THURBO

Thurbo
Company typeJointly SBB CFF FFS and cantonal owned AG/SA
IndustryRail Transport
Founded20 September 2001; 23 years ago (2001-09-20)
Headquarters,
Switzerland
Key people
Claudia Bossert (CEO),
Werner Schurter
Number of employees
500 (as of 2022)[citation needed]
DivisionsPassenger
Websitewww.thurbo.ch

Thurbo is a railway company with mostly S-Bahn-style services in Switzerland (cantons of Aargau, Grisons, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen, Thurgau, Zürich), southern Germany (states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria), and northeastern Vorarlberg, Austria, jointly owned by Swiss Federal Railways (90%) and the canton of Thurgau.

It operates regional transport on a network of 658 km[1] belonging to SBB CFF FFS, with the exception of the route Wil–Weinfelden–Konstanz, which is only maintained by the latter[2] and except tracks in Austria and Germany. As of 2022,[1] the company owns 110 Stadler GTW EMUs and carries 25.8 million passengers a year. The fleet will be renewed with Stadler Flirt Evo trainsets from 2026 onwards.[3]

The acronym Thurbo (pronounced as Tour-bo in German) is derived from the river Thur (or the canton of Thurgau, respectively) and the first two letters of Bodensee (German name for Lake Constance), probably on the basis of the homophone turbo.

  1. ^ a b "Werte und Zahlen".
  2. ^ "Travelling with Thurbo: Rail network". Kreuzlingen, Switzerland: Regionalbahn Thurbo AG. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Neue Flotte nimmt Form an" (PDF) (in German). Thurbo. 6 May 2024. Retrieved 24 August 2024.