Figures
- Travellers per year (2010): 347 million
- Freight per year: 49.3 million tons (2009)
- Length of railway network: 3011 km in standard gauge (until 2005 also 74 km metre gauge)
- Stations: 824
- Stations open to passengers: 760
- Stations with freight traffic: 452
- Companies connected to private sidings: about 2500
- Parking capacity at stations: 23,685 cars
- Employees: 28,143
- Punctuality (2009): 87% of all trains with less than 3 minutes of delay
- Subsidies for operation, maintenance of assets and construction investments (2010): 2.603 billion Swiss francs
The Swiss Federal Railways rail network is almost totally electrified. The metre gauge Brünigbahn was SBB's only non-standard gauge line, until it was out-sourced and merged with the Luzern-Stans-Engelberg-Bahn to form the Zentralbahn, in which SBB holds shares.
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