Lauterbrunnen is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

in the village and municipality of

Lauterbrunnen Lauterbrunnen () is a village and Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli (administrative district), Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Canton of Bern, Bern in Swi ...

in the

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. The station is on the Berner Oberland Bahn (BOB), whose trains operate services to

Interlaken Ost Interlaken Ost or Interlaken East is a railway station in the resort town of Interlaken in the Switzerland, Swiss canton of Bern. The station was previously known as Interlaken Zollhaus. The town has one other station, Interlaken West. Interlak ...

. It is also the valley terminus of the Wengernalpbahn (WAB), whose trains operate to

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via Wengen, and of the Bergbahn Lauterbrunnen-Mürren (BLM), whose hybrid cable car and rail link runs to

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. Before 2006, this was a

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( Seilbahn Lauterbrunnen–Grütschalp). 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.

Services

the following rail services stop at Lauterbrunnen: * Regio: ** half-hourly service to . ** half-hourly service to . ** aerial tram every fifteen minutes to with connecting rail service to . Post bus services connect Lauterbrunnen station to other local places, including a half-hourly service to

Stechelberg Stechelberg () is a small village in Switzerland located at the base of the Schwarzmönch mountain in the Bernese Alps, part of the district of Lauterbrunnen. History The name "Stächelbärg" is first recorded in 1749 to describe this part of th ...

via the Trümmelbach Falls. A large

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is situated to the east of station, intended for the use of travellers to the car free resorts of Wengen and

, who must complete their journey by train.

References

External links

*
Lauterbrunnen station page on the Jungfraubahnen web site
* Railway stations in the canton of Bern Bernese Oberland Railway stations Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1890 {{Switzerland-railstation-stub

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