Bern railway station

railway station in Switzerland
Place railway_station Q28870
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Summary

Bern railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.84% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (526 views/month, #156 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Bern[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Transport network: Bern S-Bahn[5], RER Fribourg[6]
  • Instance of: underground railway station[7], break-of-gauge station[8]
  • Connecting line: Lötschberg railway line[9], Mattstetten–Rothrist new line[10], Bern–Neuchâtel railway[11], Gürbetalbahn[12], Bern–Lucerne railway[13], Bern–Thun railway line[14], Biel/Bienne–Bern railway[15], Lausanne–Bern railway line[16], Olten–Bern railway line[17], Zollikofen–Bern railway line[18], Bern–Schwarzenburg railway line[19]
  • Architect: Wilhelm Pressel[20], Rudolf Ludwig Maring[21], Roger Desponds[22], Atelier 5[23]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[24]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[25]
  • Adjacent station: Bern Europaplatz SBB station[26], Bern Wankdorf railway station[27], Bern Europaplatz BLS station[28], Belp railway station[29], Bern Stöckacker railway station[30], Worblaufen railway station[31], Bern Felsenau railway station[32], Düdingen railway station[33], Fribourg railway station[34], Zürich Hauptbahnhof[35], Olten railway station[36], Thun railway station[37], Burgdorf railway station[38]
  • Postal code: 3011[39]
  • Station code: BN[40]
  • Commons category: Bern railway station[41]
  • Has part(s): Welle von Bern[42]
  • Official website: https://www.sbb.ch/de/bahnhof-services/am-bahnhof/bahnhoefe/bahnhof-bern.html[43]
  • Number of platform tracks: 12[44]
  • Connecting service: InterCityExpress[45], EuroCity[46], IC 1[47], InterRegio[48], RegioExpress[49], Regio[50], S1 (Bern)[51], S2[52], S6[53], S31[54], S3[55], S9[56], S5[57], S52[58]

Why It Matters

Bern railway station has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . s-bahn-bern.ch. s-bahn-bern.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [3] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  28. [30] ↑ . s-bahn-bern.ch. s-bahn-bern.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [59] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [60] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Bern'}
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  4. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Connecting service → Intercity Express, EuroCity, IC 1 +22
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    Country → Switzerland
    Disabled accessibility → wheelchair accessible
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