Buchs SG
Boxy two-story structure with blue trim
The station building in 2010
General information
LocationBuchs
Switzerland
Coordinates47°10′6.276″N 9°28′43.043″E / 47.16841000°N 9.47862306°E / 47.16841000; 9.47862306
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Train operators
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station
Reverses direction EuroCity Feldkirch
towards Graz Hbf
Sargans
Altstätten SG IR 13 Sargans
towards Chur
Preceding station ÖBB Following station
Sargans
towards Zürich Hbf
Railjet Express Feldkirch
Feldkirch
Feldkirch
Zürich Hbf
Terminus
EuroNight
EuroNight Feldkirch
towards Praha hl.n.
EuroNight
Feldkirch
towards Zagreb
Nightjet Feldkirch
towards Graz Hbf
Preceding station St. Gallen S-Bahn Following station
Salez-Sennwald
towards Rapperswil
S4 Sevelen
towards Sargans
Preceding station Vorarlberg S-Bahn Following station
Terminus S2 Schaan-Vaduz
towards Feldkirch
Location

Buchs SG railway station (German: Bahnhof Buchs SG) is a railway station in Buchs, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line and western terminus of the Feldkirch–Buchs line to Austria and Liechtenstein. It is served by local and long-distance trains. As the station is located just north of the crossing of the Rhine between Switzerland and Liechtenstein, long-distance trains traveling between Zürich and points east must reverse direction.

The station is not to be confused with Buchs AG railway station (located in Buchs, canton of Aargau), or with Buchs-Dällikon railway station (located in Buchs, canton of Zürich).

Services

Long-distance

The following long-distance services call at Buchs SG:[1][2]

Local

Buchs SG is served by the St. Gallen S-Bahn and Vorarlberg S-Bahn:[2]

Customs

Buchs SG is, for customs purposes, a border station for passengers arriving from Austria. Customs checks may be performed in the station or on board trains by Swiss officials. Systematic passport controls were abolished when Switzerland joined the Schengen Area in 2008.[3][4]

References

  1. "St. Gallen - Rorschach - Buchs SG - Sargans" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. 7 November 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Buchs SG" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  3. "Switzerland's Schengen entry finally complete".
  4. "Land borders open as Switzerland enters Schengen zone". 12 December 2008.
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