Olten railway station explained

Style:	Swiss Federal Railways
Olten
Type:	Central pass-through railway station
Address:	Bahnhofstrasse 22
Borough:	Olten
Country:	Switzerland
Owned:	Swiss Federal Railways
Distance:	39.2km (24.4miles) from
Platforms:	6
Tracks:	10
Connections:	BOGG and PostAuto buses^[1]
Zone:	520 (Tarifverbund A-Welle)^[2]
Passengers:	80,900 per weekday^[3]
Pass Year:	2023
Pass System:	SBB
Pass Rank:	9 out 1'159
Services Collapsible:	yes
Mapframe:	yes

Olten railway station (German: Bahnhof Olten) is a major hub railway station in the canton of Solothurn, Switzerland, at the junction of lines to Zürich, Bern, Basel, Lucerne and Biel. As a result, Olten is a railway town and was also the site of the main workshop of the Swiss Central Railway (German: Schweizerische Centralbahn), which became a major workshop for the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). It is the southern terminus of the Basel Regional S-Bahn S3 and S9 lines, the northern terminus of the Lucerne S-Bahn S8 line, and the western terminus of the Aargau S-Bahn S26 line.

Although Olten only has 18,000 inhabitants, the station is used each day by about 80,000 passengers and is one of the 10 busiest in Switzerland, busier than even Geneva. It serves 1,100 trains a day, making it one of the busiest in Switzerland.^[4]

Services

As a major railway junction, Olten serves numerous through trains. In addition, a number of local services originate at Olten:^[5]

• EuroCity / InterCity / Intercity Express (ICE): half-hourly service to . Most northbound trains terminate in Basel; a single EuroCity continues to Hamburg-Altona, another to Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, and two ICEs continue to Berlin Ostbahnhof. Most southbound trains continue to ; one train every two hours continues to . Three EuroCity trains continue from Brig to .
• EuroCity / InterCity / InterRegio: hourly service to and every two hours to or ; two trains per day continue from Lugano to Milano Centrale.
• InterCity: half-hourly service between and Zürich Hauptbahnhof; hourly service to,, and .
• InterRegio: three trains per hour to, two trains per hour to Zürich Hauptbahnhof, and one train per hour to .
• RegioExpress:
  • hourly service to .
  • hourly service to .
• : half-hourly service to, with trains continuing from Solothurn to,, or .
• Aargau S-Bahn:
  • : hourly service to Baden and half-hourly service to .
  • : hourly service to Rotkreuz.
  • : half-hourly service between and Turgi; every other train continues from Zofingen to Sursee.
• Basel trinational S-Bahn:
  • : half-hourly service to Laufen and hourly service to Porrentruy.
  • : hourly service to Sissach.

See also

• History of rail transport in Switzerland
• Rail transport in Switzerland

External links

• • Interactive station plan (Olten)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Netzplan Region Olten . A-Welle . 15 December 2019 . 5 July 2020.
2. Web site: Zonenplan . A-Welle . 30 September 2019 . 25 July 2020 . de.
3. Web site: Passagierfrequenz (2023) . . Lausanne, Switzerland . 2023 . data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL . 4 August 2024.
4. Today's Railways Europe. SBB modernises Olten station. 57. November 2008. 155.
5. Web site: Abfahrt: Bahnhof Olten . de . 13 December 2020 . 10 January 2021 . Swiss Federal Railways.