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BLS Cargo AG, Switzerland |
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BLS Cargo was established in 2001 and is today the leading provider of private Alpine rail transport through Switzerland. The company benefits from a lean structure and focuses on block train business. The main emphasis is on international Alpine transit trains via the Loetschberg-Simplon and Gotthard routes. DB Schenker Rail Deutschland AG has a 45% shareholding in BLS Cargo. BLS Cargos market share in Swiss transit rail traffic is currently about 40%. |
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3/25/2010 Upload Date: 3/25/2010 4:19:43 PM |
| Location: |
Immensee, CH |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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486508 - BLS Cargo, Switzerland |
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A BLS Cargo intermodal train of Norfolkline logistics heads towards Erstfeld, where a DB Schenker (a shareholder in BLS Cargo) will supply a BR185 as second unit to bring the heavy weight train through the Gotthard tunnel towards Chiasso. There the BLS 486 will proceed alone to the cargo terminal in Italy. |
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3/12/2011 Upload Date: 9/17/2011 10:16:11 AM |
| Location: |
Immensee, CH |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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199 Comments: 0 |
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486 510 - BLS AG / Switzerland |
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Waiting for a new assignment of cargo to bring it over the border to Italy. |
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2/3/2012 Upload Date: 3/12/2012 3:08:40 PM |
| Location: |
Bellinzona, CH |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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128 Comments: 0 |
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486 503 - BLS Cargo AG, Switzerland |
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BLS Cargo needed more BR186 with NL certification for its new freight link from the Netherland to Italy and therefore took over several BR186 from Lokomotion Gesellschaft für Schienentraktion mbH and traded in some of its own Re486 which have no package for the Netherlands. |
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3/29/2014 Upload Date: 4/4/2014 3:31:56 PM |
| Location: |
Munich-Grafing, DE |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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107 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
486 501 - BLS Cargo, Switzerland |
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In less than a year, you want be able to see this anymore. In June 2016 first the freight train uses the new basic Gotthard tunnel with a length of 57 km / 35 miles. Later the passenger trains are going to use it too. Second unit is leased from Railpool. |
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8/28/2015 Upload Date: 9/17/2015 5:13:58 PM |
| Location: |
Amsteg - Silenen, CH |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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102 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
486 501 - BLS Cargo AG / Switzerland |
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A BLS 486 together with a rented in Lokomotion BR 186 pulling an intermodal train over the Gotthard route to Italy. |
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8/28/2015 Upload Date: 12/14/2015 12:11:13 PM |
| Location: |
Amsteg-Silenen, CH |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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106 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
486 504 - BLS Cargo AG / Switzerland |
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To let a ICN 500 passenger train to pass, the container train stopped at the siding of Lavorgo station. |
| Photo Date: |
12/3/2015 Upload Date: 12/14/2015 12:11:54 PM |
| Location: |
Lavorgo, CH |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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85 Comments: 1 |
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| Title: |
486 504 - BLS Cargo AG / Switzerland |
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A double headed intermodal consist with a Re 486 in lead of the BLS/Railpool BR 186, see picture on arrival in Erstfeld. |
| Photo Date: |
12/3/2015 Upload Date: 12/13/2015 12:05:56 PM |
| Location: |
Lavorgo, CH |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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70 Comments: 0 |
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| Title: |
Swiss Alpinists on their way |
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With a load of truck trailers the head Class 486 with a Vectron Class 475 on the way. |
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1/21/2020 Upload Date: 4/5/2020 12:20:17 PM |
| Location: |
Bollodingen, CH |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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213 Comments: 0 |
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Swiss Alpinists on their way |
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A Class BR 486, with approval for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy, shows a climber as "Alpinist" design. |
| Photo Date: |
1/21/2020 Upload Date: 4/5/2020 12:20:27 PM |
| Location: |
Riedtwil, CH |
| Author: |
Peider SwissTrip |
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| Locomotives: |
BLS 486(UNKNOWN) |
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244 Comments: 1 |
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