Leading railway stations in Europe 2023, based on passenger experience

In 2023, two of five of the best railway stations in Europe were located in Switzerland. Based on passenger experience, the best train station in Europe was the central station of Zürich, Switzerland with an index score of 102, where 123 points would be the maximum score. The train station in Bern ranked fourth, scoring 90 points.Rail passenger traffic in EuropeIn 2021, passengers traveled around 345 billion passenger kilometers on railways in Europe. Rail passenger traffic had been inching upwards between 2004 and 2019 but then dropped off in 2020. The travel restriction due to the COVID-19 pandemic led to a 48 percent drop in rail passenger-kilometer between 2019 and 2020. Rail passenger numbers rose slightly in 2021 but remained at a substantially lower level than pre-pandemic. Main passenger rail companies in EuropeBased on passenger traffic, the leader of the rail passenger transport in Europe is the SNCF. The French national state-owned company recorded nearly 75 billion passenger kilometers in 2021, and it was followed by the German rail company Deutsche Bahn, with a passenger traffic of around 46 billion passenger kilometers during the same year.

于2023年，欧洲五大火车站中有两座位于瑞士。依据旅客体验评分，瑞士苏黎世中央火车站荣膺欧洲最佳火车站，其指数得分为102分，最高分为123分。伯尔尼火车站位列第四，得分为90分。在欧洲，铁路旅客运输方面，法国国家国有企业SNCF位居首位，2021年旅客运输量达到约750亿乘客公里，紧随其后的是德国铁路公司Deutsche Bahn，同年旅客运输量约为460亿乘客公里。