Burgdorf railway station

Burgdorf
Burgdorf
	The station building in 2019
General information
Location	Burgdorf; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°3′38.4768″N 7°37′18.0714″E / 47.060688000°N 7.621686500°E
Elevation	533 m (1,749 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Burgdorf–Thun line; Olten–Bern line; Solothurn–Langnau line;
Distance	20.7 km (12.9 mi) from Solothurn; 83.4 km (51.8 mi) from Basel SBB;
Platforms	6 (3 island platforms)
Tracks	6
Train operators	BLS AG; Südostbahn; Swiss Federal Railways;
Connections	Busland AG buses
Construction
Parking	Yes (108 spaces)
Bicycle facilities	Yes
Accessible	Partly
Other information
Station code	8508005 (BDF)
Fare zone	150 (Libero)
Passengers
2023	17'200 per weekday (BLS, SBB, SOB)
Services
	Burgdorf Steinhof towards Thun
	Burgdorf Steinhof towards Langnau i.E.
	Lyssach towards Thun
	Burgdorf Steinhof towards Sumiswald-Grünen
	Lyssach towards Ostermundigen
Location
Location

Burgdorf railway station (German: Bahnhof Burgdorf; French: Gare de Berthoud) is a railway station in the municipality of Burgdorf, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It sits at the junction of three the standard gauge railway lines: the Olten–Bern line of Swiss Federal Railways and the Burgdorf–Thun and Solothurn–Langnau lines of BLS AG.^[1]

Services

As of the December 2024 timetable change, the following services stop at Burgdorf:^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

InterRegio: half-hourly service between Bern and Olten; trains continue to Chur via Zürich Hauptbahnhof every hour.
Bern S-Bahn S4/S44: half-hourly service to Thun and hourly service to Langnau i.E., Solothurn, or Sumiswald-Grünen.
- S41: hourly service between Thun and Solothurn.
- S42: limited service to Thun.
- S46: morning rush-hour service on weekdays to Ostermundigen.

^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 20. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Liniennetz Burgdorf" (PDF) (in German). Libero. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
^ "Zonenplan Plan des Zones" (PDF) (in German and French). Libero. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
^ "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Burgdorf, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 21 January 2025 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
^ "Bern - Burgdorf - Langnau/Sumiswald-Grünen (S-Bahn Bern, Linien S4, S44)" (PDF) (in German). öv-info.ch. 19 September 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
^ "Burgdorf - Konolfingen - Thun" (PDF) (in German). öv-info.ch. 19 September 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
^ "Bern - Burgdorf - Solothurn (S-Bahn Bern, Linien S4, S44)" (PDF) (in German). öv-info.ch. 19 September 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.
^ "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Burgdorf" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 15 December 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2025.