Göschenen railway station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

in the Swiss

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and municipality of Göschenen. Situated on the original line of the Gotthard railway, at the northern mouth of the

Gotthard Tunnel The Gotthard Tunnel (, ) is a railway tunnel that forms the summit of the Gotthard Railway in Switzerland. It connects Göschenen with Airolo and was the first tunnel through the Saint-Gotthard Massif in order to bypass the St Gotthard Pa ...

, the station is also the junction point with the

Schöllenenbahn The Furka Oberalp Railway () is a narrow gauge mountain railway in Switzerland with a gauge of . It runs in the Graubünden, Uri and Canton of Valais. Since January 1, 2003, it is part of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn when it merged with th ...

. Most trains on the Gotthard route now use the

Gotthard Base Tunnel The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT; , , ) is a railway tunnel through the Alps in Switzerland. It opened in June 2016 and full service began the following December. With a route length of , it is the world's longest railway and deepest traffic tunn ...

and do not pass through Göschenen station. The Gotthard railway connects Göschenen via Immensee with

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in the north, and via the Gotthard Rail Tunnel and Chiasso with

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in the south. The importance of the line decreased in the 2010s with the opening of the

(2016) and

Ceneri Base Tunnel The Ceneri Base Tunnel (CBT; ) is a Swiss railway base tunnel in the Ticino, canton of Ticino. It passes under Monte Ceneri between Camorino in the Magadino Flat and Vezia near Lugano; it bypasses the former high-altitude rail route through the ...

(2020), creating a new fast route between Central Switzerland and Ticino.

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now runs hourly panoramic service over the route. The Schöllenenbahn, a very short

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branch line, operates between Göschenen and

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, just to the south. It is operated by the

Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn is a narrow gauge railway line and a railway company (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn AG, MGB) in Switzerland. The track width is . It was created in 2003 through an amalgamation of Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO) and BVZ Zermatt ...

(MGB), and connects the Gotthard railway with southern Switzerland's metre gauge railway network.

Services

the following services stop at Göschenen: *

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: hourly service between and ; trains continue to or

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. * Regio: two trains per hour to . *

Gotthard Panorama Express The Gotthard Panorama Express is a tourist-oriented boat and panoramic train line which connects Lucerne to Lugano, crossing the Swiss Alps from North to South through the Gotthard crest tunnel. Until 2017, the train was known as the William Te ...

: daily tourist oriented service between Lugano and Arth-Goldau, with connecting boat service on

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. SBB Historic - F 122 00434 005 - Goeschenen Bahnhofgebaeude Bahnseite.jpg, station building (2003) Bahnhof Göschenen - MGB-Seite.jpg, station square with tracks of Schöllenenbahn (2014) Göschenen02.JPG, Gotthard tunnel portal north of the station (2007) Gotthard Railway - Goeschenen signalbox.jpg, Gotthard tunnel signal box (2015) in use until 2021

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Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn stations Railway stations in the canton of Uri Swiss Federal Railways stations Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1882 {{Switzerland-railstation-stub

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