🇨🇭 Operator
Train routes operated by BLS
4 routes · classic 3 · scenic 1
BLS runs 4 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 217 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 1895.
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
- 4
- Total length
- 217 km
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Fastest
- Lötschberger · 160 km/h
- Longest
- Lötschberger · 110 km
- Oldest line here
- 1895
- Company founded
- 2006
- Type
- railway company
Classic (3)
- 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 ↗ - 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?
4 of the routes in this atlas are BLS services, covering 217 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 4 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 1895 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries BLS runs in
- 🇨🇭 Train routes in Switzerland 70 routes
Other operators in Switzerland
- SBB 16 routes
- Rhätische Bahn 3 routes
- Jungfraubahnen 2 routes
- Rhaetian Railway (RhB) 2 routes
- SBB · DB 2 routes
- Südostbahn 2 routes
- TPF 2 routes