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The railway was opened on 1 June 1864 by the Zürich–Zug–Lucerne Railway.. The opening of the Thalwil–Arth-Goldau line had, with the exception of the reconstruction in the area of Zug station, no great impact for the line itself, but trains running between Zürich and Lucerne continued to use the Zug–Lucerne section.
The station is a terminal station serving domestic and international traffic on several rail lines. The lines from the east (Zürich–Lucerne and the Gotthard lines) pass to the north of Lucerne and then join the lines from the north (Olten–Lucerne line) and the west (Bern–Wolhusen–Lucerne line) and pass to the west of Lucerne before turning to approach the station from the south.
The Lucerne S-Bahn (German: S-Bahn Luzern) is an S-Bahn-style commuter rail network focusing on Lucerne in Central Switzerland. Opened on 12 December 2004, the network forms part of the Central Switzerland S-Bahn project (German: S-Bahn Zentralschweiz ), which also includes the Zug Stadtbahn (German: Stadtbahn Zug ).
The InterCity, abbreviated IC, is a category of mainline train services in Switzerland operated by Swiss Federal Railways, connecting the country's major cities, the range of services (in Switzerland) of which is located between InterRegio (IR) (inter-regional) and EuroCity (EC).
IC 2000 was the first double-deck train in use on a nationwide scale. [1] Previously, most, if not all, double-deck trains, belonged to the Zürich S-Bahn network. The IC 2000 typically has a dining or a bistro car, and a snacks trolley service on the upper level throughout the train set. [ 2 ]
Switzerland has an extensive and reliable public transport network. Due to the clock-face schedule, the different modes of transports are well-integrated. There is a national integrated ticketing system for public transport, which is organized in tariff networks (for all train and bus services and some boat lines, cable cars and funiculars).
The Zurich-based NOB created a subsidiary called the Zürich-Zug-Lucerne railway (ZZL) and, after minor revisions of the project, began building the line. Basically planned as a single route, the topography allowed the low-cost connection to Zug only by means of a branch line, which was connected at Kollermühle by means of a large triangular ...
Zürich S-Bahn network as of December 2018 [3]. The S5 is a regional railway service of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network.