Liestal railway station

Liestal
Liestal
	Liestal station, with main line to left and Waldenburg line to right
General information
Location	Liestal; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°29′04″N 7°43′53″E / 47.484461°N 7.731367°E
Elevation	327 m (1,073 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Lines	Hauenstein line; Waldenburg line;
Distance	14.4 km (8.9 mi) from Basel SBB
Platforms	2
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways; Baselland Transport;
Connections	PostAuto Schweiz and Autobus AG Liestal bus lines
Construction
Architect	Burkard Meyer BSA (2019–2025), Alfred Ramseyer
Other information
Fare zone	20 (tnw)
Passengers
2018	20,500 per weekday
Services
Location
Location

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]

Services

As of the December 2025 timetable change, the following services stop at Liestal:^[9]^[10]

EuroCity / InterCity / Intercity Express (ICE): half-hourly service between Basel SBB and Spiez; trains continue from Spiez to Interlaken Ost or Brig. Five trains per day serve Berlin Ostbahnhof, Hamburg-Altona, or Dortmund.
InterRegio:
- hourly service between Basel SBB and Lucerne.
- hourly service between Basel SBB and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
Basel trinational S-Bahn / : service every fifteen minutes to Basel SBB; every half-hour to Laufen and Olten with additional peak hour service to Sissach; and two trains per day to Delémont.
Baselland Transport Waldenburg line 19: service every 15 minutes to Waldenburg.

^ ^a ^b ^c Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 2. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Liniennetz: Pratteln/Liestal /Oberes Baselbiet" (PDF). Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
^ "Zonen- und Linienplan" (PDF) (in German). Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz. 13 December 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2015-01-27.
^ "Abfahrt Bahnhof Liestal" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-01-23. Retrieved 2015-01-23.
^ "Das Projekt". Baselland Transport (in German). Archived from the original on 23 June 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
^ "Ausbau Bahnknoten Liestal | SBB". company.sbb.ch (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-31.
^ Swiss Federal Railways (25 September 2025). "Basel - Olten" (PDF). öv-info.ch (in German). Retrieved 15 December 2025.
^ "Waldenburg - Liestal (Linie 19)" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2020.