The maintenance, upkeep and servicing of a variety of installations are necessary to ensure the smooth running of rail operations. This include not just tracks, signals and railway stations, but also power stations, noise barriers and point heating systems.

SBB maintains a wide variety of installations:

• 3 networks: tracks, energy and telecommunications
• 7900 km track and rail flanks
• 756 railway stations
• 75,000 outdoor installations, including 14,000 points with 6,000 point heating systems
• 1100 rail crossings
• 6051 bridges
• 251 km tunnels
• 539 interlocking systems
• 8 marshalling yards
• 26,000 signals
• 222 km noise barriers
• 6 of its own power stations, 5 frequency converters
• 6 marshalling yards handle 121,000 trains and 1.6 million shunted carriages
• 450 IT applications
• 1 production plant for tracks and points
• 2700 track vehicles
• Several million kilometres of cable