Visp railway station
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The new station building from the street.
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| Location | Bahnhofplatz 2 3930 Visp Visp, Valais Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 46°17′38″N 07°52′53″E / 46.29389°N 7.88139°ECoordinates: 46°17′38″N 07°52′53″E / 46.29389°N 7.88139°E |
| Elevation | 650.2 m (2,133 ft) |
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SBB CFF FFS Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) |
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Lausanne–Brig Spiez–Lötschberg Base Tunnel–Brig Brig–Visp–Zermatt (BVZ) |
| Distance | 35.08 km (21.80 mi) from Zermatt |
| Platforms | 4 |
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| Connections | Postauto and local buses |
| Electrified | 1 October 1929 (BVZ) |
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| Passengers (2014) | 18'400 |
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 Visp
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Visp railway station is a junction station at Visp (French: Viège), in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It has a modern station building completed in 2007, and is served by two standard gauge lines and a metre gauge line.
Visp station is now the busiest railway station in Valais.
Every day, about 230 trains stop at Visp, and approximately 18,400 passengers use the station, mostly for changing to and from trains calling at Sion.
The older of the two standard gauge lines serving Visp is the Simplon railway, which links (Genève-Aéroport, Genève and) Lausanne on Lake Geneva with Brig, at the northern portal of the Simplon Tunnel, via Sion and Visp.
In 2007, Visp became a standard gauge junction station, upon the opening of the New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA), connecting (Bern and) Spiez with Brig and the Simplon Tunnel, via the Lötschberg Base Tunnel and Visp.
All of the standard gauge passenger trains stopping at Visp are operated by SBB CFF FFS, even though the Lötschberg Base Tunnel is owned by another railway company, BLS AG.
Visp is also served by the metre gauge Brig-Visp-Zermatt railway (BVZ). 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).
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