🇨🇭 Operator
Train routes operated by BLS
6 routes · classic 5 · scenic 1
BLS runs 6 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 346 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Lötschberger at 110 km; the fastest is the Lötschberger, running up to 160 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1864.
The company itself dates to 2006, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from BLS's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q246824 ↗
Open the world railway map →- Routes here
- 6
- Total length
- 346 km
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Fastest
- Lötschberger · 160 km/h
- Longest
- Lötschberger · 110 km
- Oldest line here
- 1864
- Company founded
- 2006
- Type
- railway company
Classic (5)
- RE7 Bern–Luzern
The Emmental cut-through: cheese country and covered bridges between the federal city and the lake at Lucerne, hourly.
Wikipedia (IT) ↗ - Bern–Neuchâtel railway
The Direkt Linie of 1901, driven almost dead straight across the Grand Marais — and still part of the shortest rail route from Bern to Paris.
Wikipedia ↗ - Burgdorf–Thun railway
Opened in 1899 as the first electrified main-line railway in Europe, running from Burgdorf over Konolfingen to Thun.
Wikipedia ↗ - Biel–Bern railway
Bern to Zollikofen opened on 16 June 1857 as part of the Centralbahn line to Olten; the Bernese state railway carried it on over Lyss to Biel in 1864.
Wikipedia ↗ - Huttwil–Wolhusen railway
Emmental single track of 1895, running from Huttwil down to the Little Emme and the junction at Wolhusen.
Wikipedia ↗
Scenic (1)
- Lötschberger
The 1913 mountain line the base tunnel made optional. Felsenburg spirals, a 14.6 km summit tunnel, then the Bietschtal bridge on a ledge above the Rhône.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does BLS run?
6 of the routes in this atlas are BLS services, covering 346 km across 1 country (Switzerland). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest BLS train?
The Lötschberger, Bern to Brig, at up to 160 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 1 h 55 min over 110 km.
Does BLS run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 6 BLS routes listed here are daytime services.
When was BLS founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 2006, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1864 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries BLS runs in
- 🇨🇭 Train routes in Switzerland 71 routes
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