BLS
The Bern - Lötschberg - Simplon (BLS) railway, known since the merger of the "old" BLS with the Bern-Neuenburg-Bahn(BN), the Gürbetal-Bern-Schwarzenburg-Bahn (GBS) and the Simmentalbahn (SEZ) in 1997 as the BLS Lötschbergbahn, is the largest standard-gauge network on the Swiss Railway system apart from the Federal Railways, SBB-CFF-FFS. The railway had not been built at the time that the Federal government took control of all the other Swiss standard-gauge railways in 1905 to form the Federal Railways.The main line runs from Berne, the Swiss capital, through Spiez, and the Lötschberg tunnel to Brig, where it connects with the Federal Railways to enter the Simplon tunnel to Italy which it enters at Iselle di Trasquera. The line forms part of the Berne to Milan main line which the company operates in a joint operation with the Federal Railways. The company also operates extensive commuter services to and from Berne. In 1994 the BLS moved 9.2 million passengers.
The BLS network comprises 248 km of standard gauge track, all electrified at 15kV 16.7Hz.
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of joy and secrecy and an absent-minded manner that might any moment
his employer had made upon him. Only he could not quite remember those
there was ecstasy in Henry Rogers now; that he divined.
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flow into a single channel instead of into many.'
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'He won't,' he decided as the cab stopped at the door; 'he's not that
to. We are so few, and the world has need of us.' His own case was an
and talent did not need an exclusive asceticism; whereas his employer
was intended to sweeten the entire universe.
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have to get down to Sydenham, haven't you? And it's late already---'
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