Kandersteg railway station

railway station in Switzerland
Place railway_station Q15233436
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Summary

Kandersteg railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.93% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (63 views/month, #173 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Kandersteg[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Instance of: car-train station[5]
  • Connecting line: Lötschberg railway line[6]
  • Maintained by: BLS AG[7]
  • Owned by: BLS AG[8]
  • Operator: BLS AG[9]
  • Adjacent station: Blausee-Mitholz station[10], Goppenstein railway station[11]
  • Station code: KA[12]
  • Commons category: Kandersteg railway station[13]
  • Inception: 1913[14]
  • Connecting service: RegioExpress[15]
  • Official name: Kandersteg[16]
  • Date of official opening: 1913[17]
  • Elevation above sea level: 1176 m[18]
  • State of use: in use[19]
  • P14976: B2BB3D03-7C20-4ED0-B80F-F0DF844E9D77[20]

Why It Matters

Kandersteg railway station has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9h ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → B2BB3D03-7C20-4ED0-B80F-F0DF844E9D77
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14976: B2BB3D03-7C20-4ED0-B80F-F0DF844E9D77, swissNAMES3D ID from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 3d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['commons', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'ko']
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Kandersteg'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ source for position, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  3. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Connecting service → RegioExpress
    Maintained by → BLS AG
    Instance of → —
    Country → Switzerland
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51993|batch #51993]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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