The Re 460, popularly known as the ''Lok 2000'', are a

class Class, Classes, or The Class may refer to: Common uses not otherwise categorized * Class (biology), a taxonomic rank * Class (knowledge representation), a collection of individuals or objects * Class (philosophy), an analytical concept used d ...

of modern four-

axle An axle or axletree is a central shaft for a rotation, rotating wheel and axle, wheel or gear. On wheeled vehicles, the axle may be fixed to the wheels, rotating with them, or fixed to the vehicle, with the wheels rotating around the axle. In ...

electric locomotive An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a Battery (electricity), battery or a supercapacitor. Locomotives with on-board fuelled prime mover (locomotive), ...

s of

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(SBB CFF FFS), similar to the Re 465 of BLS. Although designed as multipurpose locomotives, the Re 460 are now used only for

hauling Haulage is the business of transporting goods by road or rail between suppliers and large consumer outlets, factories, warehouses, or depots. This includes everything humans might wish to move in bulk – from vegetables and other foodstuffs, to c ...

long-distance

passenger train A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line, as opposed to a freight train that carries goods. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known as coaches or carriages) push-pull train, ...

s in

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(one

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to ). Variants of the Re 460 are used in China, Finland, India and Norway. The Lok 2000-family locomotives are the last mainline locomotives to be quasi fully developed and produced by Swiss companies. Locomotive construction in Switzerland has since been largely discontinued for economic reasons. Only

Stadler Rail Stadler Rail AG is a Swiss manufacturer of railway rolling stock, with an original emphasis on regional train multiple units and trams, but moving also into Rapid transit, mass rapid transit, High-speed rail, high speed, Inter-city rail, interci ...

still manufactures shunting and

rack railway A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails. The trains are fitted with one or more cog wheels or pinions that mesh with ...

locomotives in the country.

Assignment

The series was introduced as part of the

Rail 2000 Rail 2000 (German: ''Bahn 2000''; French: ''Rail 2000'', Italian: ''Ferrovia 2000'') is a large-scale project of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) established in 1987 to improve the quality of the Swiss rail network for the N ...

project, a massive project to modernise and improve the capacity of Switzerland's railways. Upon their entry into service in the early 1990s, they replaced the , Ae 4/7, and series units, and displaced many of the Re 4/4^II series into lesser duties. When SBB was split up on 1 September 1999, locomotives Re 460 No. 079–118 were assigned to the freight division, later becoming SBB Cargo. It was seen as an advantage to use all Re 460, which had been designed for , for passenger service. The passenger division passed the Re 6/6 to SBB Cargo and bought Re 460 079–095 on 1 January 2003, 096–102 in 2004, and the rest in 2005. While originally designed as a multipurpose locomotive, they are now used for passenger services only, often in conjunction with the

IC 2000 The IC 2000 is a Bilevel rail car, double-deck push-pull train, push-pull train in Switzerland and is run by Swiss Federal Railways, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) as part of its InterCity#Switzerland, InterCity service. Top speed is 200&n ...

double-decker or trainsets (often used to pull

InterCity InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the train categories in Europe, classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to InterRegio, regional train, r ...

and

InterRegio The InterRegio, often shortened to IR, is a train categories in Europe, train category for mainly domestic train services in use in some European countries, with Swiss Federal Railways operating the most dense network. InterRegio trains are semi ...

trains in the German and French language areas). Their

freight In transportation, cargo refers to goods transported by land, water or air, while freight refers to its conveyance. In economics, freight refers to goods transported at a freight rate for commercial gain. The term cargo is also used in ...

role has been assumed by Re 482s, Re 420/421 and Re 620 (previously also Re 481). They are maintained at

Yverdon Yverdon-les-Bains () (called Eburodunum and Ebredunum during the Ancient Rome, Roman era) is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Jura-North Vaudois District, Jura-Nord vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It ...

