St. Gallen railway station
railway station in Switzerland
St. Gallen railway station (German: Bahnhof St. Gallen) is the main railway station of the city of St. Gallen, the capital of the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. It is located at the junction of the standard gauge St. Gallen–Winterthur and Rorschach–St. Gallen lines of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS), the standard gauge Romanshorn–Toggenburg line of Südostbahn (SOB), and the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen line of Appenzell Railways (Appenzeller Bahnen, AB).
Opened in 1856 and completely rebuilt at the outset of the 20th century and refurbished between 2016–2018, the station is owned and operated by Swiss Federal Railways.
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