Lauterbrunnen railway station
Lauterbrunnen is a railway station in the village and municipality of Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss canton of Bern. The station is on the Berner Oberland Bahn (BOB), whose trains operate services to Interlaken Ost. It is also the valley terminus of the Wengernalpbahn (WAB), whose trains operate to Kleine Scheidegg via Wengen, and of the Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren (BLM), whose hybrid cable car and rail link runs to Mürren. Before 2006, this was a funicular (Seilbahn Lauterbrunnen–Grütschalp).
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| Location | Bahnhofplatz Lauterbrunnen, Bern Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°35′54.3624″N 7°54′29.1193″E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 796 m (2,612 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Berner Oberland-Bahnen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 12.3 km (7.6 mi) from Interlaken Ost | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Connections | PostAuto Schweiz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 822 (Libero) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 July 1890 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 17 March 1914 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The BOB and WAB lines use different gauges, and there is no physical connection between them. However the trains operate from adjacent platforms within the same station. Trains of the BOB enter the station from the north, whilst trains of the WAB enter from the south. The lower, cable car, stage of the BLM departs from a terminal across the street from the main station which is connected to the main station via an underground walkway. The depot and workshop of the WAB lies to the south of the station.