The Lötschberg line is a railway in Switzerland, connecting Spiez in the canton of Bern with Brig in the canton of Valais. It crosses the Bernese Alps...
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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...
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400 m (1,300 ft) below the existing Lötschberg Tunnel. It runs between Frutigen, Bern, and Raron, Valais. The Lötschberg Base Tunnel was built as one of the...
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axis through the Alps, the Lötschberg is thus completed by the Simplon, between Brig and Domodossola in Italy. The Lötschberg alone constitutes an important...
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The Lötschberg Tunnel is a 14.612 km (9.079 mi) long railway tunnel on the Lötschberg Line, which connects Spiez and Brig at the northern end of the Simplon...
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Sanetsch, Rawil, Gemmi, and the Lötschberg, connecting Valais with the Swiss Plateau, through the Bernese Oberland. The Lötschberg, together with the Simplon...
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and Brig via the Lötschberg Base Tunnel, instead of bypassing the town via the Lötschberg railway line (including the old Lötschberg Tunnel) and Brig...
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Lötschberg Lötschberg railway line, a railway line which underpasses the mountain Lötschberg Tunnel, a 14.6km tunnel opened in 1913 Lötschberg Base Tunnel...
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Rail transport in Switzerland (redirect from Swiss railway)
(Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon) operates 10% of the standard-gauge network. It manages the second major Alpine route Bern-Brig, via both Lötschberg Tunnels...
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Bern with Brig via the Lötschberg Pass, including the Lötschberg Tunnel. In 2007, this line was largely supplanted by the New Railway Link through the Alps...
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with the Lötschberg Railway to its north, it forms the second most important trans-Alpine railway line in Switzerland after the Gotthard Railway, which...
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BLS AG (redirect from BLS (railway))
6-kilometre-long (21.5 mi) Lötschberg Base Tunnel opened, which is part of the 449 km of infrastructure owned and operated by BLS AG. The Lötschberg base tunnel was...
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Niesenbahn funicular (category Funicular railways in Switzerland)
village of Mülenen at 693 m and adjacent to Mülenen station on the Lötschberg railway line, with an upper terminus at 2336 m near the summit of Niesen,...
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NRLA (redirect from Alp Transit Gotthard railway)
was conveyed to its operator: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). The Lötschberg axis, with the Lötschberg Base Tunnel (LBT) in the Bernese Alps, was...
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Thun and Spiez. In 1913, the Lake Thun Railway company was taken over by the Bern-Lötschberg-Simplon Railway, which became today's BLS AG. Bönigen remained...
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by the Lötschberg Tunnel, and more recently, in 2007, by the Lötschberg Base Tunnel. The 57.1-km long Gotthard Base Tunnel, the longest railway tunnel...
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level, which makes it the second highest standard railway in Switzerland, after the Lötschberg railway line, the other main north-south axis in the country...
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Kandersteg is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Bern and municipality of Kandersteg. The station is located on the Lötschberg line of the BLS AG...
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Bahnen Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen Lötschberg railway line Berner Oberland Bahn Brienz Rothorn Bahn Chemin de fer Aigle-Leysin...
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Simplon Tunnel (category Railway tunnels in Switzerland)
highway system of piggyback operations for transalpine freight on the Lötschberg–Simplon axis was implemented. Such operations were possible under the...
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population grew dramatically during construction of the Lötschberg Tunnel and the Lötschberg railway line between 1906 and 1913. The new railroad line and...
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inhabitants as of 2020. Blausee-Mitholz [it] is a station on the Lötschberg railway line. A munitions storage explosion in 1947 destroyed the village...
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is the starting point of the Lötschberg South Ramp walking trail, which parallels the south ramp of the Lötschberg railway as it descends the northern...
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operated by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). Besides the second largest standard gauge railway company, BLS AG, two railways companies operate on narrow...
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Opening of the Bern–Lötschberg–Simplon railway's Lötschberg railway line in Switzerland, including the 14.6 km (9.1 mi) Lötschberg Tunnel.[page needed]...
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Goppenstein is mainly known for its railway station on the Lötschberg railway line, at the southern entrance of the Lötschberg Tunnel leading to Kandersteg....
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Goppenstein is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Valais and municipality of Ferden. The station is located on the Lötschberg line of the BLS AG...
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regional rail transport travelling via Lötschberg". BLS AG. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2024. "Spiez–Lötschberg–Brig" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für...
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standard gauge lines, Simplon railway and Lötschberg railway line (with services operated by Swiss Federal Railways), and a metre gauge line BVZ Zermatt-Bahn...
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an intermediate point of the Lötschberg South Ramp walking trail, which parallels the south ramp of the Lötschberg railway as it descends the northern...
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