Zermatt railway station

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, 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). The station is across the street from Zermatt GGB railway station, the valley terminus of the Gornergrat Railway.

Zermatt
The station building in 2007
Location	Bahnhofplatz Zermatt Switzerland
Coordinates	46°1′27″N 07°44′51″E
Elevation	1,605.2 m (5,266 ft)
Owned by	Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Line(s)	Brig–Zermatt line
Train operators	Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Connections	Local electric buses
History
Opened	18 July 1891
Electrified	1 October 1929
Services
Preceding station Glacier Express Following station Terminus Glacier Express Brig Bahnhofplatz towards St. Moritz Preceding station Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Following station Terminus Regio Täsch towards Fiesch Täsch towards Visp Täsch Terminus
Location
Zermatt Location within Switzerland

Overview

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]

Services

The following services stop at Zermatt:[3]

• Glacier Express: one or more trains per day, depending on the season, to St. Moritz or Chur.
• Regio:
  • half-hourly service to Visp, with every other train continuing to Fiesch.
  • shuttle service every twenty minutes to Täsch.

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
• Riffelalptram
• Zermatt
• Matterhorn

References

Notes

1. "Zermatt Shuttle". Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn. Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
2. "Täsch". Zermatt Matterhorn. Zermatt Tourismus. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
3. "Brig - Visp - Zermatt" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2020.

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

• Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn