Jura Foot Railway

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The Jura Foot Railway is a major Swiss rail line running along the southern foothills of the Jura Mountains, connecting key cities and towns in the western part of the country.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Jura Foot railway line 3
Jura Foot Railway canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf railway line
standard-gauge railway line
connectsCity Aarau
Biel/Bienne
Geneva
Lausanne
Neuchâtel
Olten
Solothurn
Yverdon-les-Bains
Zurich
connectsEconomicCenters Bern–Solothurn region via connections
Geneva metropolitan area
Lausanne–Morges agglomeration
surface form: Lausanne metropolitan area

Greater Zürich Area
surface form: Zurich metropolitan area
connectsLinguisticRegions Romandy and German-speaking Switzerland
connectsRegion Lake Geneva region
Mittelland
northwestern Switzerland
country Switzerland
electrification 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC overhead line
endPoint Zurich
formsPartOfCorridor international rail routes between France and eastern Switzerland
gauge 1,435 mm
hasDoubleTrackSections yes
hasRole bypass of the Gotthard north–south axis for some freight flows
historicalSignificance one of the earliest main lines in the Swiss rail network
importance one of the busiest railway corridors in Switzerland
isElectrified yes
isMajorAxisFor east–west rail traffic in Switzerland
languageRegion Romandy
surface form: French-speaking Switzerland

German-speaking Switzerland
locatedIn Western Switzerland
surface form: western Switzerland
operator Swiss Federal Railways
parallelTo Jura Mountains
partOf Swiss Federal Railways network
passesAlong Lake of Biel
surface form: Lake Biel

Lake Geneva
Lake Neuchâtel
lakes of western Switzerland
runsAlong southern foothills of the Jura Mountains
startPoint Geneva
terrainType foothill route
usedFor freight traffic
long-distance passenger services
regional passenger services

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

village of Ligerz railwayLine Jura Foot Railway
subject surface form: Ligerz
Biel/Bienne railway station isJunctionOf Jura Foot Railway
this entity surface form: Jura Foot railway line
Ligerz railway station railwayLine Jura Foot Railway
this entity surface form: Jura Foot railway line
Ligerz–Prêles funicular connectsToRailwayLine Jura Foot Railway
this entity surface form: Jura Foot railway line