Stalden-Saas railway station (German: Bahnhof Stalden-Saas, French: Gare de Stalden-Saas) is a railway station in the municipality of Stalden, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge Brig–Zermatt line and is served by local trains only.
Stalden-Saas | |||||||||||||||
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The station building and platforms in 2020 | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Stalden Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°13′55″N 7°52′16″E / 46.23194°N 7.87111°E | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 800 m (2,600 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Brig–Zermatt line | ||||||||||||||
| Distance | 27.72 km (17.22 mi) from Zermatt | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | PostAuto AG buses[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Partly | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 8501683 (STAS) | ||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 860 per weekday[2] (MGB) | ||||||||||||||
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Services
editAs of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Stalden-Saas:[3]
Film
editStalden-Saas railway station appears in the 1979 Charles Bronson action film Love and Bullets. Bronson (as character Charlie Congers) and Jill Ireland (Jackie Pruit) disembark from a train and begin driving toward Kandersteg from the station carpark.
References
edit- ^ "Liniennetz Grächen / St. Niklaus" (PDF) (in German). PostBus Switzerland. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Stalden, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
- ^ "Brig - Visp - Zermatt" (PDF) (in German). öv-info.ch. 27 September 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
External links
editMedia related to Stalden-Saas railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Stalden-Saas railway station – SBB