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Location | Bahnhofstrasse Schmerikon, St. Gallen Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 47°13′30.576″N 8°56′36.175″E / 47.22516000°N 8.94338194°E | ||||||||||||||
Elevation | 407 m (1,335 ft) | ||||||||||||||
Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke | ||||||||||||||
Distance | 49.3 km (30.6 mi) from Sargans[1] | ||||||||||||||
Train operators | Südostbahn | ||||||||||||||
Connections | PostAuto Schweiz buses[2] | ||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 995 (Tarifverbund Ostwind )[3] | ||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||
2018 | 1,400 per weekday[4] | ||||||||||||||
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Schmerikon railway station (German: Bahnhof Schmerikon) is a railway station situated in the municipality of Schmerikon in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is located next to the shore of Obersee on the Rapperswil to Ziegelbrücke line.[5][1]
The station is served by St. Gallen S-Bahn services S6, which operates south-east to Schwanden via Ziegelbrücke and westward to Rapperswil, and S17, which operates between Rapperswil and Sargans via Ziegelbrücke. Both these lines run hourly, combining to provide a half-hourly service to Rapperswil and Ziegelbrücke.
As of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following S-Bahn services stop at Schmerikon railway station:[6]
The next railway station to the west is now Blumenau, but until 2004 it used to be Bollingen. Until December 2023, the station was served by the inter-regional Voralpen Express, which links Lucerne and St. Gallen.