Göschenen railway station
Gotthard Railway, Schöllenenbahn
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The Göschenen railway station is the Uri community Göschenen and is located on the Gotthard line. Today, he is served by trains of the SBB and the MGB.
- 3.1 SBB
- 3.2 MGB
History
The station was built by the north portal in 1882 following the opening of the Gotthard tunnel immediately to the north. He developed into a transportation hub, in 1917 Schöllenenbahn was connecting from Göschenen to Andermatt. From now Göschenen tied it in winter to international train traffic, which meant that at times international express trains appealed for a stop.
Plant
Railway Station
The plant comprises on the SBB side three unincorporated Quiet ( a side and a central platform with the numbering 1 ( side platform), 2 and 3); The trains keep on track on the middle platform. The track 2 is used for the traffic direction Erstfeld, the track 3 for the traffic direction Airolo. In addition, several freight tracks, the earlier part of the car train through the Gotthard Tunnel, which was in 1981 replaced by the Gotthard road tunnel, served exist. The loading dock is still intact, also the access route, which has its own entrance to the tunnel. The former buffet has been replaced by a take-away kiosk.
MGB Station
The MGB station also includes three tracks, with numbers 11, 12 and 13, the track 13 leads to the depot and forms with the sparsely used track 12 has a central platform, which can only be reached by rail crossings. Most of the traffic is handled on track 11, which is located at the rear of the SBB station building and offers a level -free transition to the track 1. The parking and freight loading of the MGB are on the other side of the railway station. The access route to there is through the north portal of the Gotthard tunnel.
Operation
SBB
Since the gradual suppression of the international long-distance train station is operated almost exclusively of inter-regional trains. The SBB today offers a InterRegio hour Arth -Goldau - Locarno, which runs alternately to Basel SBB ( via Lucerne ) or Zurich HB. Since June 2011, in the morning holding a Euro City, which is driven with a conventional covering material, on the way from Zurich HB to Milan.
By setting the SBB Regional traffic on the Gotthard railway traffic this was shifted in 1991 between Flüelen and Airolo on the road. Since 1998, the regional trains ( S 2, the light rail train today ) run back to Erstfeld.
- IR Basel SBB -Lucerne- Arth -Goldau - Göschenen -Bellinzona - Locarno ( every two hours )
- IR Zurich HB train - Arth -Goldau - Göschenen -Bellinzona - Locarno ( every two hours )
- EC Zurich HB−Zug−Arth-Goldau−Göschenen−Airolo–Biasca–Bellinzona−Bellinzona−Lugano−Mendrisio−Chiasso−Como−Milano C. ( only in this direction )
MGB
- R Göschenen -Andermatt (hourly)
- R Göschenen -Andermatt -Brig - Visp - Realp (hourly)
The Matterhorn -Gotthard -Bahn provides two trains per hour to Andermatt, which run every hour each - to each other but in irregular 19/41-Takt. One of the pairs of trains each has in Göschenen via a connection to the Gotthard inter-regional, the other is led by a 15-minute stay in Andermatt over the Goms and Brig to Visp and offers in Andermatt connection to the regional train to Disentis.
Future
The construction of the NEAT Gotthard Base Tunnel, Bodio from Erstfeld to the majority of SBB trains will no longer operate via Göschenen. Therefore, the future of the mountain route is uncertain. However, a recording will be discussed in the UNESCO World Heritage Site at the time.