Andermatt Railway Station
Andermatt railway station is a railway station and junction on the metre gauge Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO), serving the town and municipality of Andermatt, in the canton of Uri, Switzerland. The station is connected, via the Furka Pass, with Brig and Visp in the canton of Valais, and, via the Oberalp Pass, with the western terminus of the Rhaetian Railway at Disentis/Mustér, in the canton of Graubünden. There is also a short branch line, the Schöllenenbahn, between Andermatt and Göschenen, at the northern end of the standard gauge Gotthard Rail Tunnel.
Since 2003, the FO, including Andermatt station and the lines and trains serving it, has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB).
The station currently has three platforms in use.
Services
As of the December 2022 timetable change, the following services stop at Andermatt:
- Glacier Express: one or more trains per day, depending on the season, between Zermatt and St. Moritz or Chur.
- Regio:
- half-hourly service to Göschenen.
- hourly service to Visp.
- hourly service to Disentis/Mustér.
- during the winter closure of the Oberalp pass road, frequent car shuttle trains via the Oberalp Pass to Sedrun.
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Old station building
See also
Notes
- ^ "Visp - Brig - Oberwald - Andermatt - Göschenen" (PDF) (in German). Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn. 23 April 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Chur - Disentis/Mustér - Andermatt" (PDF) (in German). Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn. 20 October 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ "Oberalp car train". Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn. Archived from the original on 2017-06-05. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
Further reading
- Moser, Beat; Börret, Ralph; Küstner, Thomas (2005). Glacier Express: Von St. Moritz nach Zermatt (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-057-2.
- Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2007). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). Vol. 2. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 978-3-89610-175-4.
- "Official timetable of Switzerland". Bundesamt für Verkehr. Archived from the original on 2014-09-28. Retrieved 2010-07-23. (in English)
External links
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