as a vehicle of the original classification.

The class entered the BVZ fleet in 1960.  Both of its members were rebuilt in 1981-82.  From then onwards, both vehicles were confined to Zermatt Shuttle trains.  In 2003, shortly after the MGB had become both members' owners (following a merger between the BVZ and the Furka Oberalp Bahn), they were withdrawn from service and scrapped.

The introduction of the class
At the end of the 1950s, the BVZ recorded a strong growth in traffic, for which it procured new rolling stock.  The ABDeh 6/6, delivered in 1960, had the advantage, compared with the then current HGe 4/4, of being a passenger railcar that could be used just by itself as a passenger train, without any additional passenger cars. Our Story

In the Western Cape, nearly a third of children live in poverty. According to the 2012 General Household Survey, 30.6% of children (more than half a million) in the Western Cape are living in households with a monthly per capita income of less than R575 ($48 USD). One in 10 households goes hungry, which increases children’s chances of growth faltering, as well as being underweight and nutritionally at risk. Medical issues such as tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are also prevalent. One of the most impoverished townships in the Western Cape is known as Khayelitsha, which means “our new home” in isiXhosa.

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