The Spiez–Zweisimmen railway is a single-track standard-gauge line in Switzerland that is currently operated by BLS AG. It was formerly owned by the ''Spiez-Erlenbach-Zweisimmen-Bahn'' (SEZ), also called the ''Simmentalbahn'' (Simme Valley Railway). The line runs from through the

Simmental The Simmental ( en, Simme Valley) is an Swiss Alps, alpine valley in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland. It expands from Lenk to Boltigen, in a more or less south-north direction (Obersimmental (district), Obersimmental), and from there to the v ...

Zweisimmen Zweisimmen is a municipality in the Obersimmental-Saanen administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. History Zweisimmen is first mentioned in 1228 as ''Duessimenes''. In 1257 it was mentioned as ''Zweinlixhenun''. The oldes ...

. It is marketed as part of the

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between and , which also includes the metre-gauge

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and Montreux–Lenk im Simmental railway and part of the standard-gauge

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. The ''SEZ'' was formed on 1 January 1942 from the merger of the ''Spiez-Erlenbach-Bahn'' (SEB), which opened the line from Spiez to Erlenbach on 16 August 1897, and the ''Erlenbach-Zweisimmen-Bahn'' (EZB), which opened the line from Erlenbach to Zweisimmen on 31 October 1902. Bls-rabe-535-107-als-880360

In June 1997, the ''SEZ'' merged with the Gürbetal-Bern-Schwarzenburg-Bahn (GBS), the Bern-Neuenburg-Bahn (BN) and the Berner Alpenbahn-Gesellschaft Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon (BLS) to form the BLS Lötschbergbahn, which itself merged with the

Regionalverkehr Mittelland Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG (RM) was a 1997 merger of * EBT - Emmental–Burgdorf–Thun-Bahn * VHB - Vereinigte Huttwil-Bahnen * SMB - Solothurn–Münster-Bahn which had been under common management since 1943. In 2006 the main owners of RM ...

to form the BLS AG in 2006. In Zweisimmen there is a connection to the narrow-gauge Montreux–Lenk im Simmental railway of the

Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway The Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (french: link=no, Chemin de fer Montreux Oberland Bernois, german: link=no, Montreux Berner Oberland Bahn, abbreviated MOB), is an electrified railway line that operates in southwest Switzerland. It is one o ...

(MOB), which runs from

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to Lenk im Simmental. Local services operate hourly over the line. Regional Express services operate every two hours. Erlenbach-Zweisimmen-Bahn 1903

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