Unterterzen railway station

Unterterzen
The station building in 2018
General information
Location	Quarten Switzerland
Coordinates	47°6′50″N 9°15′18″E
Elevation	426 m (1,398 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Ziegelbrücke–Sargans line
Distance	18.1 km (11.2 mi) from Sargans[1]
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Train operators	Südostbahn Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	Luftseilbahn Unterterzen–Flumserberg Schiffsbetrieb Walensee
Other information
Fare zone	389 (Tarifverbund Ostwind [de])[2]
Passengers
2018	490 per weekday[3]
Services
Preceding station St. Gallen S-Bahn Following station Murg towards Rapperswil S17 Walenstadt towards Sargans Preceding station Zurich S-Bahn Following station Ziegelbrücke towards Zurich Airport S2 Terminus
Location

Unterterzen railway station (German: Bahnhof Unterterzen) is a railway station in Quarten, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Ziegelbrücke–Sargans line.^[1]

Layout and connections

Valley station of Luftseilbahn Unterterzen–Flumserberg

Unterterzen has a single 316-metre (1,037 ft)-long island platform with two tracks. The valley station of the Luftseilbahn Unterterzen–Flumserberg aerial tramway, which carries passengers to the Flumserberg, is located across Walenseestrasse from the station.^[4] Schiffsbetrieb Walensee operates ferries on the Walensee from a ferry dock one block north of the station.

Services

As of the December 2023 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Unterterzen:^[5]

• Zürich S-Bahn S2: hourly service to Zürich Airport on weekends and public holidays.
• St. Gallen S-Bahn S17: hourly service between Rapperswil and Sargans via Ziegelbrücke.

See also

• Rail transport in Switzerland

References

1. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
2. "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (PDF) (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind [de]. 12 December 2021. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
3. "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
4. "Stop: platform length (body)". Swiss Federal Railways. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
5. "Zürich HB - Ziegelbrücke - Sargans - Chur" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.

External links

• Media related to Unterterzen railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Unterterzen railway station – SBB