Zweisimmen railway station (german: Bahnhof Zweisimmen) is a railway station in the municipality of

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 olde ...

, in the

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of Bern. It is the terminus of the standard gauge Spiez–Zweisimmen line (from north) and of the Montreux–Zweisimmen and Zweisimmen–Lenk im Simmental lines (separately from south,

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). The station is across the street from the valley station of the

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to the top of the

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Layout

Zweisimmen has three

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s and one

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. The westernmost platform is an island platform serving tracks 3 and 4. These are metre gauge tracks serving the Montreux–Lenk im Simmental railway line and terminate at the station. The next platform east is another island platform. On the west side is track 5, also a metre gauge track that terminates at the station. On the east side is track 6, one of two

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through tracks that connects the Montreux–Zweisimmen railway line with the Spiez–Zweisimmen railway. Next to that platform is the third island platform, serving tracks 7 and 8. Track 7, like 6, is a dual-gauge track. Track 8 is a metre gauge track serving trains to over the Montreux–Lenk im Simmental railway line and terminates at the station. Finally, on the east side of the station is a

serving track 12. Track 12 connects with the Spiez–Zweisimmen railway line and terminates at the station.

Services

The following services stop at Zweisimmen: * ''

GoldenPass Express The ''GoldenPass Express'' is a luxury railway service that operates between Montreux, on Lake Geneva, and Interlaken, in the Bernese Oberland, in Switzerland. The train is owned and operated jointly by the Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway ...

'': daily round-trip between and . * Panorama Express/ Regio: hourly or better service to Montreux. *

RegioExpress RegioExpress (RE) is a fast regional train service in Switzerland, run by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) or other railway companies (such as TILO, BLS, tpf, transN, THURBO or RhB). It is comparable to the Regional-Express in Germany, ...

: eight trains per day to Spiez, with four trains continuing from Spiez to Interlaken Ost. * Regio: ** hourly service to Bern. ** hourly service to .

Gallery

Zweisimmen 20220802E146.jpg Gepacktriebwagen SLM GDe 4-4 in Zweisimmen.jpg, train shed (2014) Zweisimmen 20220802E134 384 528102.jpg, MOB and BLS (2022) Wanderwegweiser Zweisimmen Bahnhof 941.jpg, hiking destinations (2018) Bahnhof Zweisimmen, detail from aerial view, 2022.jpg, aerial view (2022)

References

External links

* * {{SBB web, 7290, zweisimmen Railway stations in the canton of Bern BLS railway stations Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway stations