Ziegelbrücke railway station

Ziegelbrücke
Rail bridge crossing the Linth in Ziegelbrücke, 2009.
Location Ziegelbrückstrasse 121
8866 Schänis
St. Gallen
Switzerland
Coordinates 47°08′10″N 09°03′36″E / 47.13611°N 9.06000°E / 47.13611; 9.06000Coordinates: 47°08′10″N 09°03′36″E / 47.13611°N 9.06000°E / 47.13611; 9.06000
Elevation 425 m (1,394 ft)
Operated by Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s) Left shore Lake Zurich railway
Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke
Weesen–Linthal
Ziegelbrücke–Sargans
Distance 56.80 km (35.29 mi)
from Zürich HB
Connections Postauto and Local buses
History
Opened 1875 (1875)
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station
Siebnen-Wangen   RegioExpress
Zürich to Chur		   Walenstadt
Siebnen-Wangen   Zurich S-Bahn
S2 service
   Unterterzen (limited service)
Siebnen-Wangen   Zurich S-Bahn
S25 service
   Nieder- and Oberurnen
Schänis   St. Gallen S-Bahn
S4 line		   Mühlehorn
Schänis   St. Gallen S-Bahn
S6 service		   Nieder- and Oberurnen
Bilten   S-Bahn
S27 (ZVV) service		   Terminus
Location
Ziegelbrücke
Location within Switzerland

Ziegelbrücke railway station (German: Bahnhof Ziegelbrücke) is a junction station in the village of Ziegelbrücke in Switzerland. Whilst the village is shared between the municipality of Glarus Nord, in the canton of Glarus, and the municipality of Schänis, in the canton of St. Gallen, the station is located in Schänis.[1][2]

Opened in 1875, the station is owned and operated by the SBB-CFF-FFS. It is one of the southern termini of the Lake Zurich left bank railway line, a main line that links Zürich Hauptbahnhof with Ziegelbrücke and Näfels. From Ziegelbrücke, the main line continues, as the Ziegelbrücke–Sargans railway, towards its ultimate destination, Chur.[2][3]

Ziegelbrücke is also a terminus for two regional lines, the Weesen–Linthal railway and the Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke railway.[2]

Facilities

The station features two station buildings, a goods despatch office and a maintenance depot. Tracks 1 - 4 are used for goods traffic, shunting operation and to accommodate passenger trains during off-peak hours and overnight. Tracks 5 - 10 are equipped with passenger platforms and therefore used for passenger traffic. Tracks 6 and 9 are usually used for intercity- and freight-trains that pass through the station at maximum speed. Tracks 11 and 12 are solely used for shunting operation and to accommodate passenger trains during off-peak hours and overnight.

On the south side of the station, parallel to the railway line, lies the river Linth, a railway power line and the main road.

Rail traffic

The station is served by an hourly RegioExpress service between Zürich and Chur, stopping at Thalwil, Pfaffikon SZ, Ziegelbrücke, Sargans and Landquart.[4]

Two lines of the Zürich S-Bahn also connect Zürich and Ziegelbrücke, combining to provide three trains per hour. The S2 terminates at Ziegelbrücke and runs twice per hour, whilst the hourly S25 continues through the canton of Glarus to Linthal.[4][5]

Two lines of the St. Gallen S-Bahn also provide service to Ziegelbrücke, both running once an hour. Services S4, operates in both directions around a loop via Uznach, St. Gallen and Sargans. Service S6 links Rapperswil with Schwanden via Uznach and Ziegelbrücke.[4][6]

Bus traffic

Postauto and local Autobetrieb Weesen-Amden bus lines connect Ziegelbrücke with the communities in the Wahlkreis See-Gaster and the municipalities of Bilten and Niederurnen.[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
  2. 1 2 3 Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  3. ↑ Neuhaus, Werner (1988). Linksufrige Zürichsee-Bahn: aus den Annalen der Linksufrigen [Left Shore Lake Zurich Railway: from the annals of the Left Shore] (in German). Stäfa: Gut Verlag. ISBN 3-85717-051-4.
  4. 1 2 3 "Departures - Ziegelbrücke Station" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
  5. ↑ "S-Bahn trains, buses and boats" (PDF). ZVV. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2014. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
  6. ↑ "S-Bahn St.Gallen Map" (PDF). S-Bahn. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
  7. ↑ "AWA, Autobetrieb Weesen-Amden". Autobetrieb Weesen-Amden. Retrieved 2013-05-05.

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