Classic route
Bern–Neuchâtel railway
Neuchâtel → Bern · Switzerland
Bern–Neuchâtel railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 42 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 45 min
- Average speed
- 56 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- BLS
- Train
- IR 66 · InterRegio
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1901
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2356702 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of IR 3213
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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