Naming and liveries

Like several other Swiss locomotives (e.g. Ae 6/6, Re 6/6, Re 450), almost all Re 460 locomotives are named. In case of the Re 460, the names are applied below the cab window at one end. ;List of Engine No. with their names: * Re 460 000 Grauholz * Re 460 001 Lötschberg * Re 460 002 Seeland * Re 460 003 Millieu du Monde * Re 460 004

Uetliberg __NOTOC__ The Uetliberg (also known as Üetliberg) is a mountain in the Swiss plateau, part of the Albis chain, rising to . The mountain offers a panoramic view of the entire city of Zürich (to the northeast of its summit), Zürichberg and ...

* Re 460 005

Val d'Anniviers The Val d'Anniviers (old name in German ''Eifischtal'') is a Swiss Alps, Swiss Alpine Valleys of the Alps, valley, situated in the Sierre (district), district of Sierre in Valais, which extends south of the Rhône Valley, on the northern slopes of ...

* Re 460 006

Lavaux Lavaux () is a region in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, in the district of Lavaux-Oron. Lavaux consists of 830 hectares of terraced vineyards that stretch for about 30 km along the south-facing northern shores of Lake Geneva. Although ...

* Re 460 007 Junior * Re 460 008

La Gruyère LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note *"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smi ...

* Re 460 009 Le jet d´eau * Re 460 010 Löwenberg * Re 460 011 Léman * Re 460 012 Erguël * Re 460 013 Nord Vaudois * Re 460 014 Val du Trient * Re 460 015 Dübendorf II * Re 460 016 Rohrdorferberg Reusstal * Re 460 017

Les Diablerets Les Diablerets is a village and ski resort located in the municipality of Ormont-Dessus in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The village lies at an altitude of on the north side of the massif of the Diablerets, , in the Swiss Alps. It can be a ...

* Re 460 018 — * Re 460 019 Terre Sainte * Re 460 020 Idée suisse * Re 460 021 — * Re 460 022

Sihl The Sihl is a Switzerland, Swiss river that rises near the Druesberg mountain in the canton of Schwyz, and eventually flows into the Limmat in the centre of the Zürich, city of Zürich, after crossing the Zürich–Winterthur railway at . It has ...

* Re 460 023 Wankdorf * Re 460 024 Rheintal * Re 460 025 Striegel * Re 460 026

Fricktal The Fricktal ("Frick Valley") is a region on Northwestern Switzerland, comprising the Laufenburg and Rheinfelden districts of the Swiss canton of Aargau. The region was known as ''Frickgau'' in the medieval period, ultimately from a Late Lati ...

* Re 460 027 Joggeli * Re 460 028

Seetal The Seetal is a valley in the cantons of Canton of Lucerne, Lucerne and Aargau in Switzerland. The valley descends from south to north from near Eschenbach, Lucerne, Eschenbach (in the canton of Lucerne) to Lenzburg (in the canton of Aargau) ...

* Re 460 029 Eulach * Re 460 030

Säntis At above sea level, Säntis is the highest mountain in the Alpstein massif of northeastern Switzerland. It is also the culminating point of the whole Appenzell Alps, between Lake Walen and Lake Constance. Shared by three cantons, the mountain ...

* Re 460 031 Chaumont * Re 460 032 — * Re 460 033 — * Re 460 034

Aare The Aare () or Aar () is the main tributary of the High Rhine (its discharge even exceeds that of the latter at their confluence) and the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland. Its total length from its source to i ...

* Re 460 035 — * Re 460 036 Franches-Montagnes * Re 460 037 Sempacher See * Re 460 038 Hauenstein * Re 460 039 Rochers de Naye * Re 460 040

Napf The Napf is a mountain on the border between the Swiss cantons of Canton of Bern, Bern and Canton of Lucerne, Lucerne. With an altitude of , it is the summit of the Napfgebiet (Napf region), the hilly region lying between Bern and Lucerne. It is ...

