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It seems that the CIA world factbook data can't be trusted too much. The railroad lengths for Switzerland anyway were utterly wrong (and they were already wrong at the time of the factbook's last update). Now using official Swiss data. Gestumblindi 01:29, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Even the official data is suspect in claiming that all the narrow gauge is electrified. The Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn (800 mm gauge and 7596 m long) and the Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke "18100 m (actually 7400 m)" (I think that means total route 18 km of which 7.4 currently open) are both steam hauled. -- RHaworth 07:35, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)

Indeed; however, these two are the only wholly non-electrified narrow gauge lines in Switzerland I know of. Together approx. 15 km (which are currently open, otherwise 25,6 km); there may be an additional handful of kilometres of non-electrified sidings for various lines, surely not a lot, so I think that it is realistic to assume approx. 30 km of non-electrified narrow gauge railway. Thus it seems ok to me what the article currently states, 1'383 km (1'353 km electrified). Gestumblindi 23:09, 10 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Non-electrified standard gauge passenger line

There is one significant non-electrified standard gauge passenger line. The DB owned Rhine valley line from Basel Badischer Bahnhof to Schaffhausen is not electrified. This line follows the north bank of the Rhine, and is mostly in Germany. But, the two ends are in Switzerland, approx 2 Km at the Basel end and approx 15 Km at the Schaffhausen end. This article quotes 3,652 Km standard Gauge, 3,641 Km electrified. 3652 - 3641 = 11. I think this line has been omitted from the figures, possibly because it is not Swiss-owned. TiffaF 16:18, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oberalp/Bernina

I have tweaked a couple of lines: The article used to read 'The Oberalp is the highest railway pass in the Alps at 2033 metres'. I have changed this to 'The Oberalppass is the highest point on this line at 2033 metres'. I have added a sentence to the Rhaetian Bahn paragraph 'The Bernina Pass is the highest point on this line, at 2253m' as indicated by the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernina_Express. However the Bernina Pass article gives the pass height as 2328 - I think this is the summit height for the road, but the railway takes a lower route through the pass. Trimike (talk) 10:02, 24 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

the highest railway transversal in the Alps

What does this mean?

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