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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.
The station is served by various operators, including BLS, 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
As of the December 2024 timetable change, the following services stop at Thun:
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:
hourly service between Bern and Zweisimmen or Brig/Domodossola; the train splits at Spiez.
daily service on weekends during the high season between Biel/Bienne and Brig.
Bern S-Bahn:
S1: half-hourly service to Fribourg/Freiburg.
S11: two daily rush-hour services on weekdays to Bern.
S21 / S41 / S42 : three trains per hour to Konolfingen, from Konolfingen, half-hourly service to Hasle-Rüegsau, with every other train continuing to Solothurn.
S4: hourly service to Langnau.
S44: hourly service to Solothurn or Sumiswald-Grünen.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
References
External links
Media related to Thun railway station at Wikimedia Commons
Thun railway station – SBB
Interactive station plan (Thun)