Luzern Allmend/Messe railway station
Railway station in Switzerland
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Luzern Allmend/Messe railway station (German: Bahnhof Luzern Allmend/Messe) is a railway station in the city of Lucerne, in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. It is located adjacent to the Swissporarena, in the south of the city. The station is on the Brünig line of the Zentralbahn railway company, and is used by trains of the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line.[2][3][4]
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| Location | Lucerne Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°02′06″N 8°18′12″E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Zentralbahn | ||||||||||||||||||
| Line | Brünig line | ||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Zentralbahn | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 9 December 2012[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
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History
The station opened in December 2012, and is situated in a tunnel linking Kriens Mattenhof station and the approaches to Lucerne station. The tunnel replaces a less direct surface alignment, allowing the abolition of several congested level crossings and the provision of double track. The new station gives access for an estimated 500,000 people per year, to the nearby sports, leisure and exhibition facilities.[5][6]
Services
As of the December 2021 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Luzern Allmend/Messe:[7][8]
- 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.
Luzern Allmend/Messe also receives cargo thru-traffic on track 2 serving industries near Horw. This cargo traffic is standard gauge, requiring the use of dual gauge track on one of the two mainline tracks until the serviced industries.[9]
