The S21 is a railway service of
RER Fribourg
RER Fribourg or RER Fribourg , Freiburg (french: Réseau express régional fribourgeois, german: S-Bahn Freiburg) is an S-Bahn network in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The network has two hubs, Bulle and Fribourg, and began operating in ...
that provides hourly service between and , in the Swiss cantons of
Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...
and
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...
, respectively.
Transports publics Fribourgeois
The Transports Publics Fribourgeois (TPF) is a renaming of the former Chemins de fer Fribourgeois Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat when the municipal Transport en commun de Fribourg (TF) was absorbed in 2000.
Lines
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operates the service.
Operations
The S21 runs hourly between and . It uses the western end of the
Bern–Neuchâtel line, the entirety of the
Fribourg–Ins line, and a portion of the
Lausanne–Bern line. It is paired with the
S20 between and , and between Ins and Romont on weekdays, providing half-hourly service.
History
RER Fribourg introduced the S21 designation on 14 December 2014 for a rush-hour service between Fribourg and . In December 2017 it was changed to an hourly service on weekdays between Fribourg and Ins, paired with the S20 and together providing half-hourly service. With the December 2021 timetable change, both the S20 and S21 were extended south from Fribourg to Romont, replacing the
S40. The S21 began running on weekends with this change, while the S20 operated between Fribourg and Romont on weekdays only.
References
External links
* 2022 timetable
Neuchâtel–Fribourgan
Fribourg–Romont
{{RER Fribourg
RER Fribourg lines
Transport in the canton of Bern
Transport in the canton of Fribourg
Transport in the canton of Vaud