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SBB RABe 511
The Stadler KISS is a family of bilevel rail car, bilevel electric multiple unit commuter trains developed and built since 2008 by Stadler Rail of Switzerland. As of 2016, 242 KISS trainsets comprising 1,145 cars have been sold to operators in eleven countries. Boarding is done into the lower deck. Name In the early stages of its development, the KISS was known as the Stadler DOSTO. This name was derived from the German word ''Doppelstock'', meaning "Bilevel rail car, double decker". This is still the name used for the Sweden, Swedish market because wikt:kiss#Swedish, "kiss" means "pee" in Swedish. Since September 2010, Stadler refers to the train as "KISS", an acronym for "''Komfortabler Innovativer Spurtstarker S-Bahn-Zug''", meaning "comfortable, innovative, sprint-capable rapid transit, suburban train". In Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) service, the train is Swiss locomotive and railcar classification, classified as RABe 511, while a newer version for regional services is clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slovenian Railways
Slovenian Railways (, SŽ) is the state railway company of Slovenia, created in 1991. Slovenia is a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Slovenia is 79. History What is now Slovenia received its first railway connection in the 1840s, when the Austrian Empire built a railway connection – Südliche Staatsbahn or Austrian Southern Railway – between its capital, Vienna, and its major commercial port, Trieste. Thus, Maribor was connected by railway to Graz in 1844. The stretch was extended via Pragersko to Celje in 1846, and further via Zidani Most to Ljubljana in 1849. A double-track line was continued via Postojna, Pivka, and Divača, finally reaching Trieste in 1857. Before World War I, numerous other railways were built. In 1860, Pragersko was connected to Ormož and further to Čakovec, Croatia, thus connecting the Austrian and the Hungarian parts of the empire. In 1862, a single-track railway (expanded into double-track in 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
