Service to Brig began on 18 June 1878; it was at that time the eastern terminus of the Simplon Railway.[3] The opening of the Simplon Tunnel in 1906 extended the Simplon Railway southeast to Domodossola, in Italy.
Brig's other standard gauge line, the Lötschberg railway line, opened in 1913. It links Bern with Brig via the Lötschberg Pass, including the Lötschberg Tunnel. In 2007, this line was largely supplanted by the New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA),[4] connecting (Bern and) Spiez with Visp, near Brig, via the Lötschberg Base Tunnel. Trains travelling along the NRLA line to Visp usually then continue on to Brig via the Simplon line.
^"Liniennetz Brig und Umgebung" (PDF) (in German). PostAuto AG. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
^"Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Brig, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 23 June 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
^Stockmar, Joseph (1920). Histoire du chemin de fer du Simplon (PDF) (in French). Librairie Payot & Cie, Lausanne und Genf. p. 29. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^Swiss timetable 300.
^"Abfahrt: Bahnhof Brig" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
Further reading
Moser, Beat; Börret, Ralph; Küstner, Thomas (2005). Glacier Express: Von St. Moritz nach Zermatt (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-057-2.