Olten railway station

Olten
Olten station
Location
Address Bahnhofstrasse 22
4600 Olten
Municipality Olten
District Olten
Canton Solothurn
Country Switzerland
Line(s) Olten - Basel SBB
Olten - Zürich HB
Olten - Bern - Lausanne
Olten - Luzern
Olten - Biel/Bienne - Genève-Aéroport
Other information
Owner SBB-CFF-FFS
Line ops SBB-CFF-FFS
Connections
Location map
Olten
Olten (Switzerland)

Olten station 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 Schweizerische Centralbahn (German: Swiss Central Railway), which became a major workshop for the Swiss Federal Railways.

Although Olten only has 18,000 people, the station is used each day by about 80,000 passengers and is one of the 20 busiest in Switzerland. It is served by 1,100 trains a day, making it one of the busiest in Switzerland.[1]

References

  1. ^ SBB modernises Olten station. Today's Railways Europe. November 2008. p. 57.