Flüelen railway station

Coordinates: 46°54′6.228″N 8°37′27.491″E / 46.90173000°N 8.62430306°E / 46.90173000; 8.62430306
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Flüelen
Two-story building with flat roof and adjoining clock tower
The station building in 2015
General information
LocationBahnhofstrasse 1
Flüelen
Switzerland
Coordinates46°54′6.228″N 8°37′27.491″E / 46.90173000°N 8.62430306°E / 46.90173000; 8.62430306
Elevation436 metres (1,430 ft)[1]
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)Gotthard line
Platforms3
Train operatorsSwiss Federal Railways
Connections
Services
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Location
Flüelen is located in Switzerland
Flüelen
Flüelen
Location within Switzerland
Flüelen is located in Canton of Uri
Flüelen
Flüelen
Flüelen (Canton of Uri)

Flüelen railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Uri and municipality of Flüelen. It is located on the Gotthard railway. The station is situated between the parallel Axenstrasse, the main road through Flüelen, and Bahnhofstrasse, with the main station buildings on Bahnhofstrasse.[2]

Flüelen is served by an hourly InterRegio train between Erstfeld and Arth-Goldau which continues alternately either to Basel SBB or to Zürich HB, and by line S2 of the Stadtbahn Zug, which operates hourly to Rotkreuz. Several InterCity trains that run from Zürich to Lugano also stop at the station.[3]

Flüelen pier, on Lake Lucerne, lies on the opposite side of Bahnhofstrasse, allowing connections between trains and the boat services provided by the Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees (Lake Lucerne Navigation Company; SGV). This interchange forms a key part of the William Tell Express, a tourist oriented combined paddle steamer and rail service that connects Lucerne and Locarno.[4][5]

Buses operated by PostBus Switzerland serve a stop in front of the station in Bahnhofstrasse. Local buses operated by Auto AG Uri serve a stop on Axenstrasse, accessible from the station subway.

The station building is included in the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance. Between 1906 and 1951, the station was also the terminus of the Altdorf–Flüelen tramway, a metre gauge tramway.[1][6]

References

  1. ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers+Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 23. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  2. ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
  3. ^ "Luzern - Rotkreuz - Arth-Goldau - Erstfeld" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  4. ^ Allen, Cecil J. (1958). Switzerland's Amazing Railways. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. p. 31.
  5. ^ "Wilhelm Tell Express". Swiss Federal Railways. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
  6. ^ "Schweizerisches Inventar der Kulturgüter von nationaler Bedeutung - Uri" [Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance - Uri] (PDF) (in German). Swiss Confederation. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-11. Retrieved 2012-08-30.

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