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«Schweizarsky Tramway»: A second life for Swiss public transport vehicles around the world (Swiss Press Online 2025, by Fabio Flepp) - Swiss Press Award

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2025

Fabio Flepp

It all began with a colleague's vacation anecdote: "There were postal buses on the Greek holiday island! I wonder how they got there?" What followed was not a simple answer, but rather research that revealed that almost no Swiss tram, train, or bus ends up in the scrapyard. Many find a second life abroad. And there are even veritable "Swiss public transport exile meccas."

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