* Re 460 041

Mendrisiotto The Mendrisio District (, also called Mendrisiotto) is the southernmost district of canton of Ticino and of Switzerland. To its north lies the Lugano District. It is surrounded on the other three sides by Italy: to the east and south by the provin ...

* Re 460 042

Albis The Albis is a chain of hills in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland. Localisation A paronamic tower allows to observe the landscape. Picture gallery Albis - Balderen IMG 3281.jpg, Hiking trail from Felsenegg to Uetliberg __NOTOC__ ...

* Re 460 043 Dreispitz * Re 460 044 Zugerland * Re 460 045

Rigi The Rigi (or ''Mount Rigi''; also known as ''Queen of the Mountains'') is a mountain massif of the Alps, located in Central Switzerland. The whole massif is almost entirely surrounded by the water of three different bodies of water: Lake Lucerne ...

* Re 460 046 Polmengo * Re 460 047 Maderanertal * Re 460 048 Züri Wyland * Re 460 049 Pfannenstiel * Re 460 050 Züspa * Re 460 051 Staffelegg * Re 460 052 Eigenamt * Re 460 053

Suhre The river Suhre is a 34 kilometer long tributary of the river Aare in the Swiss cantons of Lucerne and Aargau. The river rises in Sempachersee (or Lake Sempach) at an elevation of 504 meters above sea level, and joins the Aare east of the town Aa ...

ntal * Re 460 054 Dreiländereck * Re 460 055

Lillehammer Lillehammer () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. Some of the more notable villages in the munici ...

* Re 460 056 — * Re 460 057

Val-de-Ruz Val-de-Ruz () is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelon, Fontaines, Les Geneveys ...

* Re 460 058

La Côte La Côte (, ) is part of the sloping Lake Geneva () north shore, stretching from Nyon to Lausanne in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Known for its vineyards, the area has views towards the high Alps across the lake. Communes * Mies * Coppet ...

* Re 460 059 La Béroche * Re 460 060

Val-de-Travers Val-de-Travers is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2009, when the former municipalities of Boveresse, Buttes, Neuchâtel, Buttes, Couvet, Fleurier, Les Bayards, ...

* Re 460 061 Wiggertal * Re 460 062

Ergolz The Ergolz is the main river in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland. It rises on Mount Geisflue in the Faltenjura mountains in the upper region of Basel-Landschaft, on the border with Aargau and Solothurn, and joins the Rhine at Augst ...

* Re 460 063 Brunegg * Re 460 064

Mythen The Grosser Mythen (also ''Grosse Mythe'') is a mountain in the Schwyzer Alps of Central Switzerland. The mountain lies in the canton of Schwyz, to the east of the town of Schwyz, and to the south of the village of Alpthal in the valley of the ...

* Re 460 065

Rotsee __NOTOC__ The Rotsee (previously known as Rootsee) is a natural Rowing (sport), rowing lake on the northern edge of Lucerne, Switzerland. It is regarded as one of the best rowing venues in the world. Description and location The lake and its sur ...

* Re 460 066

Finse Finse is a locality in the mountainous north-east of Ulvik municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Located on lake Finsevatnet, it is centered around Finse station, a railway station on the Bergen Line, which is the highest station of the Norw ...

* Re 460 067 Hohle Gasse * Re 460 068 Gütsch * Re 460 069 Verkehrshaus * Re 460 070 — * Re 460 071 Mittelland * Re 460 072

Reuss Reuss may refer to: *Reuss (surname) * Reuss (river) in Switzerland * Imperial County of Reuss or Reuß, several former states or countries in present-day Germany, and the People's State of Reuss * Principality of Reuss-Greiz and Principality of R ...

* Re 460 073

Monte Ceneri Monte Ceneri is a mountain pass in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It connects the Magadino Plain and the Vedeggio Valley across the Lugano Prealps at an elevation of above sea level. It provides the most direct route between the citie ...

