St. Gallen St. Fiden train station
| St. Gallen St. Fiden | |
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 Station building, track side, 1976
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | SGF |
| opening | 1856 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | St. Gallen |
| Place / district | St. Fiden |
| Canton | Canton of St. Gallen |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 747 504 / 255658 |
| Height ( SO ) | 645 m |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Switzerland | |
The St. Gallen St. Fiden station is the second most important station in the city of St. Gallen after the St. Gallen station . In its station area, the former Bodensee-Toggenburg Railway (BT) to Romanshorn branches off from the line to Rorschach , which originally belonged to the Sankt Gallisch-Appenzell Railway (SGAE) . The station has been owned by SBB since 1902 .
location
The station is located northeast of the city center in the St. Fiden district of the same name and is connected to the St. Gallen main station by the 1466 meter long Rosenberg tunnel. The A1 motorway runs right next to the train station, and a St. Fiden junction has been created immediately west of the train station. The station is less important as a transfer hub, but rather because of its proximity to various facilities and buildings. For example, the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital is located near the train station, as is the exhibition halls of the Olma trade fairs in St. Gallen, which is why the train station is of great importance during the fair. Until 2008 it was also important for football fans, as the former Espenmoos stadium of FC St. Gallen was above the St. Fiden train station.
Track system
The track system, including industrial connections, comprises thirteen tracks, three of which are reserved for passenger traffic. Track 1 is on the side platform, while a central platform is attached between tracks 3 and 4 . Track 2 was a platform-free through track until the switch connection on the east side was dismantled in 2011. The other tracks have been used by the construction service to park trains and wagons since the decline of the once powerful freight traffic. The five tracks north of the goods shed can be reached via a pull-out track in a north-easterly direction. The generous track systems are on the one hand by the Splügenstrasse and on the other hand by a passarelle traversed level free. There is a Migros branch at the northern end of the Passarelle .
The trains coming from Wittenbach stop on track 1, those from Rorschach on track 3. Track 4 is used for the opposite direction both for the journey to Wittenbach and to Rorschach.
history
In 1856 the Sankt Gallisch-Appenzellische Eisenbahn (SGAE) opened the railway line from Rorschach to St. Gallen and with it the St. Fiden train station, which at that time was only a service station . At that time, the connection to St. Gallen main station was made in open lines with the Blumenau bridge. In 1857, just one year after its opening, the SGAE was incorporated into the United Swiss Railways (VSB), which was nationalized in 1902 together with the other private railways NOB , JS and SCB to form SBB.
Initially, the name Buchenthal was intended for the station . In 1876 it was given the status of a freight yard by the VSB before it was inaugurated for passenger traffic in 1891. In the course of the opening of the railway line between Romanshorn and St. Fiden of the Bodensee-Toggenburg Railway (BT) in 1910, the station was expanded in stages between 1908 and 1915. In the course of this expansion, the station received the central platform that still exists today, as well as a goods shed and free loading. After various construction delays due to accidents and landslides, the line to Romanshorn could not be opened until October 1, 1910, and scheduled operations began two days later. Until 2011, track 1 was used by BT trains to and from Romanshorn, while tracks 3 and 4 were used for traffic to Rorschach and the Rhine Valley .
As traffic to the St. Gallen main station had to be expected to increase due to the BT and the single-lane open route was not up to the requirements, the SBB decided to build the 1,466-meter-long, double-lane Rosenberg tunnel. It was opened in 1912 after four years of construction and the old line was shut down. A remnant was still decades as siding used. The road tunnel of the same name on the A1 has been running parallel to the rail tunnel since 1987.
The electromechanical interlocking with the two guard interlockings was replaced in 1984 by a push-button interlocking of the Domino 67 type . In the summer of 2011, the so-called Spange SOB, an approximately 300 meter long connection line between the SBB double track St. Fiden – Engwil and the Bruggwald tunnel, which was built at the same time, went into operation. It significantly increases operational flexibility compared to the earlier separate single-track tracks from SBB and BT.
traffic
St. Fiden station is served by five lines of the St. Gallen S-Bahn :
- S 2 St. Gallen - Rorschach - St. Margrethen - Altstätten
- S 3 Herisau –St. Gallen – Rorschach – St. Margrethen
- S 4 Sargans - Buchs SG –Altstätten – St. Margrethen – Rorschach – St. Gallen – Herisau– Wattwil - Uznach - Ziegelbrücke –Sargans ( ring line )
- S 8 St. Gallen - Romanshorn - Kreuzlingen - Schaffhausen
- S 81 Herisau – St. Gallen – Wittenbach (only during rush hour)
The trains are operated by the SBB subsidiary Thurbo and the Swiss Southeast Railway (SOB). At the train station there is a bus stop for bus lines 9 and 11 of the St. Gallen public transport company (VBSG).
In the past, St. Fiden was also served by long-distance trains. Until 2013, the Rheintal-Express REX and the Voralpen-Express stopped every hour 
. Since then, the Voralpen-Express only runs to St. Gallen and the former Rheintal-Express has been accelerated between Rorschach and St. Gallen and now runs as
13extended to Zurich HB .
Web links
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c Ruedi Wanner: 1912 - 2012, 100 years of the St. Gallen Rosenberg Tunnel. In: s'Tablättli. Quartierverein St. Fiden-Neudorf, accessed on January 15, 2016 .
- ↑ a b as of 2016
- ↑ http://www.hvsg.ch/njb/NJB-146.pdf
- ↑ http://stadtarchiv.ch/inhalt/Hufenus_Daten_zur_Baugeschichte.pdf
- ↑ http://www.ass-stgallen.ch/Stadtgeschichte-1801-1900.html
- ↑ http://www.hvsg.ch/njb/NJB-146.pdf
- ↑ http://www.e-periodica.ch/digbib/view?rid=ins-001:1996:8::90
- ↑ Chronicle of the Southeast Railway
- ↑ Data on building history (PDF; 444 kB)
- ↑ S-Bahn 2013 timetable St. Gallen-Romanshorn ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ S-Bahn 2013 timetable Rheintal ( memento of the original from April 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
