The S1 is a railway service of the

Bern S-Bahn The Bern S-Bahn (; ) is an S-Bahn commuter rail network focused on Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. The network is roughly coterminous with Bern's urban agglomeration. Its services connect with those of Lucerne S-Bahn, RER Fribourg, RER ...

that provides half-hourly service between and via .

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, a private company primarily owned by the federal government and the canton of Bern, operates the service. The S1 is the oldest of the Bern S-Bahn routes, tracing its roots back to 1987.

Operations

The S1 operates every half hour between and via . In Fribourg, the S1 makes a connection with the IC 1 or IR 15 for . In Thun, the S1 makes a connection with the IC 6 or IC 8 for and . The S1 is joined between and by the S2, for a total of four trains per hour between those stops. The S2 makes local stops between and , which the S1 skips. , most services are operated by

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multiple units.

History

Swiss Federal Railways Swiss Federal Railways (, SBB; , CFF; , FFS) is the national railway company of Switzerland. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Bern. It used to be a State-owned enterprise, government institution, but since 1999 it has be ...

(SBB) had run trains on a half-hourly schedule over the Lausanne–Bern and Bern–Thun railway lines since 1987. Trains ran between Thun and Flamatt every 30 minutes, continuing to either or Fribourg. The service gained the designation "S1" on 28 May 1995 when the S2 began operating. The S1 has continued relatively unchanged since then. The

Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn The Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon-Bahn (BLS), known between 1997 and 2006 as the BLS Lötschbergbahn, was a Swiss railway company. In 2006 the company merged with Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG to form a new company called BLS AG. BLS owned the lar ...

(BLS) assumed operation from the SBB in December 2004, and the S11 began running as a rush-hour supplement between Bern and Fribourg. Beginning in December 2008, the S11 was eliminated, and the S1 ceased serving Laupen BE: all trains continued to Fribourg on a half-hourly schedule. The re-routed S2 took over service between Flamatt and Laupen BE.

References

External links

2023 timetable
{{Bern S-Bahn Bern S-Bahn lines Transport in the canton of Bern Transport in the canton of Fribourg