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for transit traffic to Italy. It was then gradually converted to double track up to 1921 and electrified in 1918/1919. The first part of the Thun–Scherzligen line was electrified from 2 December 1918 to allow BLS trains to enter Thun station. Electrification of the rest of the line to Bern followed
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Wylerfeld and Ostermundigen was relocated in 1912. The new line, which had been built as double track, was put into operation on 20 May 1912. The old line ran from the points at the western approach to the carriage sidings at Wylerfeld, continuing south of the grosse Allmend
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was opened by the Swiss
Central Railway on 1 July 1859. The line began in Wylerfeld and used the line opened from Olten to Bern station in 1858. In 1861, it was extended by a little over a kilometre from Thun to Scherzligen, where there was a connection to the steamboats on
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The Löchligut–Wankdorf connecting line was put into operation on 21 May 1967. This ended the reversal of (through) freight trains at the oblique junction in Bern
Wylerfeld, because freight trains are now able to run directly from Zollikofen to Ostermundigen.
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station, which had been opened on 20 July 1922, was closed at the timetable change in 1982 and public transport services to the community were replaced by a VBW/SZB bus service.
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services on the Milan–Basel route. In local traffic,
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1143:to Interlaken via Spiez
92:31 km (19 mi)
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1262:Swiss Federal Railways
1186:Bern–Thun railway line
1470:Trüb, Walter (1988).
1206:Swiss Central Railway
1196:. It is part of the
1192:valley in the Swiss
1380:Swiss railway atlas
1286:alternating current
1485:Swiss rail network
1272:to Ostermundigen.
1034:from Bern via Belp
695:RBS line from Bern
1494:978-3-909111-74-9
1389:978-3-89494-130-7
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1118:Scherzligen
1094:559.2 m
848:Allmendingen
306:to Solothurn
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1339:Bern S-Bahn
851:(1922–1982)
106:Track gauge
89:Line length
58:Switzerland
1506:Categories
1357:References
1317:Operations
1301:Red Bridge
1243:Bödelibahn
1198:Lötschberg
337:Red Bridge
1454:Trüb 1988
1442:Trüb 1988
1362:Footnotes
1323:InterCity
1231:Lake Thun
926:Wichtrach
901:Münsingen
822:to Luzern
788:Worb Dorf
164:Route map
84:Technical
33:Bern–Thun
1327:EuroCity
1235:Därligen
750:Gümligen
563:to Olten
131: in
50:Overview
1464:Sources
1337:of the
1216:History
1202:Simplon
1001:Uttigen
876:Rubigen
786:RBS to
126:⁄
63:Termini
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1331:BLS AG
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1086:137.02
1028:134.10
996:131.10
951:Kiesen
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871:119.04
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816:115.50
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632:quarry
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511:108.98
470:108.58
465:103.33
374:1080 m
257:106.13
179:Legend
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55:Locale
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1489:ISBN
1384:ISBN
1226:Thun
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