Brig railway station

Brig
The metre gauge platforms at Brig station.
Location	Bahnhof 1, 3900 Brig-Glis, Valais, Switzerland
Coordinates	46°19′10″N 07°59′17″E / 46.31944°N 7.98806°E / 46.31944; 7.98806Coordinates: 46°19′10″N 07°59′17″E / 46.31944°N 7.98806°E / 46.31944; 7.98806
Elevation	671.7 m (2,204 ft)
Operated by	SBB-CFF-FFS BLS AG Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Line(s)	Lausanne–Brig Milan–Domodossola–Brig Bern–Lötschberg–Brig Brig–Visp–Zermatt (BVZ) Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO)
Distance	43.98 km (27.33 mi) from Zermatt
Connections	Postauto buses Local buses
History
Opened	1906
Electrified	1 October 1929 (1929-10-01) (BVZ)
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station Visp toward Romanshorn SBB-CFF-FFS InterCity Terminus Visp toward Basel SBB SBB-CFF-FFS InterCity Terminus Lalden toward Bern BLS RegioExpress Terminus Visp toward Zermatt Glacier Express Swiss timetable 144 Fiesch toward St. Moritz/Davos Platz Visp toward Zermatt Regional services Swiss timetable 140 Terminus Visp Terminus Regional services Swiss timetable 142 Bitsch toward Göschenen
Location
Brig railway station Brig railway station (Switzerland)

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 1906, it is adjacent to the northern portal of the Simplon Tunnel, and is served by three standard gauge lines and two metre gauge lines.

Two of the three standard gauge lines serving Brig were opened simultaneously in 1906.

One of them is the Simplon railway, which links (Genève-Aéroport, Genève and) Lausanne on Lake Geneva with Brig, via Sion and Visp. The other is the Milan–Domodossola railway, which, as its name suggests, links Milano Centrale in Italy with Domodossola, also in Italy. In 1906, this line was extended to Brig upon the opening of the Simplon Tunnel.

The third of Brig's standard gauge lines is 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 Neue Eisenbahn-Alpentransversale or NEAT (pronounced neh-aht; literally: New Alpine Railway Crossing) railway, connecting (Bern and) Spiez with Visp, near Brig, via the Lötschberg Base Tunnel. Trains travelling along the NEAT line to Visp usually then continue on to Brig via the Simplon line.