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
Citation identifier
ch.bav.schienennetz

Collective title

Railway network and public transport stops
Status
On going
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Federal Office of Transport FOT

info@bav.admin.ch

Owner

Section Railway Network FOT

info@bav.admin.ch

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually

geocat.ch

  • railway track

  • Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation

  • opendata.swiss

  • official geodata

GEMET

  • railway

geocat.ch

  • FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
Use constraints
License
Other constraints
Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
Language
Deutsch
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Transportation

Extent

Description

Switzerland (extent of the railway network with areas close to the border)
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Geographic identifier
CH
Reference system identifier
EPSG:21781
Reference system identifier
CH1903+ / LV95 (EPSG:2056)
Geometric object type
Curve
Distribution format
Name Version

ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)

INTERLIS 2 (XTF)

MapInfo TAB file (TAB)
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

MAP:Preview

 		https://map.geo.admin.ch/?layers=ch.bav.schienennetz

Preview map.geo.admin.ch

OGC:WMTS

 		https://wmts.geo.admin.ch/EPSG/3857/1.0.0/WMTSCapabilities.xml?lang=de

ch.bav.schienennetz
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK

 		https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/de/home/verkehrstraeger/eisenbahn.html
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

CHTOPO:specialised-geoportal

 		https://www.bav.admin.ch/bav/de/home/allgemeine-themen/fachthemen/geoinformation/geobasisdaten/schienennetz.html
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-URL

 		https://data.geo.admin.ch/browser/#/collections/ch.bav.schienennetz?.language=en
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

ESRI:REST

 		https://api3.geo.admin.ch/rest/services/api/MapServer/ch.bav.schienennetz

RESTful API from geo.admin.ch

Conformance result

Date (Publication)

Metadata

File identifier
4545b545-cdc9-4713-809c-210ee84436b0 XML
Metadata language
Deutsch
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-12-15T10:05:39.257Z
Metadata standard name

GM03_2
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

GIS Unit FOT

gis@bav.admin.ch

Point of contact
Other language
Language Character encoding
French UTF8
Italian UTF8
English UTF8
Romansh UTF8
German UTF8
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET

railway
geocat.ch

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


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