Schwyz railway station

Schwyz
Three-story building with flat roof
The station building in 2010
General information
LocationBahnhofstrasse
Schwyz
Switzerland
Coordinates47°1′35.004″N 8°37′55.675″E / 47.02639000°N 8.63213194°E / 47.02639000; 8.63213194
Elevation455 m (1,493 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)Gotthard line
Distance17.0 km (10.6 mi) from Immensee[1]
Platforms2
Tracks3
Train operators
ConnectionsAAGS buses[2]
Other information
Fare zone670 (Tarifverbund Schwyz [de])[3]
History
Opened1882 (1882)
Passengers
20183,200 per weekday[4]
Services
Preceding station Südostbahn Following station
Arth-Goldau
towards Basel SBB
 IR 26 Brunnen
towards Locarno
Arth-Goldau
towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof
 IR 46
Preceding station Zug Stadtbahn Following station
Steinen
towards Baar Lindenpark
 S2 Brunnen
towards Erstfeld
Preceding station Lucerne S-Bahn Following station
Steinen
towards Lucerne
 S3 Brunnen
Terminus
Location
Map

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]

The station is located in the village of Seewen in the middle of the Schwyz valley, about 2 km (1.2 mi) northwest of the town centre, between the Grosser Mythen and the Urmiberg.

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, the following services stop at Schwyz:[10]

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:

See also

References

  1. ^ a b 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.
  6. ^ a b "Dorfgeschichte" [Village history]. seewen-schwyz.ch (in German). Einwohnervereins Seewen/SZ. 2009. Archived from the original on 9 September 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  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.
  10. ^ "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.
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