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Distance: 28.0 km (17.4 mi) ... Interlaken Ost or Interlaken East is a railway station in the resort town of Interlaken in the Swiss ... on Lake Thun, to Interlaken, ...
Distance: 33.8 km (21.0 mi) ... Thun is a railway station in the town of Thun, ... and the Lake Thun line to Spiez and Interlaken. [1] [6] [7]
The station also provides an interchange with the local bus network provided by PostBus Switzerland and the regional bus line to Thun provided by Verkehrsbetriebe STI. Ships of the BLS-owned fleet on Lake Thun serve a quay at Interlaken West, which they access via the 2.75-kilometre (1.71 mi) long Interlaken ship canal.
The Lake Thun line is built to standard gauge and is electrified using the Swiss mainline standard of 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC supplied by overhead line. Between Thun and Spiez the line is double-tracked; from Spiez to Interlaken it is single track with passing loops.
Closer to Interlaken, the Harderkulm (1,321 m (4,334 ft)), just to the north of the town, and the Schynige Platte (1,967 m (6,453 ft)), just to the south, are also accessible by railway and provide extensive views of the higher mountains. Lake Thun and Lake Brienz are both close to the town, and the Aare flows east to west through the town.
Lake Thun (German: Thunersee) is an Alpine lake in the Bernese Oberland in Switzerland named after the city of Thun, on its northern shore. At 48.3 km 2 (18.6 sq mi) in surface area, it is the largest Swiss lake entirely within a single canton.
Upper Aare bridge Interlaken . 83 m. 28.0. Interlaken Ost: 567 m. ... This is a route-map template for the Lake Thun railway line, a railway in Switzerland.
Shipping services on Lake Thun date back to at least 1834, when the first steamship was introduced to connect the towns of Thun and Interlaken, at each end of the lake. . Interlaken is actually situated on an unnavigable section of the Aar river between Lake Brienz and Lake Thun, and initially services docked at Neuhaus, some 3 km (1.9 mi