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  • ️Tue Jun 18 1878

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Brig

Squat, wide three-story building

The station building in 2017

General information
LocationBahnhof 1
Brig
Switzerland
Coordinates46°19′9.923″N 7°59′17.142″E / 46.31942306°N 7.98809500°E
Elevation677 m (2,221 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Distance
  • 145.6 km (90.5 mi) from Lausanne
  • 73.8 km (45.9 mi) from Spiez
[1]
Platforms
Tracks9
Train operators
Connections
[2]
Construction
ParkingYes (55 spaces)
Bicycle facilitiesYes (330 spaces)
AccessiblePartly
Other information
Station code8501609 (BR)
IATA codeZDL
History
Opened18 June 1878
Passengers
202320'700 per weekday[3] (BLS, MGB, RegionAlps, SBB)
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station
Visp

towards Basel SBB

 EuroCity Domodossola
Sion Domodossola
Visp

towards Basel SBB

 IC 6 Terminus
Visp

towards Romanshorn

 IC 8
Visp IR 90
IR 95
Terminus IR Domodossola

Terminus

Preceding station BLS Following station
Lalden

towards Bern

 RE1 Terminus
Eggerberg

towards Bern

 RE1 Iselle di Trasquera

towards Domodossola

Eggerberg

towards Biel/Bienne

 RE11

Weekends only

 Terminus
Terminus RE2 Domodossola

Terminus

Visp

Terminus

 RE2 Domodossola

One-way operation

Terminus RE2 Iselle di Trasquera

towards Domodossola

Preceding station RegionAlps Following station
Visp

towards St-Gingolph

 R91 Terminus
Visp

towards Monthey

 R91

Location

Map
Brig railway station

Brig railway station is an important railway junction in the municipality of Brig-Glis (French: Brigue-Glis), in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. Opened in 1878, it is adjacent to the northern portal of the Simplon Tunnel and is served by two standard gauge lines. Another two metre gauge lines serve the physically adjacent Brig Bahnhofplatz railway station.[1]

Railway station in Brig-Glis

Service to Brig began on 18 June 1878; it was at that time the eastern terminus of the Simplon Railway.[4] The opening of the Simplon Tunnel in 1906 extended the Simplon Railway southeast to Domodossola, in Italy.

Brig's other standard gauge line, the Lötschberg railway line, opened in 1913. It links 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 (NRLA),[5] connecting (Bern and) Spiez with Visp, near Brig, via the Lötschberg Base Tunnel. Trains travelling along the NRLA line to Visp usually then continue on to Brig via the Simplon line.

As of the December 2024 timetable change, the following services stop at Brig:[6]

  1. ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Freiburg: EK-Verlag. 2024. pp. 45−46, 79. ISBN 978-3-8446-6441-6.
  2. ^ "Liniennetz Brig und Umgebung" (PDF) (in German). PostBus Switzerland. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  3. ^ "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Brig, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
  4. ^ Stockmar, Joseph (1920). Histoire du chemin de fer du Simplon (PDF) (in French). Librairie Payot & Cie, Lausanne und Genf. p. 29. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  5. ^ Swiss timetable 300.
  6. ^ "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Brig" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 15 December 2024. Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  • Moser, Beat; Börret, Ralph; Küstner, Thomas (2005). Glacier Express: Von St. Moritz nach Zermatt (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-057-2.
  • Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2006). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). Vol. 1. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-157-9.
  • Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2007). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). Vol. 2. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 978-3-89610-175-4.
  • "Official timetable of Switzerland". Bundesamt für Verkehr. Archived from the original on 2014-09-28. Retrieved 2010-07-07. (in English)