Frutigen is a

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in the

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and municipality of Frutigen. The station is located on the Lötschberg line of the

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, and is the junction point where the routes via the older

Lötschberg tunnel The Lötschberg Tunnel is a long railway tunnel on the Lötschberg Line, which connects Spiez and Brig at the northern end of the Simplon Tunnel cutting through the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. Its ends are at the towns of Kandersteg (2 k ...

and the more recent

Lötschberg base tunnel The Lötschberg Base Tunnel (LBT) is a railway base tunnel on the BLS AG's Lötschberg line cutting through the Bernese Alps of Switzerland some below the older Lötschberg Tunnel. It runs between Frutigen, Bern, and Raron, Valais. T ...

diverge.

Services

the following services stop at Frutigen: *

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: ** hourly service to and , with most trains continuing from Brig to . ** daily service on weekends during the high season to and Brig. * Regio: rush hour service to . The station is also served by

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bus service to Wengi, Reudlen and

Reichenbach im Kandertal Reichenbach im Kandertal () is a village and municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental (administrative district), Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Bern (can ...

, Automobilverkehr Frutigen-Adelboden bus service to

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, Mitholz and

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, and to Achseten and

Adelboden Adelboden is a mountain village and a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in Switzerland, located in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental (administrative district), Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the Bernese Highlands. Geogra ...

. The northern portal of the

lies immediately to the south of the station. Trains passing through the station are able to use either Lötschberg route, thanks to a grade-separated junction between the station and tunnel mouth. This junction also allows trains on the base tunnel route to bypass Frutigen station, using the Engstlige tunnel. Whilst passenger trains on the base tunnel route can serve Frutigen station, only a few trains per day do so, with most stopping services operating via the old line.

References

External links

* * {{Lötschberg railway line Railway stations in the canton of Bern BLS railway stations