Täsch railway station is a metre gauge railway station serving the municipality of Täsch, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. It forms part of the Brig-Visp-Zermatt railway (BVZ), which connects the car-free mountaineering and ski resort of Zermatt with standard gauge lines at Visp (served by SBB-CFF-FFS) and Brig (served by SBB-CFF-FFS and BLS AG).
Täsch | |||||||||||||||||||
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 A shuttle train at the station in 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Neue Kantonsstrasse Täsch Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°04′00″N 07°46′29″E / 46.06667°N 7.77472°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 1,437.6 m (4,717 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | ||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Brig–Zermatt line | ||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 18 July 1891 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 1 October 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||
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  Täsch Location within Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||
Since 1 January 2003, the BVZ has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), following a merger between the BVZ and the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO).
Due to Zermatt's car free status, the MGB has a frequent special shuttle train service between Zermatt and Täsch, where people travelling to and from Zermatt by combustion-engined vehicles are required to park their vehicles. For most of most days, this service operates at 20-minute intervals. The MGB also operates regional services between Zermatt and Brig via Täsch at hourly intervals.[1]
Every day, several Glacier Express trains, which are operated at this point by the MGB, pass through Täsch, but do not stop there.
Services edit
The following services stop at Zermatt:[2]
See also edit
References edit
Notes edit
- ^ Swiss timetable 140.
- ^ "Brig - Visp - Zermatt" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
Further reading edit
- Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2006). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). Vol. 1. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-157-9.
- "Official timetable of Switzerland". Bundesamt für Verkehr. (in English)
External links edit
- Täsch railway station – SBB
- Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German)
- Matterhorn Terminal AG - information about Zermatt shuttle trains
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