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°ECoordinates: 47°08′10″N 09°03′36″E / 47.13611°N 9.06000°E
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
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station Siebnen-Wangen   RegioExpress Zürich to Chur   Walenstadt Siebnen-Wangen   Zurich S-Bahn S2 service   Terminus Siebnen-Wangen   Zurich S-Bahn S25 service   Nieder- and Oberurnen Schänis   St. Gallen S-Bahn S4 line   Weesen 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 has a large station building, a goods despatch office and a maintenance depot. Tracks 1-4 are used for goods traffic and 5-10 for passenger traffic. Behind track 10 extend two sidings.

On the south side of the station, parallel to the railway line, are the Linth, a railway power line and a 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

• History of rail transport in Switzerland
• Rail transport in Switzerland

References

1. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
2. 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. "Departures - Ziegelbrücke Station" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. Retrieved 2014-08-08.
5. "S-Bahn trains, buses and boats" (PDF). ZVV. 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.

External links

• Media related to Ziegelbrücke at Wikimedia Commons
• Swiss Federal Railways - official site (English)

This article is based upon a translation of the German language version as at November 2011.