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Laufen railway station

railway station in Switzerland
Place railway_station Q3096857
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Summary

Laufen railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.98% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (34 views/month, #182 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Canton of Basel-Landschaft[3], Laufen[4]
  • Country: Switzerland[5]
  • Transport network: Basel trinational S-Bahn[6]
  • Connecting line: Basel–Biel/Bienne railway line[7]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[8]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[9]
  • Adjacent station: Zwingen railway station[10], Delémont railway station[11], Basel SBB railway station[12]
  • Station code: LFN[13]
  • Commons category: Laufen railway station[14]
  • Inception: 1875[15]
  • Number of platform tracks: 4[16]
  • Connecting service: S3[17], IC 51[18]
  • Official name: Laufen[19]
  • Date of official opening: 1875[20]
  • Different from: Q117621512[21], Laufen (Kocher) railway station[22]
  • Elevation above sea level: 355 m[23]
  • Number of platform faces: 2[24]
  • State of use: in use[25]
  • P14976: 158D4A55-8CA2-4D0B-BA8F-850197DA7B16[26]

Why It Matters

Laufen railway station is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . tnw.ch. tnw.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . tnw.ch. tnw.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . tnw.ch. tnw.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → 158D4A55-8CA2-4D0B-BA8F-850197DA7B16
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14976: 158D4A55-8CA2-4D0B-BA8F-850197DA7B16, swissNAMES3D ID from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 5d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'ko']
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Laufen'}
    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 → S3, IC 51
    Instance of → —
    Country → Switzerland
    Inception → +1875-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 20 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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