Sedrun railway station
Sedrun | ||||||||||||||||
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 The station building in 2017 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Via dalla Staziun 1 Tujetsch Switzerland | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°40′51.83″N 8°46′11.18″E / 46.6810639°N 8.7697722°E | |||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 1,441.2 m (4,728 ft) | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Furka Oberalp line | |||||||||||||||
| Distance | 87.77 km (54.54 mi) from Brig Bahnhofplatz | |||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 3 July 1926 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 29 May 1941 | |||||||||||||||
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Sedrun railway station is a metre gauge railway station serving the village of Sedrun, in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. The station is at the eastern end of the Oberalp Pass. It forms part of the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO), which connects Brig in Valais, via Andermatt in Uri, with Göschenen, Uri, and, via the Oberalp Pass, with Sedrun and Disentis/Mustér, Graubünden.
Since 1 January 2003, the FO has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), following a merger between the FO and the Brig-Visp-Zermatt railway (BVZ).
Services
[edit]The MGB operates regional services between Andermatt and Disentis/Mustér via Sedrun, at hourly intervals. These services connect in Andermatt with other MGB regional services, operating to Brig Bahnhofplatz and Göschenen. They also connect in Disentis/Mustér with similar hourly regional services, operated by the Rhaetian Railway and heading further east.[1]
Additionally, during the winter closure of the Oberalp pass road, the MGB also operates frequent car shuttle trains between Andermatt and Sedrun, via the Oberalp Pass.[2][3]
Every day several Glacier Express trains pass through Sedrun, but do not stop there.[4]
Gallery
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Deh 4/4II 93 with a train in Sedrun -
The station in winter -
The station looking back toward the Oberalp pass
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Chur - Disentis/Mustér - Andermatt" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 October 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
- ^ Swiss timetable 1983.
- ^ "Oberalp car train". Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn. Archived from the original on 2017-06-05. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
- ^ "Glacier Express" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
Bibliography
[edit]- Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2007). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). Vol. 2. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 978-3-89610-175-4.
- "Official timetable of Switzerland". Bundesamt für Verkehr. (in English)
External links
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