Liestal railway station

Liestal railway station (German: Bahnhof Liestal) is a railway station in Switzerland, in the municipality of Liestal and canton of Basel-Landschaft.^[5][1] 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.^[1][6] The Waldenburg line closed in April 2021 until December 2022 for conversion to 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge.^[7] 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. ^[8]

Liestal
Liestal station, with main line to left and Waldenburg line to right
General information
Location	Liestal Switzerland
Coordinates	47°29′4.060″N 7°43′52.921″E
Elevation	327 m (1,073 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Hauenstein line Waldenburg line
Distance	14.4 km (8.9 mi) from Basel SBB[1]
Platforms	2
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways Baselland Transport
Connections	PostAuto Schweiz and Autobus AG Liestal [de] bus lines[2]
Construction
Architect	Burkard Meyer BSA (2019–2025), Alfred Ramseyer
Other information
Fare zone	20 (tnw)[3]
Passengers
2018	20,500 per weekday[4]
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Basel SBB towards Hamburg-Altona EuroCity Olten towards Interlaken Ost Basel SBB Terminus IC 61 IR 27 Sissach towards Lucerne IR 37 Sissach towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Basel SBB towards Berlin Ostbahnhof ICE 12 Olten towards Interlaken Ost Basel SBB towards Hamburg-Altona ICE 20 Olten One-way operation Preceding station Basel trinational S-Bahn Following station Frenkendorf-Füllinsdorf towards Porrentruy S3 Lausen towards Olten Preceding station Baselland Transport Following station Terminus Line 19 Altmarkt towards Waldenburg
Location

Services

As of the December 2020 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Liestal:^[9][10]

• EuroCity / InterCity / Intercity Express (ICE): hourly service between Basel SBB and Interlaken Ost, with a single EuroCity continuing from Basel to Hamburg-Altona and two ICEs continuing to Berlin Ostbahnhof.
• InterRegio:
  • hourly service between Basel SBB and Lucerne.
  • hourly service between Basel SBB and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
• Basel trinational S-Bahn: S3: half-hourly service between Laufen and Olten, with every other train continuing from Laufen to Porrentruy.
• Baselland Transport Waldenburg line 19: service every 10 or 20 minutes to Waldenburg.

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.

External links

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