Murten/Morat railway station

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]

Murten/Morat
The station building in 2019
Location	Murten Switzerland
Coordinates	46°55′31.249″N 7°6′55.019″E
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Fribourg–Ins line Palézieux–Lyss railway line
Distance	22.2 km (13.8 mi) from Fribourg 76.5 km (47.5 mi) from Lausanne [1]
Train operators	BLS AG Swiss Federal Railways Transports publics Fribourgeois
Connections	PostAuto Schweiz and Transports publics Fribourgeois buses[2]
Other information
Fare zone	50 (frimobil)[3]
Passengers
2018	2,000 per weekday[4]
Services
Preceding station RER Vaud Following station Faoug towards Lausanne S9 Muntelier-Löwenberg towards Kerzers Preceding station RER Fribourg Following station Münchenwiler-Courgevaux towards Fribourg S20 Sugiez towards Neuchâtel S21 Muntelier-Löwenberg towards Ins Preceding station Bern S-Bahn Following station Faoug towards Payerne S5 Muntelier-Löwenberg towards Bern
Location
Murten/Morat Location within Switzerland Murten/Morat Murten/Morat (Canton of Fribourg)

Services

The following services stop at Murten/Morat:[5]

• Bern S-Bahn: S5: hourly service to Bern and rush-hour service to Payerne.
• RER Vaud S9: hourly service between Lausanne and Kerzers.
• RER Fribourg S20/S21: half-hourly service between Fribourg and Ins; S20 trains continue to Neuchâtel.

References

1. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 18. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
2. "Liniennetz Freiburg Broye" (PDF) (in German). PostBus Switzerland. October 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
3. "Plan des zones" (PDF) (in French). frimobil. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
4. "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
5. "Payerne - Murten/Morat - Kerzers - Bern" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 21 October 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2020.

External links

• Media related to Murten/Morat railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Murten/Morat railway station – SBB