Swiss Federal Railways becomes SBB (short for Schweizerische Bundesbahnen) in German but, since this is multilingual Switzerland, it’s in French and Italian too. So we also have Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses and Ferrovie federale svizzere, both of which are reduced to their initials. All this means that trains (and timetables, merchandise and tickets) are emblazoned with nine letters: SBB CFF FFS.
