Schwanden railway station

Schwanden railway station (German: Bahnhof Schwanden) is a railway station in the municipality of Glarus Süd in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It is an intermediate stop on the Weesen to Linthal railway line, and serves the village of Schwanden.[5][1] Between 1905 and 1969, the station was the terminus of the Sernftal tramway, a metre gauge tramway that ran up the valley of the Sernf river to Elm, and was the predecessor of the Sernftalbus service on the same route.[6]

Schwanden
The station building in 2017
General information
Location	Bahnhofstrasse Glarus Süd, Glarus Switzerland
Coordinates	46°59′48.667″N 9°4′38.878″E
Elevation	521 m (1,709 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Ziegelbrücke–Linthal line
Distance	73.8 km (45.9 mi) from Zürich[1]
Train operators	Südostbahn Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	Autobetrieb Sernftal buses[2]
Other information
Fare zone	903, 904, and 911 (Tarifverbund Ostwind)[3]
Passengers
2018	1,500 per weekday[4]
Services
Preceding station Zürich S-Bahn Following station Mitlödi towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof S25 Nidfurn-Haslen towards Linthal Preceding station St. Gallen S-Bahn Following station Mitlödi towards Rapperswil S6 Terminus
Location

The station is served by Zürich S-Bahn service S25 between Zurich and Linthal. It is also the terminus of the St. Gallen S-Bahn service S6 from Rapperswil. Both services operate once per hour, combining to provide two trains per hour between Ziegelbrücke and Schwanden.[7]