Neuchâtel railway station
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Location | Place de la Gare 1 Neuchâtel Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 46°59′48.1″N 6°56′8.5″E / 46.996694°N 6.935694°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 479 m (1,572 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1857 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Neuchâtel railway station (French: Gare de Neuchâtel) serves the municipality of Neuchâtel, the capital city of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Opened in 1857, it is owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.
The station forms part of one of Switzerland's most important railway lines, the Jura foot railway (Olten–Genève-Aéroport), which is one of two routes used by intercity trains between Geneva and Zürich. It is also a junction for SBB-CFF-FFS lines to Le Locle and Pontarlier, and for the BLS line from Bern.[1]
Location[edit]
Neuchâtel railway station is situated at Place de la Gare to the north east of the city centre, about a 15-minute walk from the central pedestrian zone. The Funambule funicular links the station to the lower part of the town, near the university.
Services[edit]
As of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Neuchâtel:[2]
- InterCity:
- hourly service between Lausanne and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
- hourly service between Geneva Airport and Rorschach.
- InterRegio: hourly service between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Bern.
- RegioExpress:
- Regio:
- hourly to half-hourly service to Biel/Bienne.
- half-hourly service to Buttes.
- half-hourly service to Corcelles-Peseux.
- hourly service to Gorgier-St-Aubin, with rush-hour trains continuing to Yverdon-les-Bains.
- RER Fribourg S20 / Bern S-Bahn S5: hourly service to Fribourg/Freiburg or Bern and hourly service on weekdays to Romont.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Départ: Gare de Neuchâtel" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in French). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Neuchâtel railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Neuchâtel railway station – SBB
- Interactive station plan (Neuchâtel)
- Transports Régionaux Neuchâtelois - official site (in French)