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Thunersee railway

Lake Thun railway line
Aroponto inter Interlaken kaj Unterseen 255.JPG
Railway bridge over the Aare in Interlaken
Overview
Locale Canton of Bern, Switzerland
Termini Thun
Interlaken
Operation
Owner BLS AG
Technical
Line length 27.9 km (17.3 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in)
Electrification 15 kV 16 23 Hz AC supplied by overhead line
Route diagram
SBB from Bern–Münsingen, BLS-GTB from Bern–Belp
and BLS-BTB from Burgdorf-Konolfingen
137,02 Thun 560 m above the  sea
137,59
0,06
km-Wechsel, Eigentumsgrenze SBB/BLS
1,3 Dürrenast 564 m above the  sea
3,1 Gwatt 561 m above the  sea
4,4 Gwattstutz 576 m above the  sea
Kanderbrücke Einigen88 m (li) / 86 m (re)
5,4 Einigen 590 m above the  sea
6,7 Kumm 607 m above the  sea
8,2 Spiezmoos Nord 626 m above the  sea
BLS-SEZ from Zweisimmen
9,7 Spiez 628 m above the  sea
BLS Lötschberg line to Brig
11,8 Faulensee 603 m above the  sea
Krattiggraben143 m
Krattighalde341 m
15,3 Krattighalde 560 m above the  sea
Leissigbad270 m
16,3 Leissigen 570 m above the  sea
22,0 Därligen 562 m above the  sea
Därligen125 m
26,0 Interlaken West 564 m above the  sea
Untere Aarebrücke Interlaken76 m
Obere Aarebrücke Interlaken83 m
27,9 Interlaken Ost 567 m above the  sea
ZB Brünig line to Lucerne and
BOB to Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen
Werkstätte Bönigen 567 m above the  sea
Bridge over the Lütschine? m
30,4 Lütschinenbrücke
31,0 Bönigen

The Lake Thun railway line is a railway line in the Swiss canton of Bern. It links the towns of Thun, Spiez and Interlaken, running principally along the southern shore of Lake Thun. The line was opened in 1893 by the Lake Thun Railway (German: Thunerseebahn, TSB) company, but incorporates much of the earlier Bödeli Railway (German: Bödelibahn) dating back to 1872.

The line is 27.9-kilometre (17.3 mi) long, and is currently owned and operated by the BLS AG railway company. Besides traffic to and from Interlaken, the section of line between Thun and Spiez also carries heavy traffic to and from the Lötschberg line.

The history of the Lake Thun line is linked to that of the shipping services on Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, which date back to at least 1834, when the first steamship was introduced. The two lakes are linked by a 5.5 km (3.4 mi) stretch of the Aare through Interlaken, but the river is not navigable, dropping some 6 metres (20 ft) and passing over several weirs.

In 1872, the first part of the Bödeli Railway was built, from Därligen, on Lake Thun, to what is now Interlaken West station. In 1874, it was extended, via what is now Interlaken Ost station, to Bönigen, on Lake Brienz. The line was not connected to any other railway, and served to connect the shipping on the two lakes to each other, and to Interlaken. The route of the Bödeli Railway crosses the Aare twice, using bridges with little headroom beneath them, and it has been suggested that this was done deliberately in order to dissuade attempts to canalise the river and thus maintain the railway's role.


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