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Elevation
  
540 m (1,770 ft)

Opened
  
1860

Address
  
3011 Bern, Switzerland

Bern railway station

Other names
  
Hauptbahnhof Bern (not used anymore by SBB/Bernmobil)

Location
  
Bahnhofplatz, CH-3011 Bern, BE Switzerland

Owned by
  
SBB CFF FFS (Swiss Federal Railways)

Operated by
  
SBB CFF FFS BLS (BLS AG, originally Bern Lötschberg Simplon) RBS (Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn)

Line(s)
  
Olten–Lausanne line Lötschberg line Bern S-Bahn

Owner
  
Swiss Federal Railways (Swiss Federal Railways)

Similar
  
Zytglogge, Old City of Bern, Basel SBB railway station, Federal Palace of Switzerland, Einsteinhaus

Bern railway station (German: Bahnhof Bern) serves the municipality of Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. Opened progressively between 1858 and 1860, and rebuilt several times since then, it forms part of the Olten–Lausanne line (known as the Mittellandlinie in German) and is near the end of the Lötschberg line.

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The station is owned by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). Train services to and from the station are operated by the Swiss Federal Railways, the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon railway (BLS) and the metre gauge Regionalverkehr Bern-Solothurn (RBS). Trains calling at the station include TGVs, ICEs, and international trains to Italy.

Bern is the nearest station to the University of Bern in the Länggasse quarter. There is aa rooftop terrace on top of the station, accessed by lift from the subway by Platforms 12 and 13, with views over the city and to the Bernese Alps. Access to Bern Airport from the station is normally via rail to Belp station and then by connecting bus, but the first and last buses each day run directly between Bern station and the airport. It has an IATA Airport Code (ZDJ), as American Airlines codeshares on the Swiss Federal Railways service from Zurich International Airport in Zürich.

Between 1999 and 2003, the station was renovated and partially redesigned. It now contains Rail City, a shopping center open for longer opening hours than the other shops in town, and also on Sundays and public holidays, when most other shops in the city are closed. This is possible as the shop opening laws of the Canton and the city of Bern do not apply to federally owned real estate.

The station has 12 standard gauge platforms (numbered 1-10 and 12-13) and four meter gauge RBS platforms (numbered 21-24). Curiously, there is no platform 11, but there is a through railway track with no platform face between platforms 10 and 12. The station interchanges with many local bus, tram and trolley bus routes (operated by BERNMOBIL) and regional bus services (operated by PostAuto).

Trains outside bern railway station switzerland


Long-distance trains

The main long-distance routes served by trains to or from Bern railway station are as follows:

  • EC Basel – Olten – Bern – Visp – Brig – Domodossola – Milano
  • ICE Interlaken Ost – Bern – Olten – Basel – Frankfurt am Main – Berlin
  • TGV Interlaken Ost - Bern – Olten - Basel - Mulhouse – Dijon – Paris
  • IC Genève Aéroport – Lausanne – Bern – Zürich – St. Gallen
  • IC Brig – Visp – / Interlaken Ost – Bern – Olten – Basel
  • IC Brig – Visp – Bern – Zürich – Romanshorn
  • IR Genève Aéroport – Lausanne – Bern – Sursee – Luzern
  • IR Bern – Langenthal – Olten – Zürich – Schaffhausen
  • IR Bern – Olten – Aarau – Brugg – Baden – Zürich
  • IR Bern – Langenthal – Olten
  • RE Bern – Lyss – Biel/Bienne
  • RE Bern – Münsingen – Spiez – Zweisimmen / – Kandersteg – Brig
  • RE Bern – Konolfingen – Wolhusen – Luzern
  • RE Bern – Kerzers – Neuchâtel
  • RE Bern – Jegenstorf – Solothurn (narrow gauge)

    • Bern S-Bahn trains

    As of 2012, the station was also served by the following Bern S-Bahn routes:

  • S 1 Fribourg–Flamatt–Bern–Münsingen–Thun
  • S 2 Laupen–Flamatt–Bern–Konolfingen–Langnau
  • S 3 Biel/Bienne–Bern–Belp (from 21:00, replaces the S4/S44 as far as Thun)
  • S 31 Supplements the S3 on Mondays to Fridays in the Biel/Bienne-Münchenbuchsee–Belp section (since 11 December 2011)
  • S 4 Langnau–Burgdorf–Zollikofen–Bern–Belp–Thun
  • S 44 Sumiswald-Grünen–Ramsei–/(Solothurn–) Wiler–* Burgdorf–Bern Wankdorf–Bern–Belp–Thun
  • S 5 Bern–Kerzers–Neuchâtel/Murten (–Avenches–Payerne)
  • S 51 Bern–Bümpliz Nord–Brünnen Westside
  • S 52 Bern–Rosshäussern–Kerzers (–Ins–Neuchâtel)
  • S 6 Bern–Schwarzenburg
  • S 7 Bern–Worblaufen–Bolligen–Worb Dorf
  • S 8 Bern–Zollikofen–Jegenstorf-Solothurn
  • S 9 Bern–Worblaufen–Unterzollikofen

    • References

    Bern railway station Wikipedia
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