* Re 460 074 — * Re 460 075 Schafmatt * Re 460 076

Leventina The Leventina District is one of the eight districts of the largely Italian-speaking canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The capital of the district is Faido but the largest town is Airolo on the southern flank of the Gotthard Pass. Situated to ...

* Re 460 077 Chunnel * Re 460 078

Monte Generoso Monte Generoso (also known as ''Calvagione'') is a mountain of the Lugano Prealps, located on the border between Switzerland and Italy and between Lake Lugano and Lake Como. The western and southern flanks of the mountain lie in the Swiss cant ...

* Re 460 079 Weissenstein * Re 460 080 Tre Valli * Re 460 081

Pfänder The Pfänder is a mountain in western Austria close to Lake Constance (). The city of Bregenz lies at the foot of the mountain on the shores of the lake. With its views over the lake and the surrounding mountain peaks, the Pfänder is one of ...

* Re 460 082 Ceresio * Re 460 083 — * Re 460 084

Helvetia Helvetia () is a national personification of Switzerland, officially , the Swiss Confederation. The allegory is typically pictured in a flowing clothing, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Flag of Switzerland, Swiss flag, and commo ...

''(from 12 September 2006 to August 2007:

Neftenbach Neftenbach is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Winterthur (district), Winterthur in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Zurich (canton), Zürich in Switzerland. Besides the village of Neftenbach itself, the municip ...

)'' * Re 460 085 Pilatus * Re 460 086

Ägerisee __NOTOC__ Ägerisee or Lake Aegeri is a glacial lake in the Canton of Zug, Switzerland. The two municipalities along its shore are Oberägeri and Unterägeri. The main tributary is the ''Hüribach''; the Lorze river drains the Ägerisee. Since 1992 ...

* Re 460 087 Säuliamt * Re 460 088

Limmat The Limmat is a river in Switzerland. The river commences at the outfall of Lake Zurich, in the southern part of the city of Zurich. From Zurich it flows in a northwesterly direction, continuing a further 35 km until it reaches the river A ...

* Re 460 089

Freiamt Freiamt is a town in the district of EmmendingenFreiamt', alemannische-seiten.de in Baden-Württemberg in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the ...

* Re 460 090 Goffersberg * Re 460 091 Werdenberg * Re 460 092 Fridolin * Re 460 093

Rhein Rhein may refer to: Places * Rhine, a major river in Europe () * Rhein, a village in the municipality of Morsbach in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Rhein (Ostpreussen), a former name of the town Ryn in Poland * Rhein, Saskatchewan, a village w ...

* Re 460 094 Rhätia * Re 460 095

Bachtel Bachtel is a mountain of the Zurich Oberland, located between Hinwil and Wald in the canton of Zurich. It lies approximately halfway between the Schnebelhorn (the highest point of the canton) and Lake Zurich. On the summit is the Bachtel Tower ...

* Re 460 096

Furttal Furttal is a valley region in Switzerland between Lägern and Altberg in the Dielsdorf district of the canton of Zurich. The area's name stems from the German word for ford (crossing), ford, or ''furt'', and is named after the crossing over the Lim ...

* Re 460 097 Studenland * Re 460 098 Balsberg * Re 460 099

Bodensee Lake Constance (, ) refers to three Body of water, bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhei ...

* Re 460 100 Tösstal * Re 460 101

Bözberg Bözberg is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Brugg (district), Brugg in Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It ceased to exist in 1873, when it was split into the two new municipalities Oberböz ...

* Re 460 102 Lägern * Re 460 103

Heitersberg Heitersberg Pass (el. 657 m.) is a mountain pass in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, Fran ...

* Re 460 104

Toggenburg Toggenburg is a region of Switzerland. It corresponds to the upper valley of the River Thur (Switzerland), Thur and that of the Necker (river), Necker, one of its afluents. Since 1 January 2003, Toggenburg has been a constituency (''Wahlkreis ...

