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Liestal railway station

railway station in the Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft
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Summary

Liestal railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.97% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (78 views/month, #180 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Liestal[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Transport network: Basel trinational S-Bahn[5]
  • Instance of: break-of-gauge station[6]
  • Connecting line: Hauenstein railway line[7], Waldenburg railway line[8]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[9]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[10]
  • Adjacent station: Liestal Gräubern railway station[11], Frenkendorf-Füllinsdorf railway station[12], Lausen railway station[13], Muttenz railway station[14], Basel SBB railway station[15], Olten railway station[16]
  • Station code: LST[17]
  • Commons category: Liestal railway station[18]
  • Inception: 1858[19]
  • Official website: https://www.sbb.ch/de/bahnhof-services/am-bahnhof/bahnhoefe/bahnhof-finden/bahnhof.23.liestal.html[20]
  • Number of platform tracks: 6[21]
  • Connecting service: IC 61[22], EuroCity[23], InterRegio[24], S3[25]
  • Official name: Liestal[26]
  • Date of official opening: 1858[27]
  • Elevation above sea level: 327 m[28]
  • Number of platform faces: 6[29]
  • State of use: in use[30]

Why It Matters

Liestal railway station has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . tnw.ch. tnw.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'ko', 'pl']
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Liestal'}
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51993|batch #51993]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 18w ago · Mackensen · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinates → —
    State of use → in use
    Instance of → —
    Adjacent station → Liestal Gräubern railway station, Frenkendorf-Füllinsdorf railway station, Lausen railway station +3
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Number of platform faces: 6"
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