Sargans railway station

Swiss railway station
Place railway_station Q605247
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Summary

Sargans railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.93% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (145 views/month, #172 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Sargans[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Transport network: St. Gallen S-Bahn[5]
  • Instance of: Keilbahnhof[6]
  • Connecting line: Ziegelbrücke–Sargans railway line[7], Chur–Rorschach railway line[8]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[9]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[10]
  • Adjacent station: Bad Ragaz railway station[11], Mels railway station[12], Trübbach railway station[13], Sevelen railway station[14], Zürich Hauptbahnhof[15], Landquart railway station[16], Buchs railway station[17]
  • Station code: SA[18]
  • Commons category: Sargans railway station[19]
  • Has part(s): Signal Box Service Building Sargans[20], Service Building Sargans[21]
  • Inception: 1858[22]
  • Number of platform tracks: 6[23]
  • Connecting service: Railjet[24], InterCityExpress[25], IC 3[26], EuroCity[27], S12[28], S4[29]
  • Nominated for: FLUX – goldener Verkehrsknoten[30]
  • Official name: Sargans[31]
  • Date of official opening: 1858[32]
  • Elevation above sea level: 482 m[33]
  • Number of platform faces: 6[34]
  • State of use: in use[35]
  • Street address: Bahnhofplatz 527–646, 7320 Sargans[36]

Why It Matters

Sargans railway station has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . ostwind.ch. ostwind.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . sob.ch. sob.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . sob.ch. sob.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . sob.ch. sob.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . flux.swiss. Retrieved . flux.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [37] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'hu', 'it', 'ko', 'lmo', 'nl']
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Sargans'}
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 4w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53825|batch #53825]]: redundant value: it should not have a time zone"
  3. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51993|batch #51993]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  4. 12w ago · Slasher-fun · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 47.04536, 'lon': 9.445391944444445}
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → railway station, Keilbahnhof
    Coordinates → —
    + 24 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Ibnr id: 8574614, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/9289368|Sargans, Bahnhof (#9289368)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/164|IBNR]] #mix'n'match"
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