Neuchâtel railway station
Neuchâtel railway station (French: Gare de Neuchâtel) serves the municipality of Neuchâtel, the capital city of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Opened in 1857, it is owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.
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| Location | Place de la Gare 1 Neuchâtel Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°59′48.2172″N 6°56′8.5679″E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 479 m above the sea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1857 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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  Neuchâtel Location within Switzerland  Neuchâtel Neuchâtel (Canton of Neuchâtel) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The station forms part of one of Switzerland's most important railway lines, the Jura foot railway (Olten–Genève-Aéroport), which is one of two routes used by intercity trains between Geneva and Zürich. It is also a junction for SBB-CFF-FFS lines from La Chaux-de-Fonds and to Pontarlier, and for the BLS line from Bern.
Location
Neuchâtel railway station is situated at Place de la Gare to the north east of the city centre, about a 15-minute walk from the central pedestrian zone. The Funambule funicular links the station to the lower part of the town, near the University.
Services
The following services stop at Neuchâtel:[1]
- InterCity:
- hourly service between Lausanne and St. Gallen.
- hourly service between Geneva Airport and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
- RegioExpress:
- hourly service between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Bern.
- hourly service to Le Locle.
- three trains per day to Frasne, connecting with the Paris–Lausanne TGV Lyria service.
- Regio:
- half-hourly service to Biel/Bienne.
- half-hourly service to Buttes.
- half-hourly service to Corcelles-Peseux.
- hourly service to Gorgier-St-Aubin, with rush-hour trains continuing to Yverdon-les-Bains.
- RER Fribourg S20/Bern S-Bahn S5: hourly service to Fribourg or Bern.
References
- "Départ: Gare de Neuchâtel" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in French). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
External links
- Neuchâtel railway station – SBB
- Interactive station plan (Neuchâtel)
- Transports Régionaux Neuchâtelois - official site (in French)