Aareschlucht West railway station
Aareschlucht West railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Meiringen, in the Swiss canton of Bern. It is located on the 1,000 mm Meiringen–Innertkirchen line of the Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn.Photo: Chris j wood, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Reichenbach Falls and Aare Gorge.
Reichenbach Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Reichenbach Falls is a waterfall in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland, which drop a height of 250 metres. In literature, the upper Great Reichenbach Fall is the location of the final altercation between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's hero Sherlock Holmes and his greatest foe, Professor Moriarty, in "The Final Problem". Reichenbach Falls is situated 1½ km southwest of Aareschlucht West railway station.
Aare Gorge
Photo: Pazit Polak, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Aare Gorge is a section of the river Aare that carves through a limestone ridge near the town of Meiringen, in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland.
Meiringen railway station
Railway station
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Meiringen railway station is a railway station, in the town of Meiringen in the Swiss canton of Bern, and at the junction of two railway lines. The Brünig line of the Zentralbahn is an inter-regional metre gauge railway that links Interlaken and Lucerne, whilst the Meiringen–Innertkirchen line of the Meiringen-Innertkirchen-Bahn is a local railway that links to Innertkirchen and the Aare Gorge. Meiringen railway station is situated 1¼ km northwest of Aareschlucht West railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Meiringen and Innertkirchen.
Meiringen
Photo: Thisisbossi, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Meiringen is a town in the Bernese Highlands of Switzerland. with a population in 2020 of 4666. It's a winter sports and mountain hiking resort, best known for the Reichenbach Falls, scene of the fictional death of Sherlock Holmes and his arch-enemy Professor Moriarty.
Innertkirchen
Village
Photo: Falk Lademann, CC BY 2.0.
Innertkirchen is a village and municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2014, the former municipality of Gadmen was merged into the municipality of Innertkirchen. Innertkirchen is situated 3 km southeast of Aareschlucht West railway station.
Lungern
Village
Photo: Zuphilip, Copyrighted free use.
Lungern is a municipality in the canton of Obwalden in Switzerland. It encompasses Lake Lungern and, besides the village of Lungern, the settlements of Bürglen, Kaiserstuhl and Obsee. Lungern is situated 8 km north of Aareschlucht West railway station.
Aareschlucht West railway station
- Type: Railway stop
- Description: train station in Switzerland
- Categories: railway station, station, and transportation
- Location: Schattenhalb, Interlaken-Oberhasli, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.72127° or 46° 43′ 17″ northLongitude
8.1986° or 8° 11′ 55″ eastElevation
604 metres (1,982 feet)Operator
ZBOpen location code
8FRCP5CX+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 6034006575OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=haltWikidata ID
Q33512537
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to Korean—“Aareschlucht West railway station” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Aareschlucht West”
- French: “Aareschlucht West”
- French: “gare de Aareschlucht West”
- German: “Bahnhof Aareschlucht West”
- Korean: “아레슐트 서역”
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