Cisalpino
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1993 |
| resolution | December 13, 2009 |
| Seat | Muri near Bern , Switzerland |
| management | Alain Barbey ( CEO ) Damiano Luigi Della Ca ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 42 (own) (December 31, 2007) |
| sales | 255 million CHF (2007) |
| Branch | Transport company |
The Cisalpino AG (lat. This side of the Alps , southern side of the Alps ) was a railway company from 1993 to 2009 with headquarters in Muri near Bern and a joint venture of SBB and Trenitalia . Cisalpino, abbreviated to CIS , was also the train type designation for the passenger trains operated by the company .
Companies
In Switzerland , Cisalpino was a railway company with a network access permit and a passenger transport license for cross-border trains between Switzerland and Italy and to Germany . In Italy, both permits were denied, so the company was completely dependent on the cooperation with Trenitalia. In the event of strikes at Trenitalia, Cisalpino AG usually organized rail replacement services from / to the Swiss border.
The train crew was provided by SBB, Trenitalia and Deutsche Bahn . Tickets were sold through the participating railways and travel agencies. In Germany, the CIS trains were present collectively the Intercity Express assimilated, that is, they were part of the so-called category A to. The dining cars on the CIS trains were operated by the Rome -based company Cremonini SpA .
In 2007, the company carried 12.4 million passengers and generated sales of 255 million Swiss francs.
On September 25, 2009, SBB and Trenitalia announced that Cisalpino AG would cease operations for the timetable change on December 13, 2009. International long- distance passenger traffic between Switzerland and Italy and to Germany has been carried out separately by the two state railways since that date. The reason given by SBB and Trenitalia was that the quality of international passenger transport connections on the north-south axis between Italy, Switzerland and Germany had not been in line with expectations for a long time. The 42 employees continued to be employed by SBB and Trenitalia. The Cisalpino fleet was divided between the two companies.
Tracks and vehicles
Cisalpino operated high-speed tilting trains as vehicles between Zurich and Milan , Florence and Trieste via Gotthard and between Basel and Milan via Lötschberg / Simplon . For further connections between Switzerland and Italy, the company used conventional trains hauled by locomotives with EuroCity open-plan cars from SBB, partly supplemented by modernized Eurofima and dining cars from FS. In total, Cisalpino had 30 train compositions and drove to 76 stations on a route network that stretched between the corner points of Schaffhausen, Basel, Geneva, Livorno, Florence and Trieste.
The passenger cars of the locomotive-hauled compositions had a uniform silver-gray Cisalpino paintwork, those of the FS also had a new interior. The dining cars were converted from self-service dining cars and, in addition to the dining room (with service), also had a bar. Some of these trains (mainly those with dining cars) ran from Milan to Livorno (via Genoa), Florence, Venice and Trieste.
Between autumn 2005 and December 2007 four-current locomotives Re 484 rented by SBB Cargo were used in the cross-border route Milan – Bern and Milan – Geneva. As early as the 2006 timetable change, the Cisalpino trains with ETR 470 on the Zurich – Stuttgart route were canceled.
The first of the fourteen new ETR 610 high-speed tilting trains ordered from the Franco-Italian company Alstom Ferrovia at the beginning of 2004 were put into service in July 2009.
- Former vehicles
- 9 tilting trains ETR 470 , colloquially Cisalpino Pendolino
- 14 tilting trains ETR 610 , colloquially Cisalpino Due
- EuroCity trains rented by Trenitalia and SBB
After the end of operations, five ETR-470 tilting trains were taken over by Trenitalia, the other four were split in half by SBB and ETR 610.
literature
- Cisalpino AG on expansion course . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 4/2004, ISSN 1421-2811 , pp. 158–161.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SBB, press release of September 25, 2009 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ New Cisalpino: Successful maiden voyage . Tagesanzeiger , July 20, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2009.
- ↑ Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group, Annual Report 2012, page 18
