Swiss locomotive and railcar classification

Old system: Eb 3/5 no 5819 at Stammheim, 30 September 1984.
Same series, different systems: Re 4/4 II no 11218 and Re 421 379–9 at Zürich HB on 25 October 2009.
New system: Re 460 near Erstfeld, 16 August 2008.

For more than a century, the Swiss locomotive, multiple unit, motor coach and railcar classification system, in either its original or updated forms, has been used to name and classify the rolling stock operated on the railways of Switzerland. It started out as a uniform system for the classification and naming of all rolling stock, powered and unpowered, but had been replaced and amended by the UIC classification of goods wagons.


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