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Four pages are necessary to illustrate the variety of Swiss trains. Other pages show the Federal Railways, Rhätische Bahn and other private railways.

BLS unit at Zweisimmen In the days when the company was known as the Bern Lötschberg Simplon railway, unit 955 stands at Zweisimmen with the 14.20 to Spiez on 23 September 1983.
BLS Re4/4 187 at Brig Re4/4 no. 187 "Mund" in the classic BLS brown livery, at Brig on 24 September 1983.
BLS Re4/4 505 at Interlaken Ost Re4/4 no. 505, second-hand from SBB, is at Interlaken Ost on the rear of the 15.08 stopping service to Zweisimmen on 23 February 2016.
Class 465 at Spiez BLS carry a huge amount of freight, especially on the north-south axis between Bern, Brig and northern Italy. 465 009 and older loco 172 pause at Spiez with a southbound freight on 23 February 2016.
BLS unit at Burgdorf 566 220 at Burgdorf on 15 November 2008 with the 09.39 Thun to Solothurn. The unit is in the red livery of the former Regionalverkehr Mittelland, which was taken over by BLS in 2006.
Class 475 at Spiez Modern freight loco 475 401, a Siemens "Vectron", at the head of a northbound container train at Spiez on 17 March 2022.

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