn Track Plans of Swiss Stations and much more in German.

X- Rail site – a site compiled by Stefan Kyburz giving excellent technical detail of locomotives and rolling stock as well as photographs of the MOB, GFM and RhB railways (in German). (Tip: click on the loco to get the start page) .

Zürich trams – a site specialising in Zürich trams but with news from other tram and light rail networks in Switzerland

Modelling

Albula-Bahn–Club – model railway club with a large Hom layout in Bergűn Museum.

BEMO Discussion Group – an independent discussion group conducted in English primarily for those interested in prototype and model Swiss narrow gauge railways. Details of how to subscribe are shown at the site.

East Surrey N-gauge Group – a group within the N Gauge Society Worldwide which features on its website a Swiss N Gauge layout currently undergoing major restoration.

Maloja – an RhB inspired layout owned by one of our members.

Modellbahn-Meiringen – this is the website of the re-constructed Om RhB/FO layout that was originally near to Interlaken West Station

Model Railway Club – The Model Railway Club, based in London, is recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest model railway society in the world, having been formed in 1910, hence being known as ‘The MRC’

RhB Discussion Forum – Model and Prototype. Details of how to join are on the site

Societies

The Railway Club Directory – a directory that comprehensively covers all of the following – Traditional Railway Societies, Heritage Railways, Locomotive Societies and Model Railway Clubs. The book version of the directory is available to purchace through our shop.

Austrian Railways Group – home page.   The ARG has closed but their website is still active at the moment

Benelux Railways Society – home page.

Eisenbahn Amateur – home page (in German). The SVEA is the association of 88 railway clubs in Switzerland to which the SRS is affiliated.

French Railways Society (Formally SNCF Society) – home page.

German Railways Society – home page.

Italian Railways Society – home page .

The Light Rail Transit Association – home page.

 N Gauge Society Worldwide – an area group of the N Gauge Society .

Scandinavian Railways Society – home page.

Transport Ticket Society – A world-wide association of students of tickets and fare-collection systems.

Model Suppliers

BEMO – manufacturers of HOm & HOe (with some HO and N) gauge model railways in Swiss and German outline. The site has illustrations, but the text is only in German.

Gerald Savine – Swiss railway paintings and limited edition prints .

Great Eastern Transport Films – New company producing mainly UK films but with some Swiss DVDs. Owned by an SRS member.

Hag – Swiss manufacturer of model railways.

Jason Sargerson –  A SRS members who writes and publishes his own books about Swiss Railways and butterflies

MITV – the only Company that specialises in making exclusively Swiss travel and rail videos. Chris and Sue have now retired but all their DVDs are available from the SRS On-Line Shop.

Perren Films  – Produce cab rides of Swiss lines. There aim is to produce a cab ride of every Swiss line.

Mixmediastore – The web shop of Van den Burg beeldproductions for books, videos and DVDs. A Netherlands based site and although the link is to the English pages, the site is also in Dutch and German. 

REOS Image Productions – DVDs, videos and photo CDs of trains, specialising in Swiss Railways. A Netherlands based site, REOS have now stopped producing and selling DVDs. All the REOS videos will be on YouTube and are linked from the site home page.

Rittech – Specialist dealer in brass models in all gauges both new and pre-used. Swiss based but fluent in English, French, German and Italian. The site has a downloadable catalogue which is regularly updated.

Studer Modelling Plans – A source of plans for a wide range of Swiss (and other) locomotives, coaches and wagons. The site is is German with links to English, French and Italian language pages.

Switzerland Travel Centre (STC) Subsidiary of SBB and suppliers of Swiss Travel Passes in the UK  who give 10% discount to SRS on their members on their package holidays – details here.

The Swiss Holiday Company – Tailor-made Swiss holidays with a choice of resorts, hotels and scenic rail journeys. A 5% discount is offered to Society members.

Transport Store – Online bookshop including substantial number of Swiss titles.

Swiss Railway Magazines

Loki – Das Schweizer Modellbahnmagazin. It is published monthly.

Eisenbahn Amateur – Monthly magazine of the SVEA of which the SRS is a member.

Modellbahn Schweiz – Monthly magazine for Swiss Model Railway Enthusiats.

Semaphore – published four times a year, dedicated to Swiss railways history.

Schweizer Eisenbahn Review – published 11 times a year,  it is the only railway specialist magazine in Switzerland.

YouTube Videos

The following have been highlighted by members as having relevant and interesting Swiss Content, click on the links to view the selected video

If you find any useful videos, please email the link to the Webmaster

Silent colour home movie at Bern HB in 1960
The Sursee-Triengen and shows Ed 2/2 No 1 in action together with a C 5/6 on the main line. This can be dated to sometime between 1960 and 1964
The Stans Engelberg line
Changes planed for the Bernina Railway to give a 30 minute interval service. The translation from the original German by Youtube has to be listened to – worth watching the video for this alone 
RhB Ge 6/6 I Crocodile- The great Film – from 1929 until today
RhB Ge 4/4 I – The great Film – from 1947 until now.
RhB Rhätische Bahn – Die Ge 6/6 II 707 mit Valser Wasserzug, cab ride.
RhB Rhätische Bahn in 4K – Ende RE mit EW I und EW II, Story Bremsleitungen.
RhB Rhätische Bahn – Ge 4/4 III Mix Potpourri der Züge von 2020 bis 2022.
RhB Historische Fahrten zwischen Filisur und Davos (Landquart) 2022/2021

Archive Swiss Steam from the 30s 40s and 50s
Chapter 1 – Left bank of lake Zürich and SOB
Chapter 2 – Steam around Winterthur
Chapter 3 – Steam between Landquart and Disentis (actually 1998)
Chapter 4 – Steam over Gotthard North Ramp (1956/57 mainly but also pre-war snow blower)
Chapter 5 – Jura region in 1942
Chapter 6 – Yverdon-Ste. Croix G 4/4 No 4 ‘Aliénor’ and SBB Mallet Ed 2×2/2 No 7696 on Vallorbe – Le Brassus

BLS: Brig > Bern Published Feb 7th 2015
MGB: Steam on the Oberalppass Published Nov 18th  2015