page_title: Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees
section_title: Routes
hierarchical_section_title: Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees / Routes
caption_attribution_description: Lake Lucerne paddle steamer "Unterwalden" at Treib (in the background: funicular to Seelisberg). Photo taken May 1, 2004 (Lake Lucerne "steamer parade" celebrating the renovation of steamer "Gallia").
context_page_description: The Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees or Lake Lucerne Navigation Company is a public Swiss company operating passenger ships and boats on Lake Lucerne. The company is based in the city of Lucerne, and its origins can be traced back to 1836. Today it is the largest inland shipping company in Switzerland, and is notable for operating a number of historic paddle steamers, in addition to more modern motor vessels.
  The company provides public transport routes to 32 places along the shore of the lake, with interchange to both main line and mountain railways at various points. Whilst much usage of these services is tourist or leisure oriented, the company also continues to provide practical public transport links between the smaller lakeside communities.
  The company also owns its own shipyard, Shiptec Lucerne, which undertakes new build and rebuild work both for the SGV and for other shipping companies.
context_section_description: The SGV operates several routes, with many variants, on Lake Lucerne. The following places are served, listed here in clockwise order around the lake shore from Lucerne:
  Lucerne
  Verkehrshaus
  Seeburg
  Meggenhorn
  Meggen
  Merlischachen
  Küssnacht
  Greppen
  Hertenstein
  Weggis
  Vitznau
  Gersau
  Brunnen
  Sisikon
  Tellsplatte
  Flüelen
  Seedorf
  Isleten
  Bauen
  Rütli
  Treib
  Beckenried
  Buochs
  Kehrsiten-Bürgenstock
  Kehrsiten-Dorf
  Stansstad
  Rotzloch
  Alpnachstad
  Hergiswil
  Kastanienbaum
  St. Niklausen
  Tribschen
  Not all services serve all stops, nor are they necessarily served in the order presented above.
  The SGV operates both historic paddle steamers and more modern motor vessels on its scheduled services. Whilst either kind of ship may operate an individual service, the company publishes in advance those services for which it is planning to use paddle steamers.
  The SGV services are well integrated with other public transport and tourist services. The landing stages at Lucerne and Flüelen provide 'cross-quay' interchange with the main line railways at Lucerne station and Flüelen station respectively. Similar links are available to the Pilatus rack railway at Alpnachstad station, the Vitznau–Rigi rack railway at Vitznau, the Treib–Seelisberg funicular at Treib and the Bürgenstock funicular at Kehrsiten-Bürgenstock.
  The interchange at Flüelen forms a key part of the William Tell Express, a tourist oriented combined paddle steamer and rail service that connects Lucerne and Locarno. The SGV provides the link from Lucerne to Flüelen, connecting there with a Swiss Federal Railways train to Locarno.
caption: Quayside interchange between paddle steamer and funicular at Treib.
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