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The continued operation of the S-Bahn Zürich system with more than 500,000 passengers daily will require more trains in the future, and therefore more capacity for their maintenance and storage.
On 7 November 2025, SBB selected Siemens Mobility Schweiz in a public tender as the supplier of 116 new double-deck EMUs for the S-Bahn Zürich and Western Switzerland.
On 28 November 2025, Stadler announced that it has lodged an appeal with the Federal Administrative Court against the SBB's award of a contract for 116 double-deck EMUs.
While WESTbahn's Class 4100 started passenger service on 12 November 2025, another new train is currently being prepared for this operator, this time again of European origin.
On 7 November 2025, SBB awarded Siemens Mobility a contract for 116 six-car double-deck EMUs with a top speed of 160 km/h, to be delivered in the 2030s.
Five years and six months after the official inauguration of the Léman Express, project stakeholders gathered on 12 June 2025 at Genève-Aéroport and Annemasse to celebrate a dual milestone:
The first of 286 FLIRT EMUs for SBB, Thurbo and RegionAlps has arrived in Erlen on 5 December.
SBB Cargo has reached an important milestone in the automation and digitalisation of railway freight traffic in Europe: on 8 November 2023, the BAV has granted type approval for the automatic brake test.
On 17 July 2023, following approval by the BAV (Bundesamt für Verkehr) SBB put the first six-car KISS double-deck EMUs of the new Class RABe 512 into service.
At the beginning of February, a Swiss consortium launched the DAC+ pilot train.
At the end of June 2022, Siemens Mobility announced that SBB Cargo International in cooperation with SüdLeasing has ordered 20 Vectron multisystem locomotives equipped with the new XLoad package.
On 14 July 2022, Siemens Mobility signed a contract with Reichmuth & Co Investment Management AG for 35 Vectron AC locomotives through its investment vehicle LokRoll 3 AG.
DB and SBB are further expanding the range of international passenger services between Switzerland and Germany.
On 31 May 2022 SBB, Thurbo, RegionAlps and Stadler signed a framework agreement for up to 510 FLIRTs.