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Encyclopedia > Bern Rail Station

Bern Rail Station is a Swiss Federal Railways station in Bern, Switzerland. Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) is the national railway company of Switzerland. ... Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ... The city of Bern, English traditionally Berne (Bernese German Bärn , German Bern , French Berne , Italian Berna , Romansh Berna ), is the Bundesstadt (capital) of Switzerland, and is the fourth most populous Swiss city (after Zürich, Geneva and Basel). ...


It is the nearest station to the University of Berne in the Länggasse quarter. There is a shuttlebus to Bern Airport from the station. Its IATA Airport Code is ZDJ as American Airlines codeshares on the Swiss Federal Railways service from Zurich International Airport in Zürich to Bern Rail Station. The University of Berne is a university in the Swiss capital of Berne. ... Berne Airport, which serves Berne, Switzerland, is actually closer to the village of Belp. ... An IATA airport code, known by the IATA as an IATA location identifier or, simply, a location identifier [1], is a three-letter alphabetic code designating many airports around the world. ... Note: For the arenas named after this company, see American Airlines Arena (Miami, Florida), or American Airlines Center (Dallas, Texas). ... Zurich Kloten Unique Airport Zurich International Airport, also called Kloten Airport, is located at 47°29′ N 8°32′ E in Kloten, canton of Zurich, Switzerland and managed by Unique Airport. ... Zürich (in English often Zurich, IPA ) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ...


The station has recently (up to December 2003) been renovated and partially redesigned. It now contains Rail City, a shopping center open longer that the other shops in town, and over the weekend. This is possible as the shop opening laws of the city of Berne do not apply on Swiss Federal Railway property.



 

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