SBB-CFF-FFS RABDe 500 - Naming

Naming

All forty-four RABDe 500 trains are named after famous Swiss scholars, artists, writers, politicians, engineers, and architects. Each RABDe 500 bears the portrait of its namesake, painted by a Bernese painter Martin Fivian, in the first class coach No 3; in addition, plaques with short biographical information can be found at every entrance.

List of names:

  • 500 000 Le Corbusier
  • 500 001 Jean Piaget
  • 500 002 Annemarie Schwarzenbach
  • 500 003 Madame de Staël
  • 500 004 Mani Matter
  • 500 005 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
  • 500 006 Johanna Spyri
  • 500 007 Albert Einstein
  • 500 008 Vincenzo Vela
  • 500 009 Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  • 500 010 Robert Walser
  • 500 011 Blaise Cendrars
  • 500 012 Jean Rudolf von Salis
  • 500 013 Denis de Rougemont
  • 500 014 Max Frisch
  • 500 015 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 500 016 Alice Rivaz
  • 500 017 Willi Ritschard
  • 500 018 Adolf Wölfli
  • 500 019 Friedrich Glauser
  • 500 020 Jeanne Hersch
  • 500 021 Jeremias Gotthelf
  • 500 022 Expo.02 (Carl Spitteler/Hermann Hesse)
  • 500 023 Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
  • 500 024 Ernest von Stockalper
  • 500 025 Xavier Stockmar
  • 500 026 Alfred Escher
  • 500 027 Henry Dunant
  • 500 028 Francesco Borromini
  • 500 029 Eduard Spelterini
  • 500 030 Louis Chevrolet
  • 500 031 Louis Favre
  • 500 032 Henry Dufaux
  • 500 033 Gallus Jacob Baumgartner
  • 500 034 Gustav Wenk
  • 500 035 Niklaus Riggenbach
  • 500 036 Minister Kern
  • 500 037 Grock
  • 500 038 Arthur Honegger
  • 500 039 Auguste Piccard
  • 500 040 Graf Zeppelin
  • 500 041 William Barbey
  • 500 042 Steivan Brunies
  • 500 043 Harald Szeemann

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