* Re 460 105

Fürstenland Fürstenland or Alte Landschaft is the name of a historic territory of the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, corresponding to the modern districts of St. Gallen (without the city proper), Wil and Rorschach. It was a subject territory of the Abbey of ...

* Re 460 106

Munot The Munot is a circular 16th century fortification in the center of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. It is surrounded by vineyards and serves as the city's symbol. The ring-shaped fortress was built in the 16th century. Today, it is a tourist attr ...

* Re 460 107 Glärnisch * Re 460 108

Engadin The Engadin or Engadine (;This is the name in the two Romansh idioms that are spoken in the Engadin, Vallader and Puter, as well as in Sursilvan and Rumantsch Grischun. In Surmiran, the name is ''Nagiadegna'', and in Sutsilvan, it is ''Gidegna'' ...

* Re 460 109

Alpstein The Alpstein are a subgroup of the Appenzell Alps in Switzerland. The Alpstein massif is in Appenzell Innerrhoden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and St. Gallen. Despite it being rather low when compared to other Alpine peaks – the highest mountain ...

* Re 460 110 Mariaberg * Re 460 111 Kempt * Re 460 112 Thurtal * Re 460 113 Irchel * Re 460 114

Circus Knie Circus Knie (, ) is the largest circus of Switzerland, based in Rapperswil. History The circus was founded in 1803 by the Knie family and has existed in its present form since 1919, when it changed from an open arena to a covered tent. The cir ...

* Re 460 115 Heidiland * Re 460 116 Ostschweiz * Re 460 117

Zürichsee Lake Zurich (, ; ) is a lake in Switzerland, extending southeast of the city of Zurich. Depending on the context, Lake Zurich or can be used to describe the lake as a whole, or just that part of the lake downstream of the Hurden peninsula and ...

* Re 460 118 Gotthard / Gottardo

Advertising

Due in part to their large, mainly flat bodysides, Swiss Federal Railways were approached early on with requests for the Re 460 to be used as mobile advertising hoardings. Despite opposition from some quarters, the money that could be earned swayed the decision, and the first such locomotive, Re 460 015, was unveiled in 1994 in

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livery. Today no other loco type in Switzerland carries so many different liveries. :

BLS Re 465

Swiss company BLS operates 18 similar locomotives, designated Re 465. These locomotives have efficiency modifications, slightly higher power output and

tractive effort In railway engineering, the term tractive effort describes the pulling or pushing capability of a locomotive. The published tractive force value for any vehicle may be theoretical—that is, calculated from known or implied mechanical proper ...

and individual axle control rather than individual

bogie A bogie ( ) (or truck in North American English) comprises two or more Wheelset (rail transport), wheelsets (two Railroad wheel, wheels on an axle), in a frame, attached under a vehicle by a pivot. Bogies take various forms in various modes ...

control, but are otherwise identical to the Re 460. Numbered 001–018, all are named. These locomotives are used for both passenger and freight duties by BLS. RoLa Loetschberg

List of names: * 001 Simplon/Sempione (BLS AlpTransit/Lötschberg livery) * 002

Gornergrat The Gornergrat (; ) is a rocky ridge of the Pennine Alps, overlooking the Gorner Glacier south-east of Zermatt in Switzerland. It can be reached from Zermatt by the Gornergrat rack railway (GGB), the highest open-air railway in Europe. Betwee ...

* 003 Jungfraujoch–Seespiele * 004 Mittelallalin-Valaistourisme * 005

Niesen The Niesen is a mountain peak of the Bernese Alps in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. The summit of the mountain is in elevation. It overlooks Lake Thun, in the Bernese Oberland region, and forms the northern end of a ridge that stretches north ...

* 006 Lauchernalp * 007

Schilthorn The Schilthorn () is a summit in Europe, in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. It overlooks the valley of Lauterbrunnen in the Bernese Oberland, and is the highest mountain in the range lying north of the Sefinenfurgge Pass. The Schilthorn lies ab ...

