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.

Andermatt
A regional train at Andermatt station
Location	Bahnhofstrasse 2 Andermatt Switzerland
Coordinates	46°38′12.81″N 8°35′35.75″E
Elevation	1,435.7 m (4,710 ft)
Owned by	Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Line(s)	Furka Oberalp line Schöllenenbahn
Distance	67.94 km (42.22 mi) from Brig
Platforms	3
Train operators	Glacier Express Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
History
Opened	12 July 1917
Electrified	12 July 1917 (1,200 V DC) 29 May 1941 (11 kV AC)
Services
Preceding station Glacier Express Following station Brig Bahnhofplatz towards Zermatt Glacier Express Disentis/Mustér towards St. Moritz Preceding station Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Following station Hospental towards Visp Regio Terminus Terminus Göschenen Terminus Nätschen towards Disentis/Mustér Oberalp car shuttle train Sedrun Terminus
Location
Andermatt Location within Switzerland

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

The following services stop at Andermatt:[1][2]

• 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.[3]

See also

• Furka Pass
• Car shuttle train
• Oberalp Pass
• Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
• Furka Oberalp Bahn

Notes

1. "Visp - Brig - Oberwald - Andermatt - Göschenen" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
2. "Chur - Disentis/Mustér - Andermatt" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
3. "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). 2. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 978-3-89610-175-4.
• "Official timetable of Switzerland". Bundesamt für Verkehr. (in English)

External links

• Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
• Andermatt railway station – SBB