Neuchâtel railway station

Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
	The station building in 2006
Location	Place de la Gare 1; Neuchâtel; Switzerland
Coordinates	46°59′48.2172″N 6°56′8.5679″E / 46.996727000°N 6.935713306°ECoordinates: 46°59′48.2172″N 6°56′8.5679″E / 46.996727000°N 6.935713306°E
Elevation	479 m above the sea
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Bern–Neuchâtel line; Jura Foot line; Neuchâtel–Le Locle-Col-des-Roches line; Neuchâtel-Pontarlier line;
Train operators	BLS AG; Swiss Federal Railways; Transports publics Fribourgeois; Transports publics neuchâtelois [fr];
Connections	TN trolleybuses (line 7); TN buses (lines 9, 9b, 10, S);
History
Opened	1857
Services
Yverdon-les-Bains towards Geneva Airport	Biel/Bienne towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof
	Travers towards Frasne
	Neuchâtel-Serrières towards Yverdon-les-Bains
Terminus	St-Blaise CFF towards Biel/Bienne
Location
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Neuchâtel railway station (French: Gare de Neuchâtel) serves the municipality of Neuchâtel, the capital city of the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Opened in 1857, it is owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.

The station forms part of one of Switzerland's most important railway lines, the Jura foot railway (Olten–Genève-Aéroport), which is one of two routes used by intercity trains between Geneva and Zürich. It is also a junction for SBB-CFF-FFS lines to Le Locle and Pontarlier, and for the BLS line from Bern.

Location[]

Neuchâtel railway station is situated at Place de la Gare to the north east of the city centre, about a 15-minute walk from the central pedestrian zone. The Funambule funicular links the station to the lower part of the town, near the University.

Services[]

The following services stop at Neuchâtel:^[1]

InterCity:
- hourly service between Lausanne and St. Gallen.
- hourly service between Geneva Airport and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
InterRegio: hourly service between La Chaux-de-Fonds and Bern.
RegioExpress:
- hourly service to Le Locle.
- three trains per day to Frasne, connecting with the Paris–Lausanne TGV Lyria service.
Regio:
- hourly to half-hourly service to Biel/Bienne.
- half-hourly service to .
- half-hourly service to Corcelles-Peseux.
- hourly service to Gorgier-St-Aubin, with rush-hour trains continuing to Yverdon-les-Bains.
RER Fribourg S20/Bern S-Bahn S5: hourly service to Fribourg or Bern.