Olten railway station
Olten railway station (German: Bahnhof Olten) is a major hub railway station in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, at the junction of lines to Zürich, Bern, Basel, Lucerne and Biel.[1] As a result, Olten is a railway town and was also the site of the main workshop of the Swiss Central Railway (German: Schweizerische Centralbahn), which became a major workshop for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). It is the southern terminus of the Basel Regional S-Bahn S3 and S9 lines, the northern terminus of the Lucerne S-Bahn S8 line, and the western terminus of the Aargau S-Bahn S26 line.
Olten | |
|---|---|
| Central pass-through railway station | |
 The station in 2006 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Bahnhofstrasse 22 Olten Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 47°21′6.948″N 7°54′27.659″E |
| Elevation | 396 m (1,299 ft) |
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways |
| Line(s) | |
| Distance | 39.2 km (24.4 mi) from Basel SBB[1] |
| Platforms | 6 |
| Tracks | 10 |
| Train operators | |
| Connections | BOGG and PostAuto buses[2] |
| Other information | |
| Fare zone | 520 (Tarifverbund A-Welle)[3] |
| History | |
| Opened | 9 June 1856 |
| Passengers | |
| 2018 | 83,000 per working day[4] |
| Location | |
Although Olten only has 18,000 inhabitants, the station is used each day by about 80,000 passengers and is one of the 10 busiest in Switzerland, busier than even Geneva. It serves 1,100 trains a day, making it one of the busiest in Switzerland.[5]
Services
As a major railway junction, Olten serves numerous through trains. In addition, a number of local services originate at Olten:[6]
- EuroCity / InterCity / Intercity Express (ICE): half-hourly service to Spiez. Most northbound trains terminate in Basel; a single EuroCity continues to Hamburg-Altona, another to Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, and two ICEs continue to Berlin Ostbahnhof. Most southbound trains continue to Interlaken Ost; one train every two hours continues to Brig. Three EuroCity trains continue from Brig to Milano Centrale.
- EuroCity / InterCity / InterRegio: hourly service to Bellinzona and every two hours to Locarno or Lugano; two trains per day continue from Lugano to Milano Centrale.
- InterCity: half-hourly service between Yverdon-les-Bains and Zürich Hauptbahnhof; hourly service to Geneva Airport, Lausanne, and Rorschach.
- InterRegio: three trains per hour to Bern, two trains per hour to Zürich Hauptbahnhof, and one train per hour to Chur.
- RegioExpress:
- S20: half-hourly service to Solothurn, with trains continuing from Solothurn to Biel/Bienne, Langendorf, Lommiswil or Oberdorf SO.
- Aargau S-Bahn:
- Basel trinational S-Bahn:
- S3: half-hourly service to Laufen and hourly service to Porrentruy.
- S9: hourly service to Sissach.
References
- Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 10. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- "Netzplan Region Olten" (PDF). A-Welle. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
- "Zonenplan" (PDF) (in German). A-Welle. 30 September 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
- "SBB modernises Olten station" (155). Today's Railways Europe. November 2008: 57.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Olten" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 13 December 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
