Brunnen railway station

'Brunnen railway station is a railway station serving the resort of Brunnen, in the Swiss canton of Schwyz and municipality of Ingenbohl. It is located on the Gotthard railway, and is served by long-distance trains as well as by commuter and suburban trains.[1][2]

The station looking north, with the viaduct carrying Schwyzerstrasse across the line.

Brunnen
Brunnen station looking south, with a passing ETR 470 train to the left and a calling S3 train to the right.
Location	Ingenbohl Switzerland
Coordinates	46°59′57.019″N 8°36′36.148″E
Elevation	435 metres (1,427 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Gotthard line
Platforms	4
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	SGV ferries Auto AG Schwyz buses
History
Opened	1882 (1882)
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Schwyz towards Basel SBB InterRegio IR 26 Flüelen towards Airolo Schwyz towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof InterRegio IR 46 Preceding station Zug Stadtbahn Following station Schwyz towards Rotkreuz S 2 South Sisikon towards Flüelen Preceding station Lucerne S-Bahn Following station Schwyz towards Lucerne S3 Terminus
Location
Brunnen Location within Switzerland Show map of Switzerland Brunnen Brunnen (Canton of Schwyz) Show map of Canton of Schwyz

History

After some argument between the inhabitants of Brunnen and those of Ingenbohl about the location,[3] the station was opened in 1882, when the Gotthardbahn opened the section from Immensee to Bellinzona. In 1903 the station was rebuilt because the older station had become too small for the amount of traffic.[4] In 2004, the station became part of the networks of the S-Bahn Luzern and Stadtbahn Zug.

Services

In the 1960s and '70s, Brunnen hosted international trains to Lecce, in Italy, and Hoek van Holland, in the Netherlands.

Today Brunnen is served by an hourly InterRegio train between Erstfeld and Arth-Goldau which continues alternately either to Basel SBB or to Zürich HB. The station is also served by line S2 of the Zug Stadtbahn, which operates hourly between Zug, Arth-Goldau and Flüelen, and is the terminus of line S3 of the Lucerne S-Bahn, which operates hourly to and from Lucerne.[5]

Goods station

Until 2004 there was a Service Center of SBB Cargo to the north of the station. Today, the buildings are partly used by a Kart Racing track. The remainder of the building is scheduled to be demolished in the near future, in order to allow the construction of a new block of houses.

References

1. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-18.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers+Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 23. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
3. Brunnen-Ingenbohl, üsi Gmeind, üses Dorf, üsi Lüüt, p.58
4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-11-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
5. "Luzern - Rotkreuz - Arth-Goldau - Erstfeld" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2020.

External links

• Media related to Brunnen railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Brunnen railway station – SBB