🇨🇭 Operator
Train routes operated by SBB
16 routes · classic 11 · scenic 5
SBB runs 16 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,458 km of railway across 3 countries. The longest is the IC 1 at 280 km; the fastest is the IC 1, running up to 200 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1855. 3 of its routes cross an international border.
The company itself dates to 1902, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from SBB'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 Q83835 ↗
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- 16
- Total length
- 1,458 km
- Countries
- Switzerland, Italy, France
- Fastest
- IC 1 · 200 km/h
- Longest
- IC 1 · 280 km
- Oldest line here
- 1855
- Company founded
- 1902
- Type
- railway company
Classic (11)
- IC 1
Switzerland’s flagship express and spine of the clockface timetable: Zurich to Geneva across the Mittelland, Bern and Lausanne on the way, every half hour.
Wikipedia (DE) ↗ - IR 90 Geneva–Brig
The IR 90 follows the whole north shore of Lake Geneva, then turns up the Rhône between towering valley walls: Lavaux vineyards, the castles of Aigle and Sion, and the Simplon railhead at Brig.
Wikipedia (FR) ↗ - IC61 Basel–Interlaken
Basel to the Bernese Oberland in one seat: Olten, Bern, then the lakeside crawl past Thun and Spiez to Interlaken under the Eiger.
Wikipedia (DE) ↗ - IC 3
The approach every Glacier and Bernina rider actually takes: along Lake Zurich and the Walensee’s cliff wall to Chur, where the narrow gauge begins.
Wikipedia (DE) ↗ - IR15 Bern–Luzern
The Emmental cut-through: cheese country and covered bridges between the federal city and the lake at Lucerne, hourly.
Wikipedia (IT) ↗ - Thur Valley Line
Switzerland's fourth-oldest railway, opened on 16 May 1855 down the Thur valley to Romanshorn, where trains once met the Lake Constance ferries.
Wikipedia ↗ - Broye Line
Single track across Romandy's Broye valley, crossing its sister line at Payerne on the way from Lake Neuchâtel to Fribourg.
Wikipedia ↗ - Seetalbahn
Opened in 1883 by British investors down the Seetal lakes to Lucerne — for a century a roadside light railway, and rebuilt on its own alignment in the 2000s.
Wikipedia ↗ - Lausanne–Vallorbe line
The climb from Lake Geneva into the Jura at Vallorbe — since 1870 the shortest rail route between Paris and Milan.
Wikipedia (FR) ↗ - Brig–Domodossola railway
The Swiss–Italian side of the Simplon: 41 km from Brig to Domodossola, almost half of it inside the 19.8 km Simplon Tunnel of 1906.
Wikipedia (IT) ↗ - Delémont–Delle railway
Opened in stages from 1872 through the Jura canton — Glovelier, Porrentruy, Boncourt — and over the French border to Delle.
Wikipedia ↗
Scenic (5)
- Gotthard Panorama Express
A paddle steamer up Lake Lucerne, then the 1882 Gotthard line’s spirals and the Wassen church seen thrice — summer-only, once daily, seat surcharge.
Wikipedia ↗ - Biel–La Chaux-de-Fonds railway
Single track up out of Biel through the Jura gorges to the watchmaking city of La Chaux-de-Fonds at 1,000 m, worked since 1874.
Wikipedia ↗ - Cadenazzo–Luino railway
Hugs the north-eastern shore of Lake Maggiore, crossing from Ticino into Italy on the way to Luino.
Wikipedia ↗ - Rheinfall railway
Named for what it passes: the 1857 line from Winterthur to Schaffhausen runs along the Rhine Falls, Europe's widest waterfall.
Wikipedia ↗ - Glarus Line
The Glarnerlinie of 1859, single track up the Linth valley under the Glärnisch and the Tödi to the road-head at Linthal.
Wikipedia (DE) ↗
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Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does SBB run?
16 of the routes in this atlas are SBB services, covering 1,458 km across 3 countries (Switzerland, Italy, France). 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 SBB train?
The IC 1, Zurich to Geneva, at up to 200 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 2 h 45 min over 280 km.
Does SBB run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 16 SBB routes listed here are daytime services.
When was SBB founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1902, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1855 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries SBB runs in
- 🇫🇷 Train routes in France 103 routes
- 🇨🇭 Train routes in Switzerland 70 routes
- 🇮🇹 Train routes in Italy 62 routes
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- Jungfraubahnen 2 routes
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- TPF 2 routes