Switzerland - Tilo

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Tilo stands for Ticino-Lombardia and it is a joint venture company running regional cross-border services in Ticino, the Italian speaking Kanton of Switzerland and in Lombardia, the northernmost province of Italy. Tilo is owned jointly by SBB, the Swiss Federal railways and by Trenord, which itself is a joint venture of the Italian State railways Trenitalia and FNM, Ferrovie Nord Milano. Tilo uses Swiss Stadler FLIRT trains of the Swiss class RBe 524 which the Italians call Italian class ETR 524. This is one ETR 524 FLIRT at the station of Bellinzona, in Swiss Ticino.
Picture from Bellinzona 5.7.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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A Tilo FLIRT ETR524 no.106 at its home depot in Bellinzona.
Picture from Bellinzona 3.11.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Tilo is a 50:50 joint venture of the Swiss SBB and the Italian Trenord, so it makes sense that a Tilo train has the logos of both of them at its sides. But it's not shown that Trenord is also a 50:50 joint venture, namely of the Italian state railways FS Trenitalia and of the private Ferrovie Nord Milano FNM.
Picture from Bellinzona 3.11.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Another Tilo FLIRT seen by its side.
Picture from Bellinzona 5.7.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Some of the Tilo FLIRT trains are six coaches long, some just four. A four plus six coaches long combination of two FLIRT units has here just arrived from Bellinzona and is stopping at the station of Lugano.
Picture from Lugano 5.7.2019 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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A five coaches long Tilo FLIRT at Milano Centrale.
Picture by Ilkka Siissalo 7.7.2019.

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This is the newest, more colourful livery of the TILO Stadler FLIRT trains. They are still Swiss trains, but have also an Italian registration.
Picture from the station Como San Giovanni in Italy 29.6.2020 by Stefano Bressanelli.

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Another view of the new TILO livery of the same train as above, but seen more from its front.
Picture from the station Como San Giovanni 29.6.2020 by Stefano Bressanelli.

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The very newest Tilo FLIRT trains have not only the new livery but also the newly designed more crash-proof front as developed by Stadler. Nevertheless, they have not received a new class number but are still called ETR 524.
Picture from Bellinzona 3.11.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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Two identical Tilo FLIRT trains, the first one in Tilo's newest livery and the one behind it in the previous one which was almost identical with SBB's paintings except for a couple of decorative tapings.
Picture from Bellinzona 3.11.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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A six coaches long Tilo FLIRT ETR524 116 is here leaving Tilo's home depot at Bellinzona and moving towards south. It's probably going to Lugano to start a regional service from there over the border to Italy.
Picture from Bellinzona 3.11.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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A similar six coaches long Tilo FLIRT ETR 524 115 stopping at the station of Lugano. On the left can also be seen a part of a Giruno train, one of the new low-floor bullet trains of SBB.
Picture from Lugano 4.11.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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One of the very newest FLIRT trains of Tilo stopping at the station of Lugano on its way to Giubiasco, Italy.
Picture from Lugano 4.11.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.

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This is a battery driven Zagro robot "locomotive" that can either be controlled by a driver sitting on the seat shown or remotely via radio control. It is used for moving Tilo's FLIRT trains in and out of the large hall where they are being serviced and washed.
Picture from Bellinzona 3.11.2022 by Ilkka Siissalo.
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