Brig railway station

Not to be confused with Brigg railway station.

Brig railway station is an important railway junction in the municipality of Brig-Glis (French: Brigue-Glis), in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. Opened in 1878, it is adjacent to the northern portal of the Simplon Tunnel and is served by two standard gauge lines. Another two metre gauge lines serve the physically adjacent Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station.

Brig
The station building in 2017
General information
Location	Bahnhof 1 Brig Switzerland
Coordinates	46°19′10″N 07°59′17″E
Elevation	677 m (2,221 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Lausanne–Brig Bern–Lötschberg–Brig
Platforms	3 island platforms 1 side platform
Tracks	9
Train operators	BLS AG RegionAlps Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	Postauto buses Local buses [1]
Construction
Parking	55
Other information
Station code	8501609 (BR)
History
Opened	18 June 1878 (1878-06-18)
Passengers
2023	20'700 per weekday[2] (BLS, MGB, RegionAlps, SBB)
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Visp towards Basel SBB EuroCity Domodossola towards Milano Centrale Sion towards Genève-Cornavin Visp towards Basel SBB IC 6 Terminus Visp towards Romanshorn IC 8 Visp towards Geneva Airport IR 90 Terminus IR Domodossola Terminus Preceding station BLS Following station Lalden towards Bern RE1 Terminus Eggerberg towards Bern RE1 Iselle di Trasquera towards Domodossola Eggerberg towards Biel/Bienne RE11 Weekends only Terminus Terminus RE2 Domodossola Terminus Visp Terminus RE2 Domodossola One-way operation Terminus RE2 Iselle di Trasquera towards Domodossola Preceding station RegionAlps Following station Visp towards Monthey or St-Gingolph R91 Terminus
Location Brig Location within Switzerland Show map of Switzerland Brig Brig (Canton of Valais) Show map of Canton of Valais

Brig railway station

History

Railway station in Brig-Glis

Service to Brig began on 18 June 1878; it was at that time the eastern terminus of the Simplon Railway.^[3] The opening of the Simplon Tunnel in 1906 extended the Simplon Railway southeast to Domodossola, in Italy.

Brig's other standard gauge line, the Lötschberg railway line, opened in 1913. It links Bern with Brig via the Lötschberg Pass, including the Lötschberg Tunnel. In 2007, this line was largely supplanted by the New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA),^[4] connecting (Bern and) Spiez with Visp, near Brig, via the Lötschberg Base Tunnel. Trains travelling along the NRLA line to Visp usually then continue on to Brig via the Simplon line.

Services

The following services stop at Brig:^[5]

• EuroCity/InterCity: trains every two hours to Basel SBB; EuroCity trains continue from Brig to Milano Centrale via Domodossola.
• EuroCity: four trains per day between Genève-Cornavin and Milano Centrale, with one train continuing from Milano Centrale to Venezia Santa Lucia.
• InterCity: trains every two hours to Romanshorn.
• InterRegio:
  • trains every half-hour to Geneva Airport.
  • three trains per day to Domodossola.
• RegioExpress:
  • trains every hour to Bern, with most trains continuing from Brig to Domodossola.
  • daily service on weekends during the high season to Biel/Bienne.
• Regio: half-hourly service to Monthey, with every other train continuing to Saint-Gingolph.

See also

• Trains portal
• Architecture portal
• Switzerland portal

• History of rail transport in Switzerland
• Rail transport in Switzerland

References

1. "Liniennetz Brig und Umgebung" (PDF) (in German). PostAuto AG. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
2. "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Brig, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
3. Stockmar, Joseph (1920). Histoire du chemin de fer du Simplon (PDF) (in French). Librairie Payot & Cie, Lausanne und Genf. p. 29. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
4. Swiss timetable 300.
5. "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Brig" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.

Further reading

• Moser, Beat; Börret, Ralph; Küstner, Thomas (2005). Glacier Express: Von St. Moritz nach Zermatt (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-057-2.
• Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2006). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). Vol. 1. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-157-9.
• Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2007). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). Vol. 2. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 978-3-89610-175-4.
• "Official timetable of Switzerland". Bundesamt für Verkehr. Archived from the original on 2014-09-28. Retrieved 2010-07-07. (in English)

External links

• Swiss Federal Railways Archived 2009-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Brig railway station – SBB
• Interactive station plan (Brig)
• BLS AG
• Official timetable of Switzerland Archived 2014-09-28 at the Wayback Machine