Olten railway station


Olten railway 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 Swiss Central Railway, which became a major workshop for the Swiss Federal Railways. 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.

Services

As a major railway junction, Olten serves numerous through trains. In addition, a number of local services originate at Olten, including a nighttime services offered by the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund :
  • EuroCity / InterCity / Intercity Express : half-hourly service to. Most northbound trains terminate in Basel; a single EuroCity continues to Hamburg-Altona, another to Frankfurt 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/InterRegio: 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 two trains per day to.
  • * : hourly service to Sissach.
  • Zurich S-Bahn:
  • * : on Friday and Saturday night, hourly service to.