Kriens Mattenhof railway station is a Swiss railway station in the municipality of Kriens in the canton of Lucerne. It is on the Brünig line of the Zentralbahn railway company, which links Lucerne and Interlaken, and is also used by trains of the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line.[1][2]
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 The station platform in 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Horwerstrasse Kriens Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°1′35.796″N 8°18′8.500″E / 47.02661000°N 8.30236111°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Zentralbahn | ||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Brünig line | ||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Zentralbahn | ||||||||||||||||||
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Immediately to the north of Kriens Mattenhof station, the railway enters a tunnel as far as the approaches to Lucerne station, calling at the underground Lucerne Allmend/Messe station on the way. This tunnel opened in November 2012, replacing a less direct surface alignment.[3]
Services
editAs of the December 2021 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Kriens Mattenhof:[4][5]
- Lucerne S-Bahn S4/S5: service every fifteen minutes between Lucerne and Hergiswil; from Hergiswil every half-hour to Giswil or Stans and every hour to Wolfenschiessen. The S41 provides additional weekday rush-hour service between Horw and Lucerne.
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station in 2021
References
edit- ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Ausbau Zentralbahn" [Zentralbahn Expansion] (in German). Archived from the original on 26 March 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2013.
- ^ "Luzern - Brünig - Interlaken" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
- ^ "Luzern - Stans - Engelberg" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 27 October 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
External links
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Media related to Kriens Mattenhof railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Kriens Mattenhof railway station – SBB
