Buchs SG railway station

Not to be confused with Buchs AG railway station or Buchs-Dällikon railway station.

Buchs SG
The station building in 2010
General information
Location	Buchs Switzerland
Coordinates	47°10′6.276″N 9°28′43.043″E
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Chur–Rorschach line Feldkirch–Buchs line
Train operators	Südostbahn Swiss Federal Railways Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Reverses direction EuroCity Feldkirch towards Graz Hbf Sargans towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Altstätten SG towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof IR 13 Sargans Terminus Preceding station ÖBB Following station Sargans towards Zürich HB Railjet Express Feldkirch towards Vienna Airport Feldkirch towards Bratislava hl.st. Feldkirch towards Budapest Keleti Zürich HB 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 (abbreviated to SG). 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.

Services

Long-distance

As of December 2024^[update], the following long-distance services call at Buchs SG:^[1][2]

• EuroCity Transalpin: Single round-trip per day over the Chur–Rorschach and Feldkirch–Buchs lines between Zürich HB and Graz Hauptbahnhof.
• : Hourly service over the Chur–Rorschach line between Zürich HB and Chur, half-hourly service between St. Gallen and Chur.
• Railjet Express: Four round-trips per day over the Chur–Rorschach and Feldkirch–Buchs lines from Zürich HB to Wien Hauptbahnhof, Budapest Keleti, or Bratislava-Petržalka.
• Nightjet/EuroNight: Overnight trains over the Chur–Rorschach and Feldkirch–Buchs lines from Zürich HB to Graz Hauptbahnhof, Wien Hauptbahnhof, Praha hlavní nádraží, Budapest Keleti, or Zagreb Glavni kolodvor.

Local

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

• St. Gallen S-Bahn S4: hourly service between Rapperswil and Sargans via St. Gallen.
• Vorarlberg S-Bahn S2: on weekdays, 11 trains over the Feldkirch–Buchs line to Feldkirch.

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]

See also

• Rail transport in Switzerland

References

1. "St. Gallen - Rorschach - Buchs SG - Sargans" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. 7 November 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
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.

External links

• Media related to Buchs SG railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Buchs SG railway station – SBB