Schmerikon railway station
Schmerikon | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Bahnhofstrasse Schmerikon,St. Gallen Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°13′30.576″N8°56′36.175″E/ 47.22516000°N 8.94338194°E | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 407 m (1,335 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke | ||||||||||||||
| Distance | 49.3 km (30.6 mi) fromSargans[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Südostbahn | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | PostAuto Schweizbuses[2] | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 995 (Tarifverbund Ostwind)[3] | ||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 1,400 per weekday[4] | ||||||||||||||
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Schmerikon railway station(German:Bahnhof Schmerikon) is arailway stationsituated in themunicipality of Schmerikonin theSwisscanton of St. Gallen.It is located next to the shore ofOberseeon theRapperswil to Ziegelbrücke line.[5][1]
Services
[edit]The station is served bySt. Gallen S-BahnservicesS6,which operates south-east toSchwandenviaZiegelbrückeand westward toRapperswil,andS17,which operates between Rapperswil andSargansvia Ziegelbrücke. Both these lines run hourly, combining to provide a half-hourly service to Rapperswil and Ziegelbrücke.
As of the December 2023 timetable change,[update]the followingS-Bahnservices stop at Schmerikon railway station:[6]
- St. Gallen S-BahnS6/S17:half-hourly service betweenRapperswilandZiegelbrückeand hourly service toSchwanden/LinthalorSargans.
History
[edit]The next railway station to the west is nowBlumenau,but until 2004 it used to beBollingen.Until December 2023, the station was served by the inter-regionalVoralpen Express,which linksLucerneandSt. Gallen.
References
[edit]- ^abEisenbahnatlas Schweiz.Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13.ISBN978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^"Linthgebiet"(PDF).Postbus Switzerland.13 December 2020.Retrieved27 December2020.
- ^"OSTWIND-Zonenplan"(in German).Tarifverbund Ostwind.13 December 2020.Retrieved27 December2020.
- ^"Passagierfrequenz".Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019.Retrieved27 December2020.
- ^map.geo.admin.ch(Map). Swiss Confederation.Retrieved2013-06-20.
- ^"Rapperswil - Ziegelbrücke"(PDF)(in German). Swiss Federal Railways. 15 September 2023.Retrieved16 December2023.
External links
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Media related toSchmerikon railway stationat Wikimedia Commons- Schmerikon railway station – SBB
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