Arth-Goldau railway station explained

Style:	Swiss Federal Railways
Arth-Goldau
Borough:	Arth
Country:	Switzerland
Owned:	Swiss Federal Railways
Platforms:	4
Tracks:	6
Zone:	674 and 675 ^[1]
Passengers:	14,400 per weekday^[2]
Pass Year:	2018
Services Collapsible:	yes
Mapframe:	yes

Arth-Goldau railway station (German: Bahnhof Arth-Goldau) is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Schwyz and municipality of Arth. The station is located in the centre of the village of Goldau, which forms part of Arth.^{[3] [4]}

The station is an important junction, where the Zug–Arth-Goldau line joins the main line of the Gotthard line, and also where the Südostbahn-owned Pfäffikon–Arth-Goldau line diverges.^[3]

Layout

Arth-Goldau is a keilbahnhof: a station located between two converging railway lines. The north-south Zug–Arth-Goldau line joins the main line of the east-west Gotthard line. Both lines have two platforms serving three tracks. Additionally, the Arth–Rigi line terminates in its own platforms above and at right angles to the Gotthard platforms.^{[5] [6]}

Services

the following services stop at Arth-Goldau:^[7]

• EuroCity:
  • half-hourly service between and through Gotthard Base Tunnel, with hourly services continuing to,,,, or .
• InterCity:
  • : Hourly service through the Gotthard Base Tunnel between Zürich HB and Lugano.
  • : Hourly service through the Gotthard Base Tunnel between and Lugano, via .
• InterRegio

• • Voralpen Express: Hourly service between Luzern and via .
  • : Hourly service on the Gotthard line between and Basel SBB via Luzern.
  • : Half-hourly service on the Gotthard line between Locarno and Zürich HB via .
• RegioExpress:

three round-trips on weekends to .

• Zug Stadtbahn : hourly service between and .
• Lucerne S-Bahn:
  • : hourly service between Lucerne and .
  • : hourly service to .
• Gotthard Panorama Express: daily tourist oriented service to Lugano via the original high level Gotthard tunnel, with connecting boat service on Lake Lucerne to Lucerne.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tarifzonen . . 13 December 2020 . 1 January 2021 . de.
2. Web site: Passagierfrequenz . September 2019 . 1 January 2021 . Swiss Federal Railways.
3. Book: Moser . Beat . Pfeiffer . Peter . SBB Gotthardbahn . Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH) . 2004 . Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany . 3-89610-121-8 . German.
4. Swiss Confederation . map.geo.admin.ch . 2012-09-28.
5. Web site: Bahnhof Arth-Goldau: Plan . December 2020 . 1 January 2021 . de . Swiss Federal Railways.
6. Web site: Stop: platform length (body) . 2023-08-12 . data.sbb.ch . en-US.
7. Web site: Abfahrt: Bahnhof Arth-Goldau . 10 December 2023 . 11 December 2023 . de . Swiss Federal Railways.