page_title: Rigi Railways
section_title: Termini
hierarchical_section_title: Rigi Railways / Operation / Termini
caption_attribution_description: English: The Vitznau terminus of the Vitznau-Rigi Bahn in Switzerland. Car 3 is on the turntable that links the station (background) with depot (to right). The steamer landing stage is behind the camera. For more information, see the Wikipedia article Rigi-Bahnen.
context_page_description: Rigi Railways is a group of railways on the mountain Rigi, located between two of the arms of Lake Lucerne, in Switzerland. They include two standard gauge rack railways, the Vitznau–Rigi Bahn and the Arth–Rigi Bahn, along with the Luftseilbahn Weggis–Rigi Kaltbad cable car and six smaller cable cars: Luftseilbahn Kräbel–Rigi Scheidegg, Luftseilbahn Obergschwend–Rigi Burggeist, Luftseilbahn Küssnacht–Seebodenalp, Luftseilbahn Vitznau–Hinterbergen, Luftseilbahn Vitznau–Wissifluh, and Luftseilbahn Brunnen–Urmiberg.
  Reaching a height of 1,752 metres above sea level, the Rigi Railways are the highest standard gauge railway in Europe. They are also the highest railway in both cantons of Lucerne and Schwyz. The Vitznau–Rigi Bahn is also notable as the first mountain rack railway in Europe, and even the second in the world, after the Mount Washington Cog Railway in the United States.
context_section_description: The Vitznau–Rigi Railway commences from a terminal station in the centre of Vitznau, and adjacent to the landing stage served by the Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees. This company operates passenger vessels, including some historic paddle steamers, on services that link Vitznau with the city of Lucerne and other places on Lake Lucerne. The public square between the station and landing stage is largely occupied by a turntable used by the railway to access its lakeside depot.
  Since of the closure of the section from Arth, the Arth–Rigi Railway now commences on platforms above, and at right-angles to, the main line platforms of Arth-Goldau station. The lines depot lies to the south of the station, where a link track connects the mountain railway with the main line.
  Both railways share a common terminal station at Rigi Kulm, although the two tracks are not linked in the station, and the two lines to Rigi Staffelhöhe follow slightly different routes. Each railway has a single stub track and platform.
caption: Vitznau terminus, with selection of different aged rolling stock in the station, and on the turntable linking station and depot.
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