Zermatt railway station

Zermatt
The station forecourt.
Location	Bahnhofplatz 3920 Zermatt Visp, Valais Switzerland
Coordinates	46°1′27″N 07°44′51″E / 46.02417°N 7.74750°E / 46.02417; 7.74750Coordinates: 46°1′27″N 07°44′51″E / 46.02417°N 7.74750°E / 46.02417; 7.74750
Elevation	1,605.2 m (5,266 ft)
Operated by	Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Gornergratbahn (adjacent)
Line(s)	BVZ Zermatt-Bahn Gornergratbahn (adjacent)
Distance	0 km (0 mi) from Zermatt
Connections	Local electric buses
History
Opened	18 July 1891 (1891-07-18)
Electrified	1 October 1929 (1929-10-01) (BVZ) 20 August 1898 (1898-08-20) (Gornergratbahn)
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station Terminus Glacier Express Swiss timetable 144 Visp toward St. Moritz/Davos Platz Terminus Regional services Swiss timetable 140 Täsch toward Brig Terminus Zermatt Shuttle Swiss timetable 141 Täsch Terminus Terminus   Gornergrat railway   Findelbach
Location
Zermatt Location within Switzerland

Zermatt railway station is a metre gauge railway station serving the car-free mountaineering and ski resort of Zermatt, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is the southern terminus of the BVZ Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ), which connects Zermatt with standard gauge lines at Visp (served by SBB-CFF-FFS) and Brig (served by SBB-CFF-FFS and BLS AG). Since 1 January 2003 (2003-01-01), the BVZ has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), following a merger between the BVZ and the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO).

Overview

The station is also adjacent to the valley terminus of the Gornergratbahn mountain railway, which rises 1,484.4 metres (4,870 ft) in only 9.35 kilometres (5.81 mi) to its mountain terminus at the summit of the Gornergrat.

Every day, several Glacier Express trains, which are operated at this point by the MGB, either originate from, or terminate at, Zermatt station. The MGB also operates regional services to Brig at hourly intervals.

Additionally, due to Zermatt's car free status, the MGB has a frequent special shuttle train service between Zermatt and nearby Täsch, where people travelling to and from Zermatt by combustion-engined vehicles are required to park their machines. For the better part of most days, this service operates at 20 minute intervals; it takes 12 minutes.^[1][2]

Frequent services are also operated by the Gornergratbahn.

Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn services

• Glacier express - several trains daily
• Regional services - 1tph
• Shuttle services - frequent

Gallery

• 
  Zermatt railway station, ca 1900.
• 
  Glacier Express welcome sign.
• 
  The station concourse.
• 
  HGe 4/4 II No. 102 and Tm 74.

See also

• Glacier Express
• Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
• BVZ Zermatt-Bahn
• Gornergratbahn
• Riffelalptram
• Zermatt
• Matterhorn

References

Notes

1. ↑ "Zermatt Shuttle". Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn website. Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn. Retrieved 6 February 2013.  External link in |work= (help)
2. ↑ "Täsch". Zermatt Matterhorn website. Zermatt Tourismus. Retrieved 6 February 2013.  External link in |work= (help)

Further reading

• Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2006). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). 1. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-157-9. 

External links

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