Spiez railway station

Spiez is a railway station in the town of Spiez, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is on the Thunersee line of the BLS AG, which connects Thun and Interlaken, and is the junction for the same company's busy Lötschberg line, as well as the Spiez-Erlenbach-Zweisimmen line.^[4][5]

Spiez
The station building in 2013
General information
Location	Spiez Switzerland
Coordinates	46°41′10″N 07°40′48″E
Elevation	628 m (2,060 ft)
Owned by	BLS AG
Line(s)	Lake Thun line Lötschberg lines Spiez–Zweisimmen line
Platforms	5
Train operators	BLS AG Deutsche Bahn Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	PostAuto Schweiz buses[1]
Construction
Parking	198
Other information
Station code	SP
Fare zone	720 (Libero)[2]
Passengers
2023	17'900 per weekday[3] (BLS, SBB)
Services Preceding station BLS Following station Thun towards Bern RE1 Mülenen towards Brig or Domodossola RE1 through to R11 Wimmis towards Zweisimmen RE8 Terminus Terminus RE9 Interlaken West towards Interlaken Ost Thun towards Biel/Bienne RE11 Weekends only Mülenen towards Brig through to RE1 R11 Reverses direction Lattigen bei Spiez towards Zweisimmen Terminus R12 Mülenen towards Frutigen Wimmis towards Montreux GoldenPass Express Interlaken West towards Interlaken Ost Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Thun towards Berlin Ostbahnhof ICE 12 Interlaken West towards Interlaken Ost Thun towards Hamburg-Altona ICE 20 Interlaken West One-way operation Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Thun towards Hamburg-Altona EuroCity Interlaken West towards Interlaken Ost Thun towards Basel SBB Visp towards Milano Centrale IC 6 Visp towards Brig Thun towards Romanshorn IC 8 Thun towards Basel SBB IC 61 Interlaken West towards Interlaken Ost Thun towards Romanshorn IC 81
Location Spiez Location within Switzerland Show map of Switzerland Spiez Spiez (Canton of Bern) Show map of Canton of Bern

The station is served by various operators, including the BLS, Swiss Federal Railways, Deutsche Bahn.

Services

As of the December 2023 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Spiez:^[6][7][8][9]

• EuroCity / InterCity / Intercity Express (ICE): hourly or better service between Basel SBB and Interlaken Ost. Most northbound trains terminate in Basel; a single EuroCity and an ICE continue to Hamburg-Altona and one ICE continues to Berlin Ostbahnhof.
• EuroCity: four trains per day between Basel SBB and Milano Centrale.
• InterCity: service every hour between Romanshorn and Brig.
• GoldenPass Express: 4 daily round-trips between Montreux and Interlaken Ost.
• RegioExpress / Regio: half-hourly or hourly service to Zweisimmen; hourly service to Bern and Brig or Domodossola; daily service on weekends during the high season to Biel/Bienne and Brig ; rush hour service to Frutigen ; service every two hours to Interlaken Ost.

References

1. "Liniennetz Spiez" (PDF) (in German). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
2. "Zonenplan Plan des Zones" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
3. "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Spiez, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
4. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
5. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 32. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
6. "Bern - Thun - Spiez - Visp - Brig" (PDF) (in German). 4 October 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
7. "Bern - Thun - Spiez - Interlaken" (PDF) (in German). 25 October 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
8. "Spiez - Zweisimmen" (PDF) (in German). 25 October 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
9. "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Spiez" (PDF). BLS AG (in German). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2024.

External links

• Media related to Spiez railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Spiez railway station – SBB