Bern railway station

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The Bern railway station is the station of the Swiss Federal Railways ( SBB), the Bern -Lötschberg- Simplon AG (BLS ) and the narrow-gauge railway regional Bern-Solothurn (RBS ) and the hub of the suburban railway network of the city of Bern, Switzerland. He is according to the Zurich Main Station is the second largest station in Switzerland.

• 6.1 Highway
• 6.2 Bern S-Bahn (lines from 2010 timetable )
• 6.3 Discontinued destinations (selection)

Location

History

Temporary station Wylerfeld of 1857

The 1857 built for the Swiss Central Railway ( SCB) railway Olten- Bern created first railway station of Bern was out of town in Wylerfeld. From there, the travelers were transported by stagecoach in the city.

Temporary station of 1858

On November 15, 1858, the so-called Red Bridge was completed over the Aare, and the trains could move into the Bern railway station. Since the station building was still under construction, the travelers were provisionally released in the goods shed.

Station from 1860

The built next to the Church of Holy Spirit in the Christoffel tower terminus with the four-track concourse was commissioned by the Swiss Central Railway headed by its chief architect and engineer Wilhelm Ludwig Maring Pressel. Construction has begun on February 12, 1858 on May 1, 1860, the station was inaugurated.

1864 Christoffel tower was demolished to make way for the station square. Remains of the tower were uncovered during the construction of the station early 1970s and incorporated into the Christoffel underpass.

Station from 1891

In 1864 came the first reconstruction proposals, when it became known that the State Railways Bernese wanted to build a connection to Biel. The Swiss Central Railway developed in 1870 a project for a through station on the northwest side of the burger hospital. After various proposals and commissions established, the proposal prevailed. For the construction of a part of the big ski jump had to be removed.

In 1897, the station building was completely destroyed by fire, but was later rebuilt in the same style.

On the night of 10 July 1902, burned again. The fire department was able to bring the fire under control after one and a half hours, most severely damaged were the lodgings of the buffet staff.

In 1930 the old terminal station has been reduced by 30 meters.

Station from 1974

Since 1914, discussions about the reconstruction and location of the station had flared up again. 1956 was decided in a vote to build a new railway station at the old location. In 1957 started the construction under the direction of the later SBB Director General Roger Desponds, 1974, the new station, a partially clad in glass reinforced concrete structures typical of the 1960s and early 1970s style, was inaugurated. The station was cut off for pedestrians by motorized traffic from the city center, the railway station place for pedestrians not to walk on.

In a project study, the Bernese architectural firm called Atelier 5 in 1989 a redesign of the station with a new main entrance to a largely traffic-free station square with level pedestrian connections to downtown. In subsequent years, parts of the study were implemented in a modified form and by other architects.

Accident in 1982

On September 29, 1982, the engine driver a fast train Olten- Geneva tried out down a delay. At the exit of the station he ran 120 instead of 40 km / h over a set of points in distracting position. The derailment called 15 injured. Because of overhead wire The track commonly used, would have been permitted on the speed of 140 km / h was not usable.

Presence

As of 1999, 5 additional modifications could be implemented by the studio. The facade of the reception building was replaced by a contemporary facade was completed in 2003, which should give a more appropriate appearance of the station.

Was created a shopping center, whose business evening opening times longer than those who are open to the rest of the city and over the weekend, as the legal shop opening times of the municipalities do not apply to the properties of the SBB.

The design of the large railway station followed a design concept that emphasizes the function of the station as a transportation hub, must withdraw behind that of shopping. Colors, advertising signs, window frames and labeling are based on the corporate design of the SBB.

On 12 December 2004, taken the timetable change in the context of the railway in 2000 the wave of Bern in operation, a footbridge over the tracks, which serves as the West entrance.

Future

The current station clinking around 260,000 passengers per day to its limits. Therefore, there are plans for further expansion, the project "Future Station Bern " ( ZBB ), a joint project of the canton and city of Bern, the SBB, BLS, the RBS, BERNMOBIL and other stakeholders. Particularly acute is the problem with RBS underground station, which was designed for the construction of 16,000 passengers, but is used by about 60,000 passengers daily.

In a first step, a new RBS underground station is to be built under the tracks of the train until 2025. Geared to those who SBB created in the same period a second pedestrian underpass with an additional main entrance at Bubenberg center. In a second stage of development, the SBB is planning time horizon from 2025 to 2035 to today's standard gauge station below the Grosse Schanze to four tracks extend ...

Station Square

In early 2007 began with the conversion of the station square. The work was on 31 May 2008, shortly before the 2008 European Football Championship, completed and inaugurated with a celebration. The work included, among others, the redesign of the tram and bus stops, the construction of a glass roof - the canopy - the Station Square, the redevelopment of the Bubenberg space and an extension of the Christoffel underpass.

The Bern train station is also a central hub for urban transport, all five lines of the tram Bern and all three lines of the trolleybus Bern are here linked. The tram stop at the station square and the adjacent terminal loops were already aligned with the longer trains of Tram Bern West, the tram lines after Bümplizstrasse, fountains, which are in operation as of December 12, 2010.

Destinations of the trains

Long-distance traffic

• TGV Interlaken Ost - Bern - Neuchatel - Pontarlier - Dijon - Paris
• IC Genève Aéroport - Lausanne - Bern - Zurich - St. Gallen
• IC Brig - Visp - Bern - Zurich - Roman Horn
• IR Genève Aéroport - Lausanne - Bern - Sursee - Lucerne
• IR Bern - Langenthal - Olten - Zurich - Schaffhausen
• IR Bern - Olten - Aarau - Brugg - Baden - Zurich
• RE Bern - Lyss - Biel / Bienne
• RE Bern - Münsingen - Spiez - Zweisimmen / - Kandersteg - Brig
• RE Bern - Konolfingen - Wolhusen - Lucerne
• RE Bern - Kerzers - Neuchâtel
• RE Bern - Jegenstorf - Solothurn ( narrow gauge railway )

Bern S-Bahn (lines from 2010 timetable )

• S1: Freiburg - Flamatt - Bern - Münsingen - Thun
• S2: Laupen - Flamatt - Bern - Konolfingen - Langnau
• S3: Biel / Bienne - Bern - Belp ( from 21 clock instead S4/S44 to Thun)
• S31: ( Biel / Bienne ) - Münchenbuchsee - Bern - Belp ( Mon - Fri, first courses Accelerates to / from Lyss - Biel )
• S4: Langnau - Burgdorf - Zollikofen - Bern - Belp - Thun
• S44: ( Sumiswald -Green - Ramsei ) / ( Solothurn - Wiler - ) Burgdorf - Bern - Belp - Thun
• S5: Bern - Kerzers - (New Castle ) / ( Murten - Payerne)
• S51: Bern - Bümpliz Nord - Brünnen West Side
• S52: Bern - Rosshäusern - Kerzers ( - ins - Neuchâtel )
• S6: Bern - Black Castle
• S7: Bern - Worblaufen - Ittigen - Bolligen - Worb village
• S7: Bern - Worblaufen - Ittigen - Bolligen (only at peak times )
• S8: Bern - Zollikofen - Jegenstorf ( -Solothurn )
• S9: Bern - Worblaufen - Unterzollikofen

See: S- Bahn Bern

Discontinued destinations (selection)

The last night train from Switzerland to Italy was the EN Luna ( Zurich - Bern - Brig - Bologna - Florence - Rome) on the timetable change 12/13. December 2009 set. On the timetable change in December 2012 was also the Euro Night from Zurich via Bern - Fribourg - Lausanne - Geneva - Perpignan - Girona to Barcelona, ​​the inverted three times a week, is set.