Bern Europaplatz railway station

Bern Europaplatz railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Bern and city of Bern that is a major public transport interchange. The station has two levels and groups of platforms, with the upper one on the SBB-owned Olten to Lausanne line and the lower one on the BLS-owned Gürbetal line. Until 2014, the two groups of platforms were regarded as separate stations, known as Ausserholligen SBB and Ausserholligen GBS respectively, but in that year they were both renamed after the adjacent Zentrum Europaplatz and are now shown as a single station on public transport maps.[4][5][6][1]

Bern Europaplatz
LocationEuropaplatz
Bern
Switzerland
Coordinates46°56′39.138″N 7°24′22.003″E
Owned by
Line(s)
Distance94.1 km (58.5 mi) from Lausanne[1]
Train operatorsBLS AG
Connections
Other information
Fare zone100 and 101 (Libero)[3]
Services
Preceding station Bern S-Bahn Following station
Bern Bümpliz Süd
towards Fribourg
 S1 Bern
towards Thun
Bern Bümpliz Süd
towards Flamatt
 S2 Bern
towards Langnau
Bern Weissenbühl
towards Belp
 S3 Bern
towards Biel/Bienne
S31
Liebefeld
towards Schwarzenburg
 S6 Bern
Terminus
Location
Bern Europaplatz
Location within Switzerland
Bern Europaplatz
Bern Europaplatz (Canton of Bern)

The upper group of platforms form an intermediate stop on Bern S-Bahn lines S1, between Bern and Fribourg, and S2, between Bern and Laupen. The lower level group of platforms form an intermediate stop on S-Bahn lines S3 and S31, between Bern and Belp, and S6, between Bern and Schwarzenburg (using the Bern–Schwarzenburg line). All five lines operate half-hourly for most of the day, providing ten trains per hour between Europaplatz and Bern, and all are operated by BLS.[5][7][8][9]

The public transport interchange at Europaplatz also includes the Europaplatz Bahnhof stop on Bern tramway routes 7 and 8 and Bernmobil bus route 31. The A12 motorway passes over both stations and the interchange on a viaduct.[4][6]

  • The upper platforms
  • The lower platforms
  • The tram stop

References
  1. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 66. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  2. "Liniennetz Bern" (PDF) (in German). libero. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  3. "Zonenplan" (PDF) (in German). Libero. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  4. ""Bern Europaplatz" statt Ausserholligen" ["Bern Europaplatz" instead of Ausserholligen]. Der Bund (in German). 14 October 2014. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  5. "Liniennetz" [Line Network] (PDF) (in German). S-Bahn Bern. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  6. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  7. "Fribourg/Freiburg–Bern–Thun" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  8. "Biel/Bienne–Lyss–Bern–Belp–Thun" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 September 2018. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  9. "Bern–Schwarzenburg" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 September 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2018.


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