Ziegelbrücke railway station
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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).
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Location | Ziegelbrückstrasse 121 Schänis, St. Gallen Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 47°8′10.14″N 9°3′36.11″E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 425 m (1,394 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Distance | [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Connections | PostAuto Schweiz and Autobetrieb Weesen-Amden [de] buses[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 901 and 991 (Tarifverbund Ostwind [de])[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1875 (1875) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2018 | 10,100 per weekday[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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]