Sagliains railway station is a connecting station on the Bever–Scuol-Tarasp railway in Sagliains, Switzerland. It is located at km 128.67 at 1432 m above sea level at the exit from the Sagliains valley between the villages and stations of Susch and Lavin in the Lower Engadine.[1] It was built on material removed during the construction of the Vereina Tunnel. Sagliains station was opened to timetabled traffic with the Vereina tunnel on November 22, 1999.
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Location | Zernez Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 46°45′48.240″N 10°5′47.648″E / 46.76340000°N 10.09656889°E | |||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 1,432 m (4,698 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Rhaetian Railway | |||||||||||||||||||
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Train operators | Rhaetian Railway | |||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 22 November 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||
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2018 | 1,200 per weekday[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
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Sagliains station's main business is the operation of the Vereina car shuttle train to Klosters Selfranga. The car loading station is equipped with two loading tracks next to a loading ramp, which stretches along the valley slope. It has a direct connection to the main road through a car tunnel and a covered gallery, which serves, among other things, the waiting road vehicles and has offices for cashiers. There is also a service building with a self-service kiosk. In addition to the transport of cars, Sagliains station also serves as an interchange station between the Scuol-Tarasp–Pontresina regional services and the Scuol-Tarasp–Landquart–Chur–Disentis regional express services.
As an interchange station, it only has an island platform without access from the outside.[3] Thus, it is not normally possible to use this station for embarking and disembarking, except for changing trains.
Services edit
As of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Sagliains:[4][5]
- RegioExpress: hourly service between Landquart and Scuol-Tarasp.
- Regio: hourly service between Pontresina and Scuol-Tarasp.
- Car shuttle: half-hourly service to Klosters Selfranga.
Gallery edit
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Train entering Sagliains station
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View of the Vereina Tunnel entrance at Sagliains
Notes edit
- ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 39. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ Eisenbahnjournal Vol 4 2000, pp. 68–79.
- ^ "Davos Platz - Landquart | Scuol-Tarasp - Vereina - Landquart | St. Moritz - Vereina - Landquart" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
- ^ "Vereina Klosters Selfranga–Sagliains" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 6 October 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
References edit
- Die RhB, part 4 (in German). Eisenbahn Journal/Hermann Merker Verlag GmbH Fürstenfeldbruck. March 2000. pp. 68–79. ISBN 3-89610-063-7.
External links edit
- Media related to Sagliains railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Sagliains railway station – Rhaetian Railway