Linthal railway station is a
railway station
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in the
municipality of Glarus Süd in the
Swiss
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canton of Glarus
The canton of Glarus (german: Kanton Glarus rm, Chantun Glaruna; french: Canton de Glaris; it, Canton Glarona) is a canton in east central Switzerland. The capital is Glarus.
The population speaks a variety of Alemannic German.
The majority of ...
. It is the terminus of the
Weesen to Linthal railway line, and serves the
village of Linthal.
The station is the terminus of the hourly
Zürich S-Bahn
The Zürich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Zürich) system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zürich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, ...
service
S25 from
Zurich.
The station is also the terminus of a
PostBus Switzerland
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service to
Fluelen station, on the
Gothard railway and
Lake Lucerne
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Lake Lucerne (german: Vierwaldstättersee, literally "Lake of the four forested settlements" (in English usually translated as ''forest cantons''), french: lac des Quatre-Cantons, it, lago dei Quattro Cantoni) is a lake in central ...
, which provides several daily return journeys across the
Klausen Pass
Klausen Pass (German: ''Klausenpass''; elevation: ) is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting Altdorf in the canton of Uri with Linthal in the canton of Glarus. Somewhat unusually, the boundary between the two cantons does not lie ...
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.
References
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