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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.[1][2]

Thun
The station in 2011
General information
Location	Thun Switzerland
Coordinates	46°45′17.471″N 7°37′46.582″E
Elevation	595 m (1,952 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Bern–Thun line Burgdorf–Thun line Gürbetal line Lake Thun line
Train operators	BLS AG Deutsche Bahn Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	Verkehrsbetriebe STI buses BLS AG on Lake Thun
Services Preceding station EuroCity Following station Bern towards Hamburg-Altona Hamburg to Interlaken Spiez towards Interlaken Ost Bern towards Basel SBB Basel to Milan Spiez towards Milano Centrale Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Bern towards Basel SBB InterCity IC 6 Spiez towards Brig Bern towards Romanshorn InterCity IC 8 Bern towards Basel SBB InterCity IC 61 Spiez towards Interlaken Ost Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Bern towards Berlin Ostbahnhof ICE 12 Spiez towards Interlaken Ost Preceding station Bern S-Bahn Following station Uttigen towards Fribourg S1 Terminus Terminus S4 Uetendorf Allmend towards Langnau S44 Uetendorf Allmend towards Solothurn or Sumiswald-Grünen Preceding station BLS Following station Münsingen towards Bern RegioExpress Lötschberger Spiez towards Domodossola Regio Spiez towards Zweisimmen Terminus Steffisburg towards Solothurn Schwäbis towards Konolfingen
Location
Thun Location within Switzerland

The station is served by various operators, including the BLS AG, 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:[3]

• 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/Regio: hourly service between Bern and Zweisimmen or Brig/Domodossola; the train splits at Thun.
• Regio: two trains per hour to Konolfingen, with every other train continuing to Solothurn.
• Bern S-Bahn:
  • S1: half-hourly service to Fribourg.
  • S4: hourly service to Langnau.
  • S44: hourly service to Solothurn or Sumiswald-Grünen.

References

External links

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

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