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Railway station in Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
Liestal
Train approaching the stationLiestal station, with main line to left and Waldenburg line to right
General information
LocationLiestal
Switzerland
Coordinates47°29′4.060″N 7°43′52.921″E / 47.48446111°N 7.73136694°E / 47.48446111; 7.73136694
Elevation327 m (1,073 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Distance14.4 km (8.9 mi) from Basel SBB
Platforms2
Train operators
ConnectionsPostAuto Schweiz and Autobus AG Liestal [de] bus lines
Construction
ArchitectBurkard Meyer BSA (2019–2025), Alfred Ramseyer
Other information
Fare zone20 (tnw)
Passengers
201820,500 per weekday
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station
Basel SBBtowards Hamburg-Altona EuroCity Oltentowards Interlaken Ost
Basel SBBTerminus IC 61
IR 27 Sissachtowards Lucerne
IR 37 Sissachtowards Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Basel SBBtowards Berlin Ostbahnhof ICE 12 Oltentowards Interlaken Ost
Basel SBBtowards Hamburg-Altona ICE 20 OltenOne-way operation
Preceding station Basel trinational S-Bahn Following station
Frenkendorf-Füllinsdorftowards Porrentruy S3 Lausentowards Olten
Preceding station Baselland Transport Following station
Terminus Line 19 Altmarkttowards Waldenburg
Location

Liestal railway station (German: Bahnhof Liestal) is a railway station in Switzerland, in the municipality of Liestal and canton of Basel-Landschaft. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railway's Hauenstein main line, which connects Basel and Olten. It is served by five trains per hour to Basel, four trains per hour to Olten, and hourly trains to Interlaken, Lucerne, and Zürich. Several trains a day operate through to Frankfurt and Berlin. The station is also the junction for, and terminus of, the Waldenburg narrow gauge railway, which operates a train service every ten or twenty minutes to Waldenburg. The Waldenburg line closed in April 2021 until December 2022 for conversion to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge. Since 2019, the Swiss Federal Railways has been undertaking renovation and expansion works at Liestal which were commissioned by the federal government and which are due to be completed in 2025.

Services

As of the December 2020 timetable change, the following services stop at Liestal:

References

  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 2. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  2. "Liniennetz: Pratteln/Liestal /Oberes Baselbiet" (PDF). Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  3. "Zonen- und Linienplan" (PDF) (in German). Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  4. "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  5. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
  6. "Abfahrt Bahnhof Liestal" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
  7. "Das Projekt". Baselland Transport (in German). Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  8. "Ausbau Bahnknoten Liestal | SBB". company.sbb.ch (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  9. "Basel - Olten" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 12 October 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  10. "Waldenburg - Liestal (Linie 19)" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.

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