Lötschberger

When the Lötschberg Base Tunnel opened in 2007, the 1913 mountain line above it was kept alive for the slow and the curious. BLS’s green Lötschberger units leave Bern hourly, spiral past the Felsenburg ruin above Kandersteg and thread the 14.6 km summit tunnel before emerging onto the südrampe: a ledge high above the Rhône where the line tiptoes across the Bietschtal bridge. Walkers use it like a funicular: every little station on the ramp opens onto a marked trail.

Stations

1. 2 kmBern +5
2. 19 kmMünsingen
3. 33 kmThun +2
4. 44 kmSpiez +2
5. 51 kmMülenen +1
6. 52 kmReichenbach
7. 57 kmFrutigen
8. 75 kmKandersteg
9. 92 kmGoppenstein
10. 98 kmHohtenn
11. 105 kmAusserberg
12. 108 kmEggerberg
13. 111 kmLalden
14. 117 kmBrig +3

The stations this train called at in the operator’s timetable (ÖBB Scotty, the RE 1 on 12 October 2026), in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. Other runs of the train may skip some of them, and the timetable can change. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• Thun castle & lake
• Kander viaduct at Frutigen
• Felsenburg loops
• Kandersteg (Blüemlisalp views)
• Lötschberg summit tunnel (14.6 km)
• Südrampe & Bietschtal bridge

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2354183 (51 km), relation 1843687 (65 km), 116 km of the route between them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 3 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2 km
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RE 1
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

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