Fiesch railway station
Fiesch | |||||
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 The station building in 2018 | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Bahnhofstrasse Fiesch Switzerland | ||||
| Coordinates | 46°24′11.27″N 8°7′57.51″E / 46.4031306°N 8.1326417°E | ||||
| Elevation | 1,062.2 m (3,485 ft) | ||||
| Owned by | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | ||||
| Line(s) | Furka Oberalp line | ||||
| Train operators | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | ||||
| Connections | Postauto and local buses | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1 July 1914 | ||||
| Services | |||||
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Fiesch railway station is a metre gauge station serving the municipality of Fiesch, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. The station forms part of the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO), which connects Brig in Valais, via Furka Base Tunnel, Andermatt in Uri, with Göschenen, Uri, and Disentis/Mustér, Graubünden. Since 1 January 2003, the FO has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), following a merger between the FO and the Brig-Visp-Zermatt railway (BVZ).
Services
The following services stop at Fiesch:[1]
The long-distance Glacier Express passes through Fiesch without stopping; the Glacier Express ceased stopping at Fiesch in late 2018.[2]
References
- ^ "Visp - Brig - Oberwald - Andermatt - Göschenen" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
- ^ "Glacier Express" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
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. (in English)
External links
Media related to Fiesch railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
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