Gais railway station

Gais
Gais
	The station building in 2014
General information
Location	Gais, Appenzell Ausserrhoden; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°21′39.2″N 9°27′4.3″E / 47.360889°N 9.451194°E
Elevation	915 m (3,002 ft)
Owned by	Appenzell Railways
Line(s)	Altstätten–Gais line; Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen line;
Distance	7.7 km (4.8 mi) from Altstätten Stadt; 13.9 km (8.6 mi) from St. Gallen;
Platforms	1 island platform; 1 side platform;
Tracks	3
Train operators	Appenzell Railways
Other information
Fare zone	244 and 245 (Tarifverbund Ostwind [de])
Services
Location
Location

Gais railway station (German: Bahnhof Gais) is a railway station in the municipality of Gais, in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. It is located at the junction of the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen and Altstätten–Gais lines of Appenzell Railways.^[1]

Services

As of the December 2020 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Gais:^[3]^[4]

St. Gallen S-Bahn:
- S20: rush-hour service between Trogen and Appenzell.
- S21: half-hourly service between Appenzell and Trogen.
- S24: hourly service to Altstätten Stadt.

Scheduled transfers between the S21 and S24 enable hourly service from Altstätten Stadt to Appenzell and St. Gallen and vice versa.

^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind [de]. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
^ "Appenzell-Gais-St. Gallen-Speicher-Trogen" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
^ "Gais - Altstätten Stadt" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 16 September 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2021.