Linthal railway station explained

Linthal
Style:	Swiss Federal Railways
Address:	Bahnhofstrasse Linthal Glarus Süd, Glarus
Country:	Switzerland
Coordinates:	46.9253°N 8.9979°W
Elevation:	648m (2,126feet)
Line:	Weesen-Linthal
Connections:	Postbus Switzerland Urnerboden Sprinter minibus
Owned:	Swiss Federal Railways
Operator:	Swiss Federal Railways
Map Type:	Switzerland

Linthal railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Glarus Süd in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It is the terminus of the Weesen to Linthal railway line, and serves the village of Linthal.^{[1] [2]}

The station is the terminus of the hourly Zürich S-Bahn service S25 from Zurich.^{[3] [4]}

The station is also the terminus of a PostBus Switzerland service to Fluelen station, on the Gothard railway and Lake Lucerne, which provides several daily return journeys across the Klausen Pass between May and September. Outside that period, a minibus service called the Urnerboden Sprinter provides three connections a day to Urnerboden on the route to the pass.^{[5] [6]}

Services

the following services call at Linthal railway station:

• St. Gallen S-Bahn:
  • : hourly service to via (only during off-peak hours).
• Zürich S-Bahn:
  • : hourly service to via .

Notes and References

1. Swiss Confederation . map.geo.admin.ch . 2012-04-29.
2. Book: Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz . 2012 . Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH . 978-3-89494-130-7 . 24–25.
3. Web site: S-Bahn trains, buses and boats . ZVV . 9 December 2018 . 26 December 2019 .
4. Web site: Ziegelbrücke–Linthal . Bundesamt für Verkehr . 25 October 2019 . 26 December 2019.
5. Web site: Flüelen–Klausen–Linthal . Bundesamt für Verkehr . 2015-04-21.
6. Web site: Der Urnerboden Sprinter . German . Walker′s Söhne GmbH . 2015-04-24.