Grenchen Süd train station

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Grenchen south
Track systems in the area of ​​the train station (2014)
Track systems in the area of ​​the train station (2014)
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation GS
IBNR 8500202
location
City / municipality Grenchen
Canton Solothurn
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 596 948  /  226 414 coordinates: 47 ° 11 '19 "  N , 7 ° 23' 54"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred ninety-six thousand nine hundred forty-eight  /  226,414
Height ( SO ) 440  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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Entrance building of Grenchen Süd train station (2016)
Grenchen train station during the national strike in 1918

The station Grenchen South is one of two railway stations of Grenchen . It is located on the Jura-Südfuss line operated by SBB .

location

The station is centrally located in the urban area and represents the lower limit of the city center. South of the station is primarily the "rural" part of Grenchen, the Grenchner Witi with numerous farms and fields and the Grenchen airfield and the Aare as a natural border to the neighboring town of Arch . To the north is the city center, about a five-minute walk away. The station itself is located almost exactly in an east-west direction, to the north is the “main entrance” (towards the city), to the south the station can only be reached on foot through an underpass.

investment

The station has two platforms with three tracks, with the third track being a parking and waiting track. The northern platform 1 serves trains in the direction of Zurich , the southern platform 2 trains in the direction of Biel . Track 3 is located south of the platform to track 2 and is rarely used. An underpass leads under the station, with which one can get south under the station but also to tracks 2 and 3. The infrastructure of the station includes a serviced SBB ticket hall with a travel agency, an Avec kiosk, toilets and parking spaces. There has also been a bus shelter on platform 1 since 2010. Three ticket machines enable tickets to be purchased and numerous other services outside of the station's opening hours. The station has a seldom used, but still in service, goods shed with 2 separate tracks, which finally lane to the east to track 1 before it finally leaves the station.

business

railroad

Long-distance connections:

Regional traffic:

  • Regio Biel / Bienne-Solothurn-Olten

The station itself has no S-Bahn connections, but very good ones, as there are direct connections to two stations with access to the Bern S-Bahn :

City bus

The bus company Grenchen and the surrounding area serves the station with every line; Bahnhofstrasse is the official main transfer point.

taxi

One of the two taxi ranks in the city of Grenchen is located on Bahnhofstrasse, directly at the train station.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Grenchen and SBB are modernizing the pedestrian underpass , SBB press release, February 21, 2007, accessed on June 4, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c Successful renovation - south station in Grenchen shines in new splendor , Grenchen.net, January 7, 2010, accessed on June 4, 2011
  3. ^ Grenchen Süd: Renovated train station building opened , Bahnonline.ch, December 15, 2009, accessed on October 15, 2018