Ziegelbrücke railway station

Ziegelbrücke
Rail bridge crossing the Linth in Ziegelbrücke, 2009.
Location	Ziegelbrückstrasse 121 8866 Schänis St. Gallen Switzerland
Coordinates	47°08′10″N 09°03′36″E / 47.13611°N 9.06000°E / 47.13611; 9.06000Coordinates: 47°08′10″N 09°03′36″E / 47.13611°N 9.06000°E / 47.13611; 9.06000
Elevation	425 m (1,394 ft)
Operated by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Left shore Lake Zurich railway Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke Weesen–Linthal Ziegelbrücke–Sargans
Distance	56.80 km (35.29 mi) from Zürich HB
Connections	Postauto and Local buses
History
Opened	1875 (1875)
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station Siebnen-Wangen   RegioExpress Zürich to Chur   Walenstadt Siebnen-Wangen   Zurich S-Bahn S2 service   Terminus Siebnen-Wangen   Zurich S-Bahn S25 service   Nieder- and Oberurnen Schänis   St. Gallen S-Bahn S4 line   Weesen Schänis   St. Gallen S-Bahn S6 service   Nieder- and Oberurnen Bilten   S-Bahn S27 (ZVV) service   Terminus
Location
Ziegelbrücke Location within Switzerland

Ziegelbrücke railway station (German: Bahnhof Ziegelbrücke) is a junction station in the village of Ziegelbrücke in Switzerland. Whilst the village is shared between the municipality of Glarus Nord, in the canton of Glarus, and the municipality of Schänis, in the canton of St. Gallen, the station is located in Schänis.

Opened in 1875, the station is owned and operated by the SBB-CFF-FFS. It is one of the southern termini of the Lake Zurich left bank railway line, a main line that links Zürich Hauptbahnhof with Ziegelbrücke and Näfels. From Ziegelbrücke, the main line continues, as the Ziegelbrücke–Sargans railway, towards its ultimate destination, Chur.

Ziegelbrücke is also a terminus for two regional lines, the Weesen–Linthal railway and the Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke railway.

The station has a large station building, a goods despatch office and a maintenance depot. Tracks 1-4 are used for goods traffic and 5-10 for passenger traffic. Behind track 10 extend two sidings.

On the south side of the station, parallel to the railway line, are the Linth, a railway power line and a main road.

The station is served by an hourly RegioExpress service between Zürich and Chur, stopping at Thalwil, Pfaffikon SZ, Ziegelbrücke, Sargans and Landquart.