St. Gallen railway station (German: Bahnhof St. Gallen) serves the town St. Gallen, the capital of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is located at the junction of the standard gauge St. Gallen–Winterthur, Rorschach–St. Gallen, and Romanshorn–Toggenburg lines of Swiss Federal Railways and the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen line of Appenzell Railways.[1]
St. Gallen | |||||||
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.JPG) The station building at night in July 2014 | |||||||
| General information | |||||||
| Location | Bahnhofplatz St. Gallen Switzerland | ||||||
| Coordinates | 47°25′23.459″N 9°22′11.543″E / 47.42318306°N 9.36987306°E | ||||||
| Elevation | 669 m (2,195 ft) | ||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||
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| Platforms | |||||||
| Tracks | 9 | ||||||
| Train operators | |||||||
| Connections | |||||||
 | VBSG trolleybus[2] 1 3 4 5 | ||||||
 | VBSG bus 2 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
PostAuto 120 121 180 200 210 211 242 980 Regiobus[3] 151 | ||||||
| Other information | |||||||
| Fare zone | 210 (Tarifverbund Ostwind)[4] | ||||||
| Website | Bahnhof St. Gallen | ||||||
| History | |||||||
| Opened | 1856 | ||||||
| Rebuilt | 2018 | ||||||
| Passengers | |||||||
| 2018 | 48,600 per working day[5] | ||||||
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Opened in 1856 and completely rebuilt at the outset of the 20th century, the station is owned and operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), and is the focal point of the St. Gallen S-Bahn. It also serves as a central station to the Appenzell Railways (AB) and many city and urban bus connections in front of the main building.
Layout
editSt. Gallen railway station is situated in Bahnhofplatz, just to the west of the city centre. The standard gauge portion of the station consists of four platforms (1 island platform and three side platforms) serving 7 tracks (Nos. 1–7). Appenzell Railways serves tracks 11 and 12 at a pair of side platforms in the station forecourt.[6]
Services
editAs of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following rail services stop at St. Gallen:[7]
- EuroCity: service every two hours between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and München Hauptbahnhof
- InterCity:
/ 
: half-hourly service to Geneva Airport via Zürich Airport, and hourly service to Rorschach
- InterRegio:
: hourly service between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Chur
Voralpen Express: hourly service to Lucerne via Rapperswil and Arth-Goldau
- RegioExpress:
- RE1: hourly service over the Bodensee–Toggenburg line between Herisau and Konstanz via Romanshorn
- St. Gallen S-Bahn (most lines are also part of Bodensee S-Bahn):
- S1: half-hourly service between Wil and Schaffhausen.
- S2 / S4: half-hourly service between Wattwil and Altstätten SG and hourly service to Rapperswil, Sargans, and Nesslau-Neu St. Johann.
- S5: half-hourly (weekdays) or hourly (weekends) service over the St. Gallen–Winterthur railway to Weinfelden and hourly service over the Rorschach–St. Gallen railway to St. Margrethen.
- S20: rush-hour service over the Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen railway between Appenzell and Trogen.
- S21: half-hourly service over the Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen railway between Appenzell and Trogen.
- S22: rush-hour service between Teufen AR and Trogen.
- S81: hourly service over the Bodensee–Toggenburg railway to Herisau.
- S82: rush-hour service over the Bodensee–Toggenburg railway to Wittenbach.
See also
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Notes
edit- ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Liniennetz st.gallerbus" (PDF). Verkehrsbetriebe St. Gallen. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ "80.151 Gossau SG - Arena - St. Gallen" (PDF). 2023-09-15. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
- ^ "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: Swiss Federal Railways. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
- ^ "St. Gallen" (PDF) (in German). Swiss Federal Railways. February 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
- ^ "Abfahrt: Bahnhof St. Gallen" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
References
edit- Stutz, Werner (1976). Bahnhöfe der Schweiz [Railway Stations of Switzerland] (in German). Zürich: Verlag Berichthaus. p. 162. ISBN 3-85572-018-5.
External links
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Media related to St. Gallen railway station at Wikimedia Commons- St. Gallen railway station – SBB
