St. Margrethen railway station

St. Margrethen
St. Margrethen
	The station building in 2018
General information
Location	St. Margrethen; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°27′11.56″N 9°38′17.68″E / 47.4532111°N 9.6382444°E
Elevation	402 m (1,319 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Chur–Rorschach line; St. Margrethen–Lauterach line;
Distance	53.8 km (33.4 mi) from Sargans
Train operators	THURBO; Südostbahn; Swiss Federal Railways; Austrian Federal Railways;
Services
Location
Location

St. Margrethen railway station (German: Bahnhof St. Margrethen) is a railway station in St. Margrethen, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line and the western terminus of the St. Margrethen–Lauterach line to Austria.^[1] It is located at the Swiss–Austrian border.

Services

As of the December 2024 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at St. Margrethen:^[2]

EuroCity: six trains per day between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and München Hauptbahnhof.
: hourly service between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Chur, half-hourly service between St. Gallen and Chur.
St. Gallen S-Bahn:
- S2 / S4: half-hourly service between Wattwil and Altstätten SG via St. Gallen and hourly service to Rapperswil, Sargans, and Nesslau-Neu St. Johann.
- S5: hourly service to Weinfelden.
- S7: on weekdays, three trains per day between Romanshorn and Lindau-Reutin; service increases to every two hours on weekends.
Vorarlberg S-Bahn:
- S3: on weekdays, half-hourly service to Bregenz; service is hourly on weekends.
- R5: on weekdays, six trains per day to Dornbirn, three to Feldkirch.^[3]

^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "St. Gallen - Rorschach - Buchs SG - Sargans" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. 25 September 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
^ "Fahrplan R5 (S5)" (PDF). vmobil.at. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.