Giswil railway station

Giswil
The station building in 2007
General information
Location	Giswil Switzerland
Coordinates	46°50′11.519″N 8°11′10.691″E
Elevation	485 m (1,591 ft)
Owned by	Zentralbahn
Line(s)	Brünig line
Train operators	Zentralbahn
Services
Preceding station Zentralbahn Following station Kaiserstuhl OW towards Interlaken Ost Panorama Express Luzern-Interlaken Express Sachseln towards Lucerne Preceding station Lucerne S-Bahn Following station Terminus S5 Ewil Maxon towards Lucerne
Location Giswil Location within Switzerland Show map of Switzerland Giswil Giswil (Canton of Obwalden) Show map of Canton of Obwalden

Giswil is a Swiss railway station on the Brünig line, owned by the Zentralbahn, that links Lucerne and Interlaken. The station is in the municipality of Giswil in the canton of Obwalden.[1][2]

The line from Giswil over the Brünig Pass towards Interlaken is equipped with rack rails, and Giswil is the furthest station from Lucerne that can be served by trains not fitted with rack equipment.[2]

Services

The following services stop at Giswil:[3]

• Panorama Express Luzern-Interlaken Express: hourly service between Lucerne and Interlaken Ost.
• Lucerne S-Bahn S5: half-hourly service to Lucerne.

Gallery

• 
  The station in 1890
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  The station in 1930
• 
  station building in 1999
• 
  Historic train on the 125th anniversary of the Brünig line in Giswil station (2013)
• 
  station in 2017

References

1. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2013-01-07.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
3. "Luzern - Brünig - Interlaken" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2020.

External links

• Media related to Giswil railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Giswil railway station – SBB