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The Re 460 (popularly known as the Lok 2000) series are modern four-axle electric multipurpose locomotives of the Swiss Federal Railways. 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 still manufactures shunting and rack railway locomotives in the country.
The series was introduced as part of the Rail 2000 project, a massive project to modernise and improve the capacity of Switzerland's railways. [2]
Upon their entry into service in the early 1990s, they replaced the Ae 3/6I , Ae 4/7, and Re 4/4I series units, and displaced many of the Re 4/4II series into lesser duties.
When SBB was split up on 1 September 1999, Re 460 079–118 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 200 km/h, for passenger service. The passenger division passed the Re 6/6 to SBB Cargo and bought 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 double-decker or EW IV trainsets (often used to pull InterCity and InterRegio trains in German and French language areas). Their freight role has been assumed by Re 482s.
They are maintained at Yverdon.
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 Agfa livery. Today no other loco type in Switzerland carries so many different liveries.
Almost all Re 460 locomotives are named, with the names being applied below the cab window at one end.
List of names:
Serial | Name | Period | Livery |
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Re 460 003 | Roger | 2008 | National Suisse / Roger Federer |
Re 460 014 | FORTICO | 21 Jun 1996 – 30 Oct 1997 | Holderbank Cement: HCB |
Re 460 015 | uf u dervo | 27 Jun 2004 – 9 Oct 2006 | Schweizer Radio DRS III |
Re 460 016 | TRAMONT | 11 Apr 1997 – 27 May 1998 | ABB / Adtranz I-V |
Re 460 018 | Louis Danzas | 23 Jan 1995 – 17 Apr 1997 | Danzas AG |
Re 460 018 | Leutschenbach I | 22 Jan 2005 – 5 Oct 2005 | Schweizer Fernsehen SF DRS II |
Re 460 019 | Miele | 17 Aug 1995 – 4 Nov 1996 | Miele: Miele Schweizer- und Euronorm |
Re 460 020 | idée suisse | 24 Mar 1999 – unknown | SRG SSR idée suisse |
Re 460 021 | Lovely | 4 Oct 1995 – 26 Mar 1997 | ZVSM: Milch. Die natürliche Energie |
Re 460 024 | Doris Leuthard | 22 Jun 2006 – unknown | Zugkraft Aargau II |
Re 460 032 | Leutschenbach II | 6 Jan 1997 – 18 Oct 2005 | Schweizer Fernsehen SF DRS Leutschenbach II |
Re 460 033 | Ascolino | 2 Sep 1996 – 31 Oct 1997 | Ascom verbindet Menschen |
Re 460 035 | Roger | 2015 | Helvetia Insurance / Roger Federer |
Re 460 040 | Helen Lüthi | 20 Apr 2002 – 5 Sep 2005 | 100 Jahre SBB 1902–2002 |
Re 460 056 | Leutschenbach I | 6 Jan 1997 – 5 Aug 2004 | Schweizer Fernsehen SF DRS Leutschenbach I |
Re 460 073 | DRS 1 | 12 May 2004 – 10 May 2007 | Schweizer Radio DRS 1 |
Re 460 079 | Morgestraich | 5 Oct 1999 – 15 Mar 2004 | ChemOil Logistics AG |
Re 460 079 | Stein am Rhein | 30 Mar 2004 – 20 Jul 2005 | 25 Jahre Verkehrsclub der Schweiz |
Re 460 101 | Magic Ticket | 2 Jun 2004 – unknown | SBB: Magic Ticket – Hopp Schwiiz |
On 20 February 2015, locomotive No. 460 087-0 was involved in a collision with S-Bahn Class 514 electric multiple unit 514 146–2 at Rafz.
Swiss company BLS operates 18 similar locomotives, designated Re 465. These locomotives have efficiency modifications, slightly higher power output and tractive effort and individual axle control rather than individual bogie control, but are otherwise identical to the Re 460. Numbered 001–018, all are named. [4] These locomotives are used for both passenger and freight duties by BLS. [5]
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The MTR Corporation of Hong Kong also operates two Lok2000 variants for its cross-boundary service from Kowloon, Hong Kong, to Guangzhou, 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 have ten double-deck carriages [6] and are equipped with knuckle couplers, instead of buffers and chain couplers. While the train has two locomotives, it is not operated in push-pull mode.
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