Buchs SG railway station

Buchs SG
The station building in 2010
Location	Buchs Switzerland
Coordinates	47°10′6.276″N 9°28′43.043″E / 47.16841000°N 9.47862306°E / 47.16841000; 9.47862306Coordinates: 47°10′6.276″N 9°28′43.043″E / 47.16841000°N 9.47862306°E / 47.16841000; 9.47862306
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 EuroCity Following station Reverses direction Transalpin Feldkirch towards Graz Hbf Sargans towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Altstätten SG towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof InterRegio IR 13 Sargans towards Chur Preceding station ÖBB Following station Reverses direction Railjet Feldkirch towards Wien Hbf, Vienna Airport, Budapest Keleti or Bratislava hl.n. Sargans towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Nightjet Feldkirch towards Zagreb Sargans towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Feldkirch towards Wien Hbf Sargans towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Terminus R Schaan-Vaduz towards Feldkirch Preceding station St. Gallen S-Bahn Following station Salez-Sennwald Next counter-clockwise S4 Sevelen Next clockwise
Location
Buchs SG Location within Switzerland

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.

Services[]

Long-distance[]

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 Hauptbahnhof and Graz Hauptbahnhof.
• InterRegio: Hourly service over the Chur–Rorschach line between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Chur
• Railjet Express: Four round-trips per day over the Chur–Rorschach and Feldkirch–Buchs lines from Zürich Hauptbahnhof to Vienna, Budapest, or Bratislava.
• Nightjet/EuroNight: Overnight trains over the Chur–Rorschach and Feldkirch–Buchs lines from Zürich Hauptbahnhof to Graz, Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Zagreb.

Local[]

Buchs SG is served by the St. Gallen S-Bahn and Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) local trains:^[2]

• S4: hourly service over the Chur–Rorschach line via Sargans (circular operation).
• ÖBB: infrequent service 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]

References[]

External links[]

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