Göschenen railway station

Göschenen railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Uri and municipality of Göschenen. Situated on the Gotthard railway, at the northern mouth of the Gotthard Tunnel, the station is also the junction point with the Schöllenenbahn.[1][2]

Göschenen
Göschenen station with MGB train at centre left and Swiss Federal Railways tracks at centre right.
LocationBahnhofplatz 1
Göschenen
Switzerland
Coordinates46°39′56.92″N 8°35′19.66″E
Elevation1,106 m (3,629 ft)[1]
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Distance
Train operators
ConnectionsPostauto and local buses
History
Opened1 June 1882 (1882-06-01)
Electrified18 October 1920 (1920-10-18)
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station
Erstfeld
towards Basel SBB
 InterRegio
IR 26
 Airolo
Terminus
Erstfeld
towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof
 InterRegio
IR 46
Preceding station TILO Following station
Erstfeld
Terminus
 RegioExpress
RE10
 Airolo
towards Milano Centrale
Preceding station Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Following station
Andermatt
Terminus
 Regio
 Terminus
Location
Göschenen
Location within Switzerland

The Gotthard railway connects Göschenen via Immensee with Zürich in the north, and via the Gotthard Rail Tunnel and Chiasso with Milan in the south. This very heavily trafficked standard gauge line is operated by the Swiss Federal Railways.[3]

The Schöllenenbahn, a very short metre gauge branch line, operates between Göschenen and Andermatt, just 3.75 kilometres (2.33 mi) to the south. It is operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), and connects the Gotthard railway with southern Switzerland's metre gauge railway network.[4]

Services

The station is served by an hourly InterRegio train (weekends during the winter only) between Airolo and Arth-Goldau, which continues alternately either to Basel SBB or to Zürich HB, a hourly RegioExpress train from Erstfeld to Milano Centrale in Italy, and by two trains per hour on the Schöllenenbahn.[5][6]

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References
  1. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 34. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  2. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
  3. Moser, Beat; Pfeiffer, Peter (2004). SBB Gotthardbahn (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-121-8.
  4. Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2007). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). 2. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 978-3-89610-175-4.
  5. "Visp - Brig - Oberwald - Andermatt - Göschenen" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  6. "Erstfeld - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.


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