Kriens Mattenhof railway station explained

Style:	Zentralbahn
Kriens Mattenhof
Address:	Horwerstrasse
Borough:	Kriens
Country:	Switzerland
Owned:	Zentralbahn
Line:	Brünig line
Train Operators:	Zentralbahn
Mapframe:	yes

Kriens Mattenhof railway station is a Swiss railway station in the municipality of Kriens in the canton of Lucerne. It is on the Brünig line of the Zentralbahn railway company, which links Lucerne and Interlaken, and is also used by trains of the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg line.^{[1] [2]}

Immediately to the north of Kriens Mattenhof station, the railway enters a tunnel as far as the approaches to Lucerne station, calling at the underground Lucerne Allmend/Messe station on the way. This tunnel opened in November 2012, replacing a less direct surface alignment.^[3]

Services

the following services stop at Kriens Mattenhof:^{[4] [5]}

• 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.

Notes and References

1. Swiss Confederation . map.geo.admin.ch . 2013-01-08.
2. Book: Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz . 2012 . Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH . 978-3-89494-130-7 . 22.
3. Web site: Ausbau Zentralbahn . German . Zentralbahn Expansion . 2013-01-15 . 26 March 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070326123503/http://www.ausbau-zentralbahn.lu.ch/ . dead .
4. Web site: Luzern - Brünig - Interlaken . Bundesamt für Verkehr . de . 2021-09-30 . 2022-10-02.
5. Web site: Luzern - Stans - Engelberg . Bundesamt für Verkehr . de . 2021-10-27 . 2022-10-02.