ABDe 4/4
The Swiss type designation ABDe 4/4 stands for four-axle electric railcars that are equipped with first and second class and a luggage compartment. The owners of railcars of this type were the Mittelthurgaubahn (MThB), Martigny-Orsières-Bahn (MO), Chemins de fer fribourgeois Gruyère-Friborg-Morat (GFM) and the Chemin de fer Régional du Val-de-Travers (RVT). The last built railcars of this type were largely identical and are referred to as EAV railcars .
In the narrow-gauge railways, there was this type of vehicle on the Maggia Valley Railway (LPB) and Centovalli Railway (FART), the Nyon-Saint-Cergue-Morez Railway (NStCM), the Bière-Apples-Morges Railway , the Chemins de fer fribourgeois (GFM) , the Aigle-Sépey-Diablerets-Bahn (ASD), the Chemins de fer du Jura (CJ), the Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans (CEV), the Montreux-Berner-Oberland-Bahn (MOB), the Lugano-Tesserete- Bahn (LT), the Birsigthalbahn (BTB), the Solothurn-Zollikofen-Bern-Bahn (SZB) and the Rhaetian Railway (RhB).
Many of these railcars came from the era of electrification and have since been demolished. In addition, the first class was abolished on some railways, the railcars then continued as BDe 4/4.
The RhB procured the ABDe 4/4 481 to 486 for the Arosa Railway in 1957 and 1958 . After the line was switched from direct to alternating current in 1997, they were scrapped; two railcars went to the Chemins de fer da la Mure, the rest were broken off.
See also: RhB ABDe 4/4 .