Schwanden railway station

Schwanden railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Glarus Süd in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It is an intermediate stop on the Weesen to Linthal railway line, and serves the village of Schwanden.[1][2]

Schwanden
LocationBahnhofstrasse
Schwanden
Glarus Süd, Glarus
Switzerland
Coordinates46.925289°N 8.997921°E / 46.925289; 8.997921
Elevation521 m (1,709 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Operated bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)Weesen-Linthal
ConnectionsSernftalbus
Services
Preceding station Zürich S-Bahn Following station
Mitlödi S25 Nidfurn-Haslen
towards Linthal
Preceding station St. Gallen S-Bahn Following station
Mitlödi
towards Rapperswil
S6 Terminus
Location
Schwanden
Location within Switzerland

The station is served by Zürich S-Bahn service S25 between Zurich and Linthal. It is also the terminus of the St. Gallen S-Bahn service S6 from Rapperswil. Both services operate once per hour, combining to provide two trains per hour between Ziegelbrücke and Schwanden.[3][4][5]

The station is also the terminus of several connecting bus routes, operated by the Sernftalbus company:[6]

  • an hourly service up the valley of the Sernf river to Glarus
  • an hourly service to Schwändi
  • a service to Sool, with several return journeys a day
  • a summer-only service, with several return journeys a day, to connect with an aerial tramway to the Garichtisee.

Between 1905 and 1969, the station was the terminus of the Sernftal tramway, a metre gauge tramway that ran up the valley of the Sernf river to Elm, and was the predecessor of the Sernftalbus service on the same route.[7]

References

  1. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  3. "S-Bahn trains, buses and boats" (PDF). ZVV. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  4. "S-Bahn St. Gallen" (PDF). Appenzeller Bahnen. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  5. "Ziegelbrücke–Linthal" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 25 October 2019. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  6. "Sernftalbus - Fahrplan 2015" [Sernftalbus - Timetable 2015] (PDF) (in German). Autobetrieb Sernftal AG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-27. Retrieved 2015-04-20.
  7. "Sernftalbahn". www.eingestellte-bahnen.ch (in German). Retrieved 2013-05-22.


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