Ziegelbrücke railway station

Ziegelbrücke

Double-decker EMUs of S-Bahn Zürich at Ziegelbrücke railway station

General information

Location

Ziegelbrückstrasse 121
Schänis, St. Gallen
Switzerland

Coordinates

47°8′10.14″N 9°3′36.11″E / 47.1361500°N 9.0600306°E

Elevation

425 m (1,394 ft)

Owned by

Swiss Federal Railways

Line(s)

Distance

34.3 km (21.3 mi) from Sargans
57.2 km (35.5 mi) from Zürich HB

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Train operators

Connections

PostAuto Schweiz and Autobetrieb Weesen-Amden [de] buses^[2]

Other information

Fare zone

901 and 991 (Tarifverbund Ostwind [de])^[3]

History

Opened

1875

Passengers

2018

10,100 per weekday^[4]

Services

Preceding station	Südostbahn		Following station
Siebnen-Wangen towards Bern		IR 35 Aare Linth	Walenstadt towards Chur
Bilten towards Siebnen-Wangen		S27	Terminus
Preceding station	Zürich S-Bahn		Following station
Siebnen-Wangen towards Zürich Airport		S2	Unterterzen Limited service Terminus
Siebnen-Wangen towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof		S25	Näfels-Mollis towards Linthal
Preceding station	St. Gallen S-Bahn		Following station
Schänis towards Rapperswil		S6	Nieder- and Oberurnen towards Schwanden or Linthal
Schänis towards Rapperswil		S17	Mühlehorn towards Sargans

Location

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 the Gemarkung of Schänis,^[5]^[1] where it is the larger of two railway stations (the other being Schänis railway station).

Opened in 1875, the station is owned and operated by the Swiss Federal Railways. 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.^[1]^[6]

Ziegelbrücke is also a terminus for two regional lines, the Ziegelbrücke–Linthal railway and the Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke railway.^[1]

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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.

Services

The station is served by an hourly InterRegio (IR35, Aare Linth) service between Bern and Chur, stopping at Zürich, Thalwil, Pfaffikon SZ, Ziegelbrücke, Sargans and Landquart.^[7] International trains, such as the ÖBB Railjet Zürich HB–Wien Hauptbahnhof or the DB ICE Hamburg-Altona–Chur, do not stopp at Ziegelbrücke.

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; with some weekend trains continuing to Unterterzen. The hourly S25 continues through the canton of Glarus to Linthal.^[7]

Two lines of the St. Gallen S-Bahn also provide service to Ziegelbrücke, both running once an hour. The S17 operates between Rapperswil and Sargans. The S6 links Rapperswil with Schwanden (or Linthal during off-peak hours) via Uznach and Ziegelbrücke.^[7]

In addition, Südostbahn operates peak-hour service to Siebnen-Wangen, making local stops. This service is designated S27 but is not part of either S-Bahn network.^[8]

Summary:

: hourly service between Bern and Chur via Zürich HB (Aare Linth, jointly operated by SOB and SBB CFF FFS).
St. Gallen S-Bahn S6 / S17: half-hourly service to Rapperswil and hourly service to Sargans.
Zürich S-Bahn S2/S25: three trains per hour to Zürich HB and every half-hour to Zürich Airport.
Zürich S-Bahn S25/St. Gallen S-Bahn S6: half-hourly service to Schwanden and hourly service to Linthal.
March shuttle S27: peak-hour service to Siebnen-Wangen (not part of an S-Bahn network, operated by Südostbahn).

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.^[9]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Linthgebiet" (PDF). Postbus Switzerland. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind [de]. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2013-06-05.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Ziegelbrücke" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
^ "Liniennetzplan Südostbahn" (PDF). Südostbahn. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
^ "AWA, Autobetrieb Weesen-Amden". Autobetrieb Weesen-Amden. Retrieved 2013-05-05.