Kandersteg is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

in the

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and municipality of Kandersteg. The station is located on the

Lötschberg line The Lötschberg is an Alpine mountain massif and usually associated with a major, historically important transit axis of the Alps in Switzerland with, at its core, the Lötschen Pass (german: Lötschenpass, Swiss German: ''Lötschepass''). The m ...

of the BLS AG, and is the first station to the north of the

Lötschberg tunnel , line = Lötschberg Line , location = Circumventing the Lötschen Pass in the Bernese Alps in Switzerland(Canton of Bern, canton of Valais) , coordinates = – , system = BLS, SBB CFF FFS , status = , st ...

. The station is served by the following passenger train: The station is also the northern terminus of the BLS

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to Goppenstein station via the

, with trains running every 30 minutes. There is no road across the Lötschen Pass, under which the tunnel runs, and the nearest alternative road crossings lie many kilometres to the east and west. The station is also served by

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bus services to

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and

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and to Selden in the

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Gallery

File:Loetschbergbahn01.jpg, The station from the street File:BLS Autoverlad.jpg, Unloading the car shuttle

References

External links

* * {{Lötschberg railway line Railway stations in the canton of Bern BLS railway stations