* 008 Niederhorn * 009

* 010 Mont Vully * 011 Wisenberg * 012 Euro Tunnel * 013 Stockhorn * 014 Spalenberg * 015 Vue-des-Alpes * 016 Centovalli * 017 Schrattenflue * 018

Brienz Rothorn Bahn The Brienz Rothorn Railway (, BRB) is a tourist rack railway in Switzerland, which climbs from Brienz, at the eastern end of Lake Brienz, to the summit of the Brienzer Rothorn. The railway is 7.6 kilometres (4.7 mi) long, is built to 800 mm ...

Usage in other countries

The

MTR Corporation MTR Corporation Limited is a majority government-owned public transport operator and property developer in Hong Kong which operates the Mass Transit Railway, the most popular public transport network in Hong Kong. It is listed on the Hong K ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

also operated two Lok2000 variants for its cross-boundary service from

Kowloon Kowloon () is one of the areas of Hong Kong, three areas of Hong Kong, along with Hong Kong Island and the New Territories. It is an urban area comprising the Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon. It has a population of 2,019,533 and a populat ...

, Hong Kong, to

Guangzhou Guangzhou, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about nor ...

, China. They were introduced in 1998 when the service was operated by the KCRC; accordingly, the train is called the KTT, which stands for "KCR Through Train". These long-distance trains had ten double-deck carriages and were equipped with knuckle couplers, instead of

buffers and chain coupler Buffers and chain couplers (or couplings) – also known as "buffers and screw", "screw", and "screwlink" – are the de facto International Union of Railways (UIC) standard railway coupling used in the EU and UK, and on some railways in other ...

s. While the train had two locomotives, it was not operated in push-pull mode. The KTT service was cancelled in 2024, following suspension of the service from 2020 owing to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

, as well as the opening of the faster

Hong Kong Express Rail Link The Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link (sometimes abbreviated "XRL HK section") is a long stretch of high-speed rail that runs along a dedicated underground rail corridor linking Hong Kong to mainland C ...

in 2018. Both locomotives have been in storage since then; however, beginning in January 2025, one locomotive was placed on display at

Hung Hom station Hung Hom () is a passenger railway List of MTR stations, station in Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is an interchange station between the and the domestic services of the MTR network. This station serves the southern terminus of the East Ra ...

. The 46 Sr2 locomotives of VR ( Finnish Railways) are closely based on the Re 460, as are the 22

NSB El 18 NSB El 18 is a class of 22 electric locomotive, electric locomotives built by Adtranz and Swiss Locomotive & Machine Works (SLM) for the Vy, Norwegian State Railways (NSB). The class is a modification of the Swiss Federal Railways SBB-CFF-FFS Re ...

class used by Vy of Norway.

Indian Railways Indian Railways is a state-owned enterprise that is organised as a departmental undertaking of the Ministry of Railways (India), Ministry of Railways of the Government of India and operates India's national railway system. , it manages the fou ...

WAP-5 The Indian locomotive class WAP-5 is a class of electric locomotives used by Indian Railways. The first ten locomotives were imported from Adtranz in Switzerland in 1995 and later manufactured by Chittaranjan Locomotive Works in India. On 3 Jul ...

electric locomotives are also based on the Re 460. The shape of the modified version of China Railways SS9 electric locomotives is similar to Re 460.

Accidents and incidents

On 20 February 2015, locomotive No. 460 087-0 was involved in a

collision In physics, a collision is any event in which two or more bodies exert forces on each other in a relatively short time. Although the most common use of the word ''collision'' refers to incidents in which two or more objects collide with great for ...

with

S-Bahn The S-Bahn ( , ), , is a hybrid urban rail, urban–suburban rail system serving a metropolitan region predominantly in German language, German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit syst ...

Class 514

electric multiple unit An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a number o ...

514 146–2 at .

References

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