Ge 4/4

RhB Ge 4/4 I 607 ​​"Surselva"

RhB Ge 4/4 II 628 "S-chanf"

MGB Ge 4/4 82 with car train in Realp UR

RhB Ge 4/4 III 651 with self-promotion for the Glacier Express

MBC (BAM) Ge 4/4 22 with beet train in Morges

MOB Ge 4/4

AB Ge 4/4 1 with a shuttle train in Appenzell

Ge 4/4 is the designation of several Swiss locomotives that meet all of the following properties (the letter or number that stands in the designation for the respective property is printed in bold in brackets behind it):

• Narrow gauge ( G e 4/4)
• Adhesion drive ( G e 4/4)
• electrically operated (G e 4/4)
• four driving axles (Ge 4 /4)
• four axes in total (Ge 4/4 )

In 2008 there were 60 operational locomotives of this type in Switzerland, as well as one locomotive that is being refurbished; 4 locomotives have so far been canceled. These 65 locomotives are divided into

• 55 locomotives with locomotive bodies with driver's cabs at the ends
• 2 locomotives with driver's cabs and stems set back
• 8 locomotives with a central driver's cab

The locomotives are divided into the following series:

• Appenzell Railways
  • AB Ge 4/4 1 (1994)
• Transports from the region Morges – Bière – Cossonay
  • BAM Ge 4/4 21-22 (1994)
• Montreux-Bernese Oberland Railway
  • MOB Ge 4/4 8001-8004 (1995)
• Rhaetian Railway (45 locomotives in three generations) and Bernina Railway
  • BB / RhB Ge 4/4 81 later 181 unique piece, originally Ge 6/6, today at the Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway (BC), see below
  • BB / RhB Ge 4/4 82 later 182 (today as a museum vehicle for the Bernina Railway in refurbishment, locomotive with front end)
  • RhB Ge 4/4 I 601-610 (1947-53)
  • RhB Ge 4/4 II 611-633 (1978-85)
  • RhB Ge 4/4 III 641-652 (1993-99)
• Matterhorn Gotthard Railway
  • MGB Ge 4/4 III 81-82 (1980, for car trains Furka tunnel)
• Travys
  • Travys Ge 4/4 21 (1950, locomotive with stems)
• Aare Seeland mobile
  • ASm Ge 4/4 126 (delivered to LMB in 1917 as No. 56, with central driver's cab)
• Regional traffic Bern – Solothurn
  • Ge 4/4 60 of the former Worblentalbahn (WT) from 1924 with a central driver's cab. 1959 Conversion to a luggage railcar
  • RBS Ge 4/4 111–112 (1927, taken over as an used 1957 and 1967 from the Hagener Strassenbahn (Germany), with central driver's cab)
• Museum Railway Blonay – Chamby (BC)
  • BB Ge 4/4 81 (delivered in 1916 as Ge 6/6, converted to Ge 4/4 in 1929, delivered to BC in 1970)
  • + GF + Ge 4/4 75 (1913, handed over to BC in 1980, revised in 1988, with central cab)

In order to be able to differentiate between the different generations , Roman numerals are added after the designation Ge 4/4 . This shows that the RhB Ge 4/4 II is the second generation of the Ge 4/4 on the Rhaetian Railway. If there is only one generation to which the above properties fit, the Roman numeral is usually left out: The MOB Ge 4/4 is the only series of the type Ge 4/4 of the Montreux – Bernese Oberland Railway. There are exceptions, however: The only generation of the Ge 4/4 on the Matterhorn-Gotthard Railway is called MGB Ge 4/4 III , although there has never been another series. The reason for this in this case is that the MGB Ge 4/4 III is a further development of the Ge 4/4 II of the Rhaetian Railway. This different designation was chosen to make this clearer.

After the takeover of the Bernina Railway in 1944, the two vehicles 81 and 82 became the property of the Rhaetian Railway and were referred to as 181 and 182 from 1961. They were later resold. Today Ge 4/4 81 runs on the Blonay-Chamby museum railway, while the so-called Bernina crocodile Ge 4/4 82 is to be used again on the Bernina railway.

There were a few more Ge 4/4 versions with a central driver's cab and stems:

• Frauenfeld-Wil Railway
  • Ge 4/4 7 (1922, 1969 demolition)
• Verkehrsbetriebe Schaffhausen and Georg Fischer AG works railway
  • Ge 4/4 73 (1913, discarded 1971)
  • Ge 4/4 74 (1930, 1969 at SNB as No. 57, then 326, discarded in 1986)
  • Ge 4/4 75 (see above)
  • Ge 4/4 76 (1913, 1981 termination)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book by Claude Jeanmaire: The overland railway from Bern to Worb. History and rolling stock of two suburban lines in Bern. Pictures 54 to 58
2. ↑ Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway
3. ↑ Bernina Railway