Schwyz railway station

Schwyz
Schwyz
	The station building in 2010
General information
Location	Bahnhofstrasse; Schwyz ; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°1′35.004″N8°37′55.675″E / 47.02639000°N 8.63213194°E
Elevation	455 m (1,493 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Gotthard line
Distance	17.0 km (10.6 mi) from Immensee
Platforms	2
Tracks	3
Train operators	Südostbahn ; Swiss Federal Railways ;
Connections	AAGS buses
Other information
Fare zone	670 (Tarifverbund Schwyz [ de ])
History
Opened	1882
Passengers
2018	3,200 per weekday
Services
Location
Location

Last updated October 09, 2024

Schwyz railway station (German : Bahnhof Schwyz) is a railway station in the municipality of Schwyz, the capital of the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland. Opened in 1882, it is owned and operated by the Swiss Federal Railways, and forms part of the Gotthard railway, which links northern Switzerland and Immensee with Chiasso and Italy, via the Gotthard Tunnel.^[1]^[5]

History

Schwyz railway station was opened in 1882, as the Gotthardbahn began operations. When the Gotthardbahn was nationalised in 1909, the station came into the ownership of the SBB-CFF-FFS.

In 1900, the Schwyzer Strassenbahnen electric tramway opened their first line, from the station to the Schwyz Post stop in the town centre. In 1914 and 1915, the line was extended through the town centre to Brunnen railway station and the Brunnen ferry terminal. The line closed in 1963, and was replaced by bus services.^[6]^[7]

In 1979 and 1980, the entire station was redeveloped. The station building was demolished and replaced with the present, post-modern buildings. Also, the platform system was renewed, and the sidings removed.^[6]

Facilities

The railway facilities at the station include four through tracks, three of which face a railway platform. However, only the island platform facing tracks 2 (towards Brunnen) and 3 (towards Steinen and Arth-Goldau) is used for scheduled passenger trains.^[8] The platform nearest the station building (Swiss Standard German : Hausperron), facing track 1, is only 100 metres (330 ft) long and has no regularly scheduled trains.^[9] Tracks 1 and track 4, which has no platform, are used for overtaking trains.

There are also still some sidings and connecting tracks, mainly for the Schwyzerland cheese factory, KIBAG, Arthur Weber Stahl and Zeughausareal Seewen.

Services

As of the December 2020 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Schwyz:^[10]

InterRegio: hourly service between Locarno and Arth-Goldau; trains continue to Basel SBB or Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
Zug Stadtbahn S2 : hourly service between Baar Lindenpark and Erstfeld.
Lucerne S-Bahn S3 : hourly service between Lucerne and Brunnen.

Bus traffic

The bus station is next to the station building and has three bus platforms. Several bus routes operated by the Auto AG Schwyz company link the station with the Schwyz town centre in about five minutes:

Line 1: Lauerz – Schwyz – Muotathal
Line 3: Seewen – Ibach – Schwyz – Rickenbach

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References

1 2 Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 23. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
↑ "Liniennetz Schwyz–Weggis" (PDF) (in German). Auto AG Schwyz. 13 December 2020. p. 3. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
↑ "Tarifzonen" (in German). Tarifverbund Schwyz [ de ]. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
↑ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
↑ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
1 2 "Dorfgeschichte" [Village history]. seewen-schwyz.ch (in German). Einwohnervereins Seewen/SZ. 2009. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
↑ "Altdorf–Flüelen". eingestellte-bahnen.ch (in German). Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
↑ "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Schwyz" (PDF) (in German). SBB. 11 December 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
↑ "Stop: platform length (body)". data.sbb.ch. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
↑ "Luzern – Küssnacht am Rigi – Arth-Goldau – Göschenen" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 3 November 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.

Bibliography

Moser, Beat; Pfeiffer, Peter (2004). SBB Gotthardbahn (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-121-8.

External links

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[saw-1] 1 2 Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 23. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

[2] "Liniennetz Schwyz–Weggis" (PDF) (in German). Auto AG Schwyz. 13 December 2020. p. 3. Retrieved 31 December 2020.

[3] "Tarifzonen" (in German). Tarifverbund Schwyz [ de ]. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.

[4] "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 31 December 2020.

[5] map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 28 September 2012.

[seewen-6] 1 2 "Dorfgeschichte" [Village history]. seewen-schwyz.ch (in German). Einwohnervereins Seewen/SZ. 2009. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2011.

[ebaf-7] "Altdorf–Flüelen". eingestellte-bahnen.ch (in German). Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

[8] "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Schwyz" (PDF) (in German). SBB. 11 December 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2023.

[9] "Stop: platform length (body)". data.sbb.ch. Retrieved 12 August 2023.

[fpf601-10] "Luzern – Küssnacht am Rigi – Arth-Goldau – Göschenen" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 3 November 2020. Retrieved 31 December 2020.

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