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Rheineck railway station

Rheineck
Rheineck 180214.jpg
Location Rheineck, St. Gallen
Switzerland
Coordinates 47°28′01″N 9°35′27″E / 47.46694°N 9.59083°E / 47.46694; 9.59083Coordinates: 47°28′01″N 9°35′27″E / 47.46694°N 9.59083°E / 47.46694; 9.59083
Owned by Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s) St. Margrethen–Rorschach
Rheineck–Walzenhausen
Connections
Ship
Lake Constance ferries
Bus
PostBus local buses
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station
Staad   St. Gallen S-Bahn
S2 service
  St. Margrethen
Staad   St. Gallen S-Bahn
S3 service
  St. Margrethen
Staad   St. Gallen S-Bahn
S4 service
  St. Margrethen
Terminus   St. Gallen S-Bahn
S26 service
  Ruderbach
Location
Rheineck is located in Switzerland
Rheineck
Rheineck
Location within Switzerland

Rheineck railway station (German: Bahnhof Rheineck) is a railway station that serves the municipality of Rheineck, in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The station is located on the eastern edge of Rheineck village centre, with the A1 motorway, the Alter Rhein river channel and then the border with Austria flanking the opposite side of the station.

The station is an intermediate stop on the St. Margrethen–Rorschach railway line, and is the lower terminus of the Rheineck–Walzenhausen mountain railway. It is served by St.Gallen S-Bahn services S2, S3 and S4, which link Rheineck to the city of St. Gallen and other local towns, and by service S26, which shuttles up to Walzenhausen. The S2, S3 and S4 each run hourly, providing three trains per hour to and from St. Gallen, whilst the S26 operates one or two return journeys per hour, depending on the time of day.

Rheineck is also the easterly end of the Swiss shipping services on Lake Constance, and the town's landing stages are located on the Alter Rhein channel. The landing stages are linked to the station by a pedestrian subway under the A1 motorway. Local bus services operate from a bus station adjacent to the station building.

The station has two side platforms, on either side of the twin track main line. The station building abuts the western platform, and is linked to the eastern platform by a pedestrian subway. The Rheineck–Walzenhausen line starts from its own platform, which is actually located on the western mainline platform.

The Rheineck–Walzenhausen train at its terminus

The bus station

A visiting historic train

The station in the town


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