Talk:Rail transport in Switzerland
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It seems that the CIA world factbook data can't be trusted too much. The railroad lengths for Switzerland anyway were utterly wrong (and they were already wrong at the time of the factbook's last update). Now using official Swiss data. Gestumblindi 01:29, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Even the official data is suspect in claiming that all the narrow gauge is electrified. The Brienz-Rothorn-Bahn (800 mm gauge and 7596 m long) and the Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke "18100 m (actually 7400 m)" (I think that means total route 18 km of which 7.4 currently open) are both steam hauled. -- RHaworth 07:35, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
- Indeed; however, these two are the only wholly non-electrified narrow gauge lines in Switzerland I know of. Together approx. 15 km (which are currently open, otherwise 25,6 km); there may be an additional handful of kilometres of non-electrified sidings for various lines, surely not a lot, so I think that it is realistic to assume approx. 30 km of non-electrified narrow gauge railway. Thus it seems ok to me what the article currently states, 1'383 km (1'353 km electrified). Gestumblindi 23:09, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
