THURBO
Sign in to saveThurbo is a railway company with mostly S-Bahn-style services in Switzerland (cantons of Aargau, Grisons, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Zürich), southern Germany (states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria), and northwestern Vorarlberg, Austria, jointly owned by Swiss Federal Railways (90%) and the canton of Thurgau.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- transport company
- Official name
- Thurbo AG
- Country
- Switzerland
- Headquarters
- Kreuzlingen
- Parent organization
- Swiss Federal Railways
- Employees
- 472
- Legal form
- Aktiengesellschaft
- Official website
- www.thurbo.ch
- Image
- Stadler Gtw.jpg
- Speed
- 140
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- THURBO
- inception
- 2001-09-20
- track gauge
- standard-gauge railway
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Description
- Operation
- Former Mittelthurgaubahn
- RegioExpress
- Schaffhausen S-Bahn
- St. Gallen S-Bahn
- Previous operations
- Zürich S-Bahn
- Previous operations
- Rolling stock
- See also
- References
- External links
Thurbo is a railway company with mostly S-Bahn-style services in Switzerland (cantons of Aargau, Grisons, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Zürich), southern Germany (states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria), and northwestern Vorarlberg, Austria, jointly owned by Swiss Federal Railways (90%) and the canton of Thurgau.
It operates regional transport on a network of belonging to SBB CFF FFS, with the exception of the route Wil–Weinfelden–Konstanz, which is only maintained by the latter and except tracks in Austria and Germany. As of 2022, the company owns 110 Stadler GTW EMUs and carries 25.8 million passengers a year. The fleet will be renewed with Stadler Flirt Evo trainsets from 2026 onwards.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “THURBO” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.