Schmerikon railway station

Schmerikon
The station platform in 2009
General information
Location	Bahnhofstrasse Schmerikon, St. Gallen Switzerland
Coordinates	47°13′30.576″N 8°56′36.175″E / 47.22516000°N 8.94338194°E / 47.22516000; 8.94338194
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]
Other information
Fare zone	995 (Tarifverbund Ostwind [de])[3]
Passengers
2018	1,400 per weekday[4]
Services
Preceding station St. Gallen S-Bahn Following station Blumenau towards Rapperswil S6 Uznach towards Schwanden or Linthal S17 Uznach towards Sargans
Location

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]

• St. Gallen S-Bahn S6 / S17: half-hourly service between Rapperswil and Ziegelbrücke and hourly service to Schwanden / Linthal or Sargans.

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.

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• Schmerikon railway station – SBB

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