🇨🇭 Erstfeld

Über Erstfeld

Erstfeld is a historischally significant station in the canton of Uri at the northern portal of the Gotthard Eisenbahnkorridor, where the traditional adhesion Hauptlinie begins its steep climb through the spiralling tunnels toward Göschenen and the original Gotthard Tunnel. The town has been defined by its railway heritage since the opening of the Gotthard line in 1882, and retains a large locomotive maintenance depot that has serviced the heavy freight traffic of one of Europe's busiest transalpine rail arteries for over a century. ToTag SBB passenger services stop at Erstfeld on the route between Lucerne and Bellinzona, while most high-speed and freight traffic runs through the deeper Gotthard Base Tunnel a few kilometres to the west.