Classic route
Seetalbahn
Lenzburg → Lucerne · Switzerland
- Distance
- 47 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 35 min
- Operator
- SBB
- Train
- S9
- Countries
- Switzerland
- In service since
- 1883
Page last updated 2026-07-27 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Opened in 1883 by British investors down the Seetal lakes to Lucerne — for a century a roadside light railway, and rebuilt on its own alignment in the 2000s.
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