Murten/Morat railway station

Murten/Morat
Murten/Morat
	The station building in 2019
General information
Location	Murten; Switzerland
Coordinates	46°55′31.249″N 7°6′55.019″E / 46.92534694°N 7.11528306°E
Elevation	453 m (1,486 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Fribourg–Ins line; Palézieux–Lyss railway line;
Distance	22.2 km (13.8 mi) from Fribourg/Freiburg; 76.5 km (47.5 mi) from Lausanne;
Platforms	2 side platforms; 1 island platform;
Tracks	4
Train operators	BLS AG; Swiss Federal Railways; Transports publics Fribourgeois;
Connections	PostAuto AG bus line; Transports publics Fribourgeois buses;
Construction
Parking	74
Bicycle facilities	200
Other information
Station code	MRT
Fare zone	50 (frimobil [de])
History
Previous names	Murten (until 2012)
Passengers
2022	2'400 per weekday (BLS, SBB, TPF (TPF partly recorded))
Services
	Terminus
Location
Location

Murten/Morat railway station (German: Bahnhof Murten, French: Gare de Morat) is a railway station in the municipality of Murten, in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. It is located at the southern junction of the standard gauge Fribourg–Ins and Palézieux–Lyss lines of Swiss Federal Railways.^[1]

Services

As of the December 2023 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Murten/Morat:^[6]^[7]^[8]

Bern S-Bahn: S5: hourly service to Bern and rush-hour service to Payerne.
RER Vaud R9: hourly service between Lausanne and Kerzers.
RER Fribourg S20 / S21:
- Weekdays: half-hourly service between Ins and Romont FR; S20 trains continue to Neuchâtel.
- Weekends: half-hourly service between Ins and Fribourg/Freiburg; S21 trains continue to Romont FR.

^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 18. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Plan régional | Regionalnetz" (PDF) (in French and German). tpf. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
^ "Liniennetz Bern West" (PDF) (in German). Libero. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
^ "Plan des zones / Zonenplan" (PDF) (in French and German). frimobil. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
^ "Passagierfrequenz (2022)". Murten/Morat, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2022. Retrieved 17 May 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
^ "Neuchâtel - Ins - Murten - Fribourg/Freiburg (RER Fribourg | Freiburg, lignes S20, S21)" (PDF) (in French). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 18 September 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
^ "Payerne - Murten/Morat - Kerzers - Bern" (PDF) (in German and French). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 21 September 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
^ "Abfahrt/Départ: Bahnhof/Gare de Murten/Morat" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German and French). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2024.