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Correct. SBB locomotives that operate into Germany or Austria need wider pantographs. At first it was for passenger trains (like the trains Zurich to Munich where the Swiss locomotive runs on Austrian and German tracks as far as Lindau). But when SBB was sectorised SBB Cargo started to use locomotives for freight trains into (and within) Germany
I advised that it is in a Switzerland, where else are there ‘Switzerlands’ ?…
Sächsische Schweiz according to the rocks
<<“Sächsische Schweiz according to the rocks”>>
Exactly….although perhaps s bit devious. 😉
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxon_Switzerland
Slowpoke
Congratulations
Location is Bad Schandau, on the German/Czech border
<<“the German Pantograph is wider than the Swiss one. A Swiss on German
wires does “derail”, a Germon on Swiss wires would damage the wires.”>>
Not always
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This brach of Thurbo, who operates through trains between Engen and Weinfelden, Rorschach and Romanshorn via Konstanz and Kreuzlingen, joins DB. Passengers may be required to alight from the train at Konstanz and pass through a border control building on the station, while the empty train runs from one end of the platform to the other.
The line Wil – Weinfelden – Konstanz can also be operated with wide (DB) pantographs. “>>
Source:
http://www.bueker.net/trainspotting/lines_germany-switzerland.php
Must be fun to run that road
This link is relevant:
http://www.bueker.net/trainspotting/voltage_map_europe.php#5
Interesting to see some DC in France.
Slowpoke
1960man asked: Where else are there ‘Switzerlands’?
The town of Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, Central England, lies in a steep gorge and the immediate surroundings are known as ‘Little Switzerland’. There’s even a chairlift, very unusual for England. There are several other ‘Little Switzerlands’ in hillier parts of the UK. Stretching the point a bit, there’s an area of London known as Swiss Cottage.
John
The Matlock Bath cableway (to the Heights of Abraham) is a Gondelbahn not a chairlift, even more unusual for the UK (and it gets a brown cable car symbol on the M1 motorway!) I grew up near Matlock and walked up the Heights of Abraham with junior school classmates. It tired some of them out but I was already used to climbing up alpine peaks!
The other well publicised ‘Little Switzerland’ in Europe is ‘Suisse Normande’ in Normandy (France)
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