Cisalpino

The Cisalpino was a railway company established in 1993 based in Muri near Bern. She was a joint venture of the Swiss Federal Railways AG ( SBB) and Trenitalia. In 2009, she ceased its operational activities. Cisalpino or abbreviated CIS was also the Zuggattungs designation of passenger trains operated by the company.

In Switzerland Cisalpino was a railway undertakings (RUs ) with network access license and passenger transport concession for cross- border trains between Switzerland and Italy, and Germany. In Italy you were both denied permits, which the company was fully dependent on cooperation with Trenitalia. In the case of strikes at Trenitalia Cisalpino organized usually a rail replacement bus service from / to the Swiss border.

The train crew was provided by SBB, Trenitalia and Deutsche Bahn. The ticket sales went through the participating railways and through travel agents. In Germany, the CIS trains were there collectively equivalent to the Intercity Express, that is, they belonged to the so-called Group A product of. The dining car of the CIS trains were operated by the Company Cremonini SpA from Rome.

The company transported 12.4 million passengers in 2007 and generated sales of 255 million Swiss francs.

On 25 September 2009, the SBB and Trenitalia announced at the timetable change on 13 December 2009, the closing of the operational activities of the Cisalpino. The international long-distance traffic between Switzerland and Italy as well as Germany is since that date separately performed again by the two state-owned railways. The reason the SBB and Trenitalia announced the for a long time no longer meet expectations, quality of international passenger train services on the North- South axis between Italy, Switzerland and Germany. The 42 employees were further employed by the SBB and Trenitalia. The Cisalpino fleet was divided between the two companies.

Lines and rolling stock

Cisalpino operation between Zurich and Milan, Florence and Trieste via Gotthard and between Basle and Milan via Lötschberg / Simplon vehicles as high-speed tilting trains. For further connections between Switzerland and Italy, the company sold a conventional locomotive hauled trains with Euro City metropolitan area car of the SBB, sometimes supplemented by modernized Eurofima and dining car of the FS. Overall Cisalpino had 30 train compositions and drove on a route network that stretched between the vertices of Schaffhausen, Basel, Geneva, Livorno, Florence and Trieste, 76 stations on.

The passenger car locomotive-hauled compositions had a uniform silver-gray Cisalpino paint, those of FS and a new interior. The dining car was converted from self-service dining car and offered next to the dining room ( with table service ) is also a bar Part of these trains (mainly those with dining car ) wrong about Milan addition to Livorno (via Genoa ), Florence, Venice and Trieste.

Between autumn 2005 and December 2007 by SBB Cargo rented Vierstromloks Re 484 were used in the cross-border flow Milan and Milan -Bern - Geneva. For the timetable change 2006 Cisalpino were repealed by ETR 470 the relation Zurich -Stuttgart.

The first of the fourteen early 2004 at the Franco - Italian company Alstom ferrovia ordered new high-speed tilting trains ETR 610 were set in July 2009 on the market.

Former fleet

• 9 tilting trains ETR 470, popularly called " Cisalpino Pendolino »
• 14 tilting trains ETR 610, " Cisalpino Due " ( are progressively being put on the market as of 2009 )
• Trenitalia and SBB rented EC trains ( to be gradually replaced by high-speed trains)

After the abandonment of the operation by the Cisalpino five were the ETR 470 tilting trains over nine through Trenitalia, the other four of the SBB. The 14 only partially delivered ETR 610 are split in half.