Brunnen railway station

Geschichte

Brunnen is a railway station serving the resort of Brunnen, in the Swiss canton of Schwyz and municipality of Ingenbohl. It is located on the Gotthard railway, and is served by long-distance trains as well as by commuter and suburban trains.HistoryAfter some argument between the inhabitants of Brunnen and those of Ingenbohl about the location, the station was opened in 1882, when the Gotthardbahn opened the section from Immensee to Bellinzona. In 1903 the station was rebuilt because the older station had become too small for the amount of traffic. In 2004, the station became part of the networks of the S-Bahn Luzern and Stadtbahn Zug.ServicesIn the 1960s and '70s, Brunnen hosted international trains to Lecce, in Italy, and Hoek van Holland, in the Netherlands.Today Brunnen is served by an hourly InterRegio train between Locarno and Arth-Goldau which continues alternately either to Basel SBB or to Zürich HB. The station is also served by line S2 of the Stadtbahn Zug, which operates hourly between Zug, Arth-Goldau and Erstfeld, and is the terminus of line S3 of the S-Bahn Luzern, which operates hourly to and from Lucerne.