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St. Gallen railway station

railway station in Switzerland
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Summary

St. Gallen railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.91% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (236 views/month, #169 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: FLUX – goldener Verkehrsknoten[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: St. Gallen[4]
  • Country: Switzerland[5]
  • Transport network: St. Gallen S-Bahn[6]
  • Instance of: break-of-gauge station[7], station building[8]
  • Connecting line: Bodensee–Toggenburg railway line[9], Rorschach–St. Gallen railway line[10], Winterthur–St. Gallen line[11]
  • Architect: Alexander von Senger[12]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[13]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[14]
  • Architectural style: baroque revival[15]
  • Adjacent station: St. Gallen Bruggen railway station[16], St. Gallen St. Fiden railway station[17], St. Gallen Haggen railway station[18], Gossau SG railway station[19], Winterthur railway station[20], Rorschach railway station[21]
  • Postal code: 9600[22]
  • Station code: SG[23]
  • Part of: list of cultural properties in St. Gallen[24]
  • Commons category: St. Gallen railway station[25]
  • Interchange station: St. Gallen AB railway station[26]
  • Described at URL: https://api.geo.admin.ch/rest/services/ech/MapServer/ch.babs.kulturgueter/08296/extendedHtmlPopup[27], https://data.geo.admin.ch/ch.babs.kulturgueter/PDF/kgs_08296_sg.pdf[28], https://map.stadt.sg.ch/stadtplan/pdf/adlib/403_Bahnhofplatz%202.PDF[29]
  • Number of platform tracks: 7[30]
  • Connecting service: IC 1[31], EuroCity[32], InterRegio[33], Voralpen Express[34], ECE 88[35], S1 (St.Gallen)[36], S5[37], S4[38], S81[39], S2[40], IC 5[41]
  • Heritage designation: class A Swiss cultural property of national significance[42]
  • Official name: St. Gallen[43]
  • Date of official opening: January 1, 1856[44]
  • Elevation above sea level: 669 m[45]
  • Appears in the heritage monument list: list of cultural properties in St. Gallen[46]
  • State of use: in use[47]

Why It Matters

St. Gallen railway station has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[48] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[49]

FAQs

What awards did St. Gallen railway station receive?

Honors received include FLUX – goldener Verkehrsknoten[3].

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . ostwind.ch. ostwind.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [4] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  13. [3] ↑ . flux.swiss. Retrieved . flux.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . ostwind.ch. ostwind.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . ostwind.ch. ostwind.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . sob.ch. sob.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . sob.ch. sob.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [48] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [49] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'St. Gallen'}
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  2. 26d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'ko', 'nl', 'pl', 'uk']
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  3. 7w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
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  4. 8w ago · AnBuKu · 2026-08-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Transport network → St. Gallen S-Bahn
    Interchange station → St. Gallen AB railway station
    Award received → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 47.423183, 'lon': 9.369873}
    + 25 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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