The S20 is a railway service of
RER Fribourg
RER Fribourg or RER Fribourg , Freiburg (french: Réseau express régional fribourgeois, german: S-Bahn Freiburg) is an S-Bahn network in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The network has two hubs, Bulle and Fribourg, and began operating i ...
that provides hourly service between and , in the Swiss cantons of
Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel (, , ; german: Neuenburg) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel, situated on the shoreline of Lake Neuchâtel. Since the fusion in 2021 of the municipalities of Neuchâtel, Corcelles-Cormondrèche, Peseux, and Valangin, ...
and
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...
, respectively. The S20 is extended to on weekdays.
Transports publics Fribourgeois
The Transports Publics Fribourgeois (TPF) is a renaming of the former Chemins de fer Fribourgeois Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat when the municipal Transport en commun de Fribourg (TF) was absorbed in 2000.
Lines
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operates the service.
Operations
The S20 runs hourly between and . On weekdays it continues to . It uses the western end of the
Bern–Neuchâtel line, the entirety of the
Fribourg–Ins line, and a portion of the
Lausanne–Bern line. It is paired with the
S21 between and Romont, providing half-hourly service.
History
RER Fribourg introduced the S20 designation on 14 December 2014 for an hourly service between and Neuchâtel. In December 2017, the S21, previously a rush-hour service between Fribourg and , was re-routed to run between Fribourg and Ins and rescheduled for hourly service on weekdays, increasing the service level between Fribourg and Ins to half-hourly on weekdays. With the December 2021 timetable change, both the S20 and S21 were extended south from Fribourg to Romont, replacing the
S40. The S21 began running on weekends with this change, while the S20 operated between Fribourg and Romont on weekdays only.
References
External links
* 2022 timetable
Neuchâtel–Fribourgan
Fribourg–Romont
{{RER Fribourg
RER Fribourg lines
Transport in the canton of Bern
Transport in the canton of Fribourg
Transport in the canton of Neuchâtel
Transport in the canton of Vaud