Schachen (Herisau) railway station
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| Location | Herisau Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°23′10″N 9°14′38″E / 47.386°N 9.244°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 789 m (2,589 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Südostbahn | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | Bodensee–Toggenburg | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 213 (Tarifverbund Ostwind)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Schachen (Herisau) railway station (German: Bahnhof Schachen (Herisau)) is a railway station in Herisau, in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. It is an intermediate station on the Bodensee–Toggenburg railway and is served as a request stop by local trains only.
Services
As of the December 2023 timetable change, the following services stop at Schachen (Herisau):[2]
- St. Gallen S-Bahn S2 / S4: half-hourly service between Wattwil and Altstätten SG via St. Gallen and hourly service to Rapperswil, Sargans, and Nesslau-Neu St. Johann.
On weekends (Friday and Saturday nights), there is also a nighttime S-Bahn services (SN72) offered by the Ostwind tariff network.[3][4]
- SN72: hourly service to Lichtensteig and to Romanshorn, via St. Gallen.
See also
References
- ^ "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind. 12 December 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- ^ "St. Gallen - Wattwil - Rapperswil" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
- ^ "Ostschweizer Nachtnetz – Noch mehr Zug und Bus am Wochenende" [Eastern Switzerland's nighttime network – More trains and buses on the weekend] (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2025.
- ^ "OSTWIND-Nachtnetzplan" [OSTWIND nighttime network map] (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2025.
External links
Media related to Schachen (Herisau) railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Schachen (Herisau) station on SBB
