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

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, and is used by trains of the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line.

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

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s 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.

Services

the following services stop at Luzern Allmend/Messe: * Lucerne S-Bahn /: service every fifteen minutes between and ; from Hergiswil every half-hour to or and every hour to . The provides additional weekday rush-hour service between and Lucerne. Luzern Allmend/Messe also receives cargo thru-traffic on track 2 serving industries near

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. This cargo traffic is standard gauge, requiring the use of dual gauge track on one of the two mainline tracks until the serviced industries. Allmend-Messe Dual Gauge

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* * {{SBB web Railway stations in the canton of Lucerne Buildings and structures in Lucerne Transport in Lucerne Zentralbahn stations Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 2012