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I beg to differ, I see and sometimes use diesel trains on a daily basis in .ch

But that's not to take away from Switzerland having a very high percentage of trains being electric only.

Which one? I use SBB and BLS regulary and i never noticed anything else than electric. (Really just wondering as i have no idea)

me too, I travel regularly from Basel to Lugano, daily in the Bern - Zürich, also using regional trains and never saw a diesel machine for passengers transportation, except for some rare unexpected cases.

I traveled some times from Zürich to Munich and saw that in the German side, rails have no electricity and then the SBB are forced to use a diesel powered machine, but except for that, I still have to find a connection where the diesel machine is necessary every time, I am curious!

Actually, due to increasing traffing from Switzerland to Munich, Deutsch Bahn decided last year to upgrade and electrify the connection from Lindau up to ( I think ) Geltendorf.

I'm based in Zürich, and the only time I've seen diesel trains is when I find a mountain railway or funicular.

Wintherthur/Zürich - i'd say i see at least 1 per day, mostly S trains. Some IC do the St. Gallen run with diesel at homeward rush hour.

Don't get me wrong, it's not huge numbers, but I see 'em.

Really never noticed anything, given i didnt look for it ether. Probably will in the future, kudos.

Actually, having bothered to pay more attention this morning on the way in, I noticed that the engines that I assumed were diesel were in actual fact electric; I had just assumed diesel from the shape and behaviour.

So, disregard my blathering, I stand corrected (hopefully!)

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