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Preserved Railways, Tramways and Museums

Association Genevoise du Musée des Tramways (AGMT) - home page in French with further useful links. They usually run 2 of their 3  preserved convoys in CGTE (pre-TPG) green and cream livery one Sunday a month from May to September - operating staff wear 1950s CGTE uniforms.

Association Neuchâteloise des Amis du Tramway (ANAT) - home page in English with details of regular operations.

Bahnmuseum Kerzers - Small museum with interesting range of railway and tramway material - Limited opening hours!

Blonay-Chamby (BC) - official home page (in English, French & German).   Fully timetabled preserved metre-gauge museum railway above Vevey and Lac Leman.  Electric traction, and steam on summer weekends when sheds are also open.  There is also an unofficial site in English, French, German, Italian & Spanish.

Locorama - New (April 2008) museum on the site of part of the old Romanshorn loco depot.

RhB Steam / Dampfvereinrhb - German language site covering RhB steam.

SBB Historic - SBB's historic fleet, including detials of special trains and events.

Swiss Vapeur Parc - located at Le Bouveret, one of Europe's most magnificent miniature railway layouts .

Swiss Transport Museum (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz), Luzern - home page

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Ships

Lake Luzern Navigation Company (SGV) - home page

John's "Swiss Paddle Steamers " - an excellent site maintained by John Bird with all the latest news and timetables of Swiss Paddle Steamers and links to other ship related sites

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Enthusiast sites

Austro-Swiss Railway site - an Austrian site produced  by Roland Smiderkal giving much detail of Austrian and Swiss signalling

BahnCH Discussion Group - a Swiss administered discussion group in German. Details of how to subscribe are shown at the site

BahnCH Eisenbahnfotos - an extensive collection of over 5,000 photographs. Mainly German text but some English 

Enthusiasts Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe (Swiss pages) - general information

Enthusiasts Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe (Swiss pages) - lines with obscure and sparse passenger services

John's Swiss Website - a member's site, including details of his Swiss N-scale layout and various prototype photo features as well as a number of useful links

MAPO's Eisenbahnseite - Compiled by Maurizio Polier with over 3000 photographs mainly RhB as well as some fine drawings for modellers and excellent links (in German ).

Railcolor - A site mostly in English detailing modern Alstom, Siemens and Bombardier electric locomotives which includes SBB Re 481, 482, 474 and 484 and BLS Re 485.  

Schmalspurbahn - A site (in German) with pictures of Swiss narrow gauge (seem mainly RhB)

SEAK - the website of the Schweizerischer Eisenbahn-Amateur-Klub, Zürich with news, photographs and specialist sections (mostly in German)

Sporenplan site - a Dutch produced site with a number of excellent Swiss schematic railway plans (in Dutch only - the link to the English site is temporarily unavailable)

Stefan Unholz' site - a Swiss member's site (in English and German), with a number of links including a list (in German) of Swiss model shops

Swiss Railfans Group - a "chat group" moderated by a Society member .  Contains much detailed information on various aspects of Swiss railways.  Membership of the group is not necessary to view the messages.

SwissRail Discussion Group - a Swiss administered discussion group in English. Details of how to subscribe are shown at the site

X- Rail site - a site compiled by Stefan Kyburz giving excellent technical detail of locomotives and rolling stock as well as photographs of the MOB, GFM and RhB railways (in German). (Tip: click on the loco to get the start page)