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BERN, SWITZERLAND – The CFF is putting on 13 extra trains and adding cars to a number of trains between Thursday 5 April and Monday 9 April to handle the long Easter weekend traffic.
The additions will create some 30,000 extra seats, with the CFF noting that it wants to encourage travelers to avoid clogging roads, but that they should be able to travel seat, in comfort.
Most of the extra seats are on trains to and from Valais, Graubuenden and Ticino, the country’s biggest tourist regions.
CFF web pages with details on Easter traffic and extra trains
Job cuts at Swiss rail
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s national railway company CFF plans to cut between 300-350 administrative jobs in the infrastructure division, its spokesperson Reto Kormann said 20 November. It hopes to save CHF60 million a year. The company will not lay off anyone: the jobs will be eliminated by attrition and internal reassignment.
Links to other sites:Le Temps, Romandie News
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Cisalpino II, July 2009
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A Cisalpino II train made its maiden Geneva-Venice voyage Thursday October 1, leaving Geneva’s Cointrin Airport at 07:33 and bringing back its first passengers from Venice at 16:20. The trains have been running on the Geneva-Milan stretch since July, on a test basis, and with the positive track record of the tests, the company has moved to putting the sleek passenger trains into service as part of the regular timetable.
Cisalpino will operate the trains until 13 December, when the parent Swiss and Italian companies, CFF and Trenitalia, will operate the Swiss-Italian service.
Bern, Switzerland – The CFF Swiss rail company is set to spend CHF2.1 billion buying 59 double-decker trains. Monday it published the news in the Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce (le Feuille officielle suisse du commerce), launching the largest call to tender in Swiss rail history. The new trains, to be put in service by 2013, will be used for Intercity and Inter-regio rail service.
