Thun railway station

Thun is a railway station in the town of Thun, in the Swiss canton of Bern. At the station, the Swiss Federal Railways owned Bern to Thun main line makes a junction with the other lines, all owned by the BLS AG. These lines are the Gürbetal line from Bern via Belp, the Burgdorf to Thun line from Burgdorf via Konolfingen, and the Lake Thun line to Spiez and Interlaken.^[5][6]

Thun
The station in 2011
General information
Location	Thun Switzerland
Coordinates	46°45′17.471″N 7°37′46.582″E
Elevation	559 m (1,834 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Bern–Thun line Burgdorf–Thun line Gürbetal line Lake Thun line
Platforms	1 side platform 3 island platforms
Tracks	7 (passenger)
Train operators	BLS AG Deutsche Bahn Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	Verkehrsbetriebe STI buses[1] BLS AG on Lake Thun[2]
Construction
Parking	129
Other information
Station code	TH
Fare zone	700 (Libero)[3]
Passengers
2023	34'000 per weekday[4] (BLS, SBB)
Services Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Bern towards Hamburg-Altona EuroCity Spiez towards Interlaken Ost Bern towards Basel SBB Spiez towards Milano Centrale IC 6 Spiez towards Brig IC 61 Spiez towards Interlaken Ost Bern towards Romanshorn IC 8 Spiez towards Brig IC 81 Spiez towards Interlaken Ost Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Bern towards Berlin Ostbahnhof ICE 12 Spiez towards Interlaken Ost Bern towards Hamburg-Altona ICE 20 Spiez One-way operation Preceding station Bern S-Bahn Following station Uttigen towards Fribourg/Freiburg S1 Terminus Münsingen towards Bern S11 Rush-hour service Steffisburg towards Konolfingen S21 Uetendorf Allmend towards Langnau i.E. S4 Steffisburg towards Solothurn S41 Schwäbis towards Hasle-Rüegsau S42 Schwäbis towards Konolfingen S43 Uetendorf Allmend towards Solothurn or Sumiswald-Grünen S44 Preceding station BLS Following station Münsingen towards Bern RE1 Spiez towards Brig, Domodossola or Zweisimmen Münsingen towards Biel/Bienne RE11 Weekends only Spiez towards Brig
Location Thun Location within Switzerland

The station in 2011

A train at the station

The quay at Thun station; the rail platforms are to the right

Wall painting in Thun station concourse

The station is served by various operators, including BLS, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and Deutsche Bahn.

The station also provides an interchange with the local bus network provided by the Verkehrsbetriebe STI. Ships of the BLS-owned fleet on Lake Thun serve a quay at the station, which they access via a navigable stretch of the Aare and the Thun ship canal.

Services

The following services stop at Thun:^[7]

• EuroCity / InterCity / Intercity Express (ICE): half-hourly service between Basel SBB and Spiez. Most northbound trains terminate in Basel; a single EuroCity continues to Hamburg-Altona and two ICEs continue to Berlin Ostbahnhof. Most southbound trains continue to Interlaken Ost; one train every two hours continues to Brig.
• EuroCity / InterCity: trains every two hours between Basel SBB and Brig; EuroCity trains continue from Brig to Milano Centrale via Domodossola.
• InterCity: hourly service between Romanshorn and Brig.
• RegioExpress: hourly service between Bern and Zweisimmen or Brig/Domodossola; the train splits at Spiez.
• RegioExpress : daily service on weekends during the high season between Biel/Bienne and Brig.
• Bern S-Bahn:
  • S1: half-hourly service to Fribourg/Freiburg.
  • S11: two daily rush-hour services on weekdays to Bern.
  • S21: weekday service between October–December to Konolfingen.
  • S4: hourly service to Langnau.
  • S41: hourly service to Solothurn.
  • S42: hourly service between April–October to Hasle-Rüegsau.
  • S43: hourly service to Konolfingen.
  • S44: hourly service to Solothurn or Sumiswald-Grünen.

References

1. "Liniennetz Thun" (PDF) (in German). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
2. "BLS route network" (PDF) (in German). BLS AG. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2024.
3. "Zonenplan Plan des Zones" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
4. "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Thun, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
5. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-12-30.
6. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 32. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
7. "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Thun" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2024.

External links

• Media related to Thun railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Thun railway station – SBB
• Interactive station plan (Thun)