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Railway network

The “railway network” basic data set depicts the network of railbound transport under federal supervision in Switzerland. It includes standard-gauge and narrow-gauge lines of railways, trams and rack railways that transport people regularly and for commercial purposes or that enable network access. It does not include sidings or sections of funicular railway (separate ropeway database), model railways, children's railways, railway tours or industrial railways.

Simple

Alternate title

Railway network

Date (Creation)
2014-01-01T00:00:00
Identifier
ch.bav.schienennetz

Status
On going

Owner

Federal Office of Transport FOT
Mühlestrasse 6
Bern
3003
CH
+41 58 462 57 11
https://www.bav.admin.ch/en

Point of contact

Section Railway Network FOT
Bern
Bundesamt für Verkehr
3003
+41 58 462 57 11
Topic category
  • P Transportation

Extent

Extent

Description

Switzerland (extent of the railway network with areas close to the border)

Geographic identifier
CH

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Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
Duration of Conservation
50
Comment on Duration of Conservation

Bewertung analog zu 98.2

Appraisal of Archival Value
A
Reason for Archiving Value
Evidence of business practice
Comment on Archival Value

Bewertung analog zu 98.2

geocat.ch
  • railway track

  • Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation

  • opendata.swiss

  • official geodata

GEMET
  • railway

geocat.ch
  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure

Resource constraints

Use constraints
License
Other constraints
Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.

Associated resource

Title

Railway network and public transport stops

Association Type
Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Basic Geodata
true
Basic Geodata ID

98.1

Basic Geodata Legal Level
Federal
Distribution format
  • ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)

  • INTERLIS 2 (XTF)

  • MapInfo TAB file (TAB)

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

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Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.bav.schienennetz

WMS-FSDI service, layer "Railway network"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

ch.bav.schienennetz

WMTS-FSDI service, layer "Railway network"

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/en/home/modes-of-transport/railways.html

Information about the tasks of the FOT in the railways context.

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/de/home/allgemeine-themen/fachthemen/geoinformation/geobasisdaten/schienennetz.html

Dokumentation der Geodaten BAV

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

https://data.geo.admin.ch/browser/#/collections/ch.bav.schienennetz?.language=en

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

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RESTful API from geo.admin.ch

Reference system identifier
EPSG:21781

Reference system identifier
CH1903+ / LV95 (EPSG:2056)

Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown

Metadata

Metadata identifier
4545b545-cdc9-4713-809c-210ee84436b0

Language
Deutsch
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Français
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Italiano
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Language
Rumantsch
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

GIS Unit FOT
Bern
Bundesamt für Verkehr
3003
+41 58 462 57 11

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/4545b545-cdc9-4713-809c-210ee84436b0

Date info (Creation)
2007-11-29T12:00:00Z
Date info (Revision)
2026-06-15T09:31:41.051451Z

Metadata standard

Title

eCH-0271

 
 

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

railway
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure official geodata opendata.swiss railway track


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