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By:Peider SwissTrip
Dates:11/24/2020 - 11/24/2020
Album Info:Throughout Switzerland, 330 SBB Intervention employees ensure that unexpected events impact rail traffic as little as possible and that operations quickly return to normal. To do so, they have 16 special fire-fighting and rescue trains at their disposal along with a range of other rail and road vehicles.
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SWISS fire and rescue trains
Title:  SWISS fire and rescue trains
Description:  The Xtmas are self-propelled (diesel-hydraulic drive) and consist of a resque unit (with platform), a tank and an equipment unit. The tank and the equipment vehicles have each a fire extinguishing equipment on the cab roof. The maximum speed when traveling alone is 100 kph / 62 mph. The fire fighting truck has a water tank with 45,000 liters and a tank for foam extract with 1,500 liters.
Photo Date:  8/6/2020  Upload Date: 12/26/2020 2:18:47 PM
Location:  Arth, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB XTMAS(UNKNOWN)
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SWISS fire and rescue trains
Title:  SWISS fire and rescue trains
Description:  All cab cabins are pressure-tight and have a breathing air supply that creates an overpressure. In the cabs of the equipment vehicle and the tank unit (which are back to back as seen in the picture), a control panel for the fire extinguishing technology is additionally installed. The 4-unit trains have an extra rescue unit at the end for tunnel operation. Each of it can take up to 60 people or 40 and 6 on strechers. It has connections for the supply of medical oxygen to patients.
Photo Date:  8/6/2020  Upload Date: 12/26/2020 2:18:54 PM
Location:  Seewen, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB XTMAS(UNKNOWN)
Views:  132   Comments: 2
SWISS fire and rescue trains
Title:  SWISS fire and rescue trains
Description:  SBB Intervention is a professional organisation operating from 16 sites throughout Switzerland. Its employees respond to over 7,000 incidents each year, including technical problems affecting safety installations, fires and the evacuation and towing of incapacitated trains.
Photo Date:  11/24/2020  Upload Date: 12/26/2020 2:18:38 PM
Location:  Castione-Arbedo, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Locomotives:  SBB XTMAS(UNKNOWN)
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SWISS fire and rescue trains
Title:  SWISS fire and rescue trains
Description:  A US inspired badge of the rescue organisation at Melide station. Intervention’s sites are located in a way that enables intervention teams to reach any point on the railway network within 15 to 30 minutes. The fire-fighting and rescue trains’ teams have their quarters at these sites and are 7/24h on alert readyness. This way, they can be ready for action within only a few minutes even during the night.
Photo Date:  11/24/2020  Upload Date: 12/26/2020 2:18:43 PM
Location:  Melide, CH
Author:  Peider SwissTrip
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Views:  98   Comments: 0


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