Changing track gauge in Zweisimmen, daily business since change of timetable on december 11, 2022. The GOLDENPASS EXPRESS PE 4068 from Montreux to Interlaken Ost enters the station of Zweisimmen on meter gauge (photo from the rear) and the 4 wagons are changed to standard gauge at a maximum speed of 15 km/h. Fold-out rollers on each bogie, which run on lateral auxiliary rails, lift the car bodies so that the half frames of the bogies with the wheels can be moved sideways. The meter gauge locomotive Ge 4/4 # 8001 of the MOB has pulled the train from Montreux up to here, it will be uncoupled and moves into the stub track at the north end of the station. On this side, the Re 465 # 011 of the BLS with the interface car Bsi 96 85 8300 291-8 CH-MOB will couple (Schwab automatic coupler) to the train and push it on the standard gauge to Interlaken Ost. This 4 car consist with cab car (driving trailer) Ast # 96 85 8300 # 184-5 (first and prestige class, named "Shania Train" for the canadian singer and songwriter Shania Twain, leaving in Switzerland).), first class A # 194-4, second class B # 284-3 and cab car ABst # 384-1 (second and prestige class, named "Interlaken") (for the canadian singer and songwriter Shania Twain, leaving in Switzerland).
