Consolidating control in the Port of Switzerland

Posted by George Raymond on February 2, 2020

Some 1000 river-kilometres south of Rotterdam, the Swiss city of Basel and its Port of Switzerland mark the end of the navigable Rhine. The river’s waterway network is part of the Rotterdam-Basel-Genoa freight corridor, Europe’s busiest. PoS is a major import gateway for Switzerland whose backbone is its railway. The Swiss Port Railway serves PoS’s three Basel-area riverside zones in Kleinhüningen, Birsfelden and Auhafen. SPR has now replaced four aging interlockings and centralised control.

The Port of Switzerland and its renewed railway were the subjects of my article in the February 2020 IRSE News, the magazine of the Institution of Railway Signal Engineers.

George Raymond can be reached at graymond@railweb.ch.

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