Realp railway station is a

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station serving the

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Realp Realp (archaic : ''Frialp'') is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Canton of Uri, Uri in Switzerland. History Realp is first mentioned in 1363 as ''Riealb''. Geography Realp has an area, , of . ...

, in the Canton of

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. The station is close to the eastern portal of the

Furka Base Tunnel The Furka Base Tunnel is a Swiss railway base tunnel on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn's Furka–Oberalp line, an east–west railway connecting the cantons of Valais and Uri. Its west portal lies east of Oberwald (VS), at above sea level and it ...

, on the

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(MGB), which connects

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, via

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in Uri, with

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, Uri, and

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, Graubünden. Since , the FO has been owned and operated by the

(MGB), following a merger between the FO and the Brig-Visp-Zermatt railway (BVZ). Not far from Realp station is another railway station, Realp DFB, which serves the

Furka Steam Railway The Furka Steam Railway () is a largely volunteer-operated heritage railway which operates a partially rack and pinion-operated line across the Furka Pass, between Realp in Canton of Uri, Uri and Oberwald in Valais. Culminating at , above sea lev ...

, a

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operating in summer over the part of the FO that was replaced by the Furka Base Tunnel in 1982.

Services

The following services stop at Realp: * Regio: hourly service between and . * Frequent

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s through the Furka Base Tunnel to . The long-distance ''

Glacier Express The Glacier Express is a direct Panorama Express (PE) train connecting railway stations of the two major mountain resorts of Zermatt and St. Moritz via Andermatt in the central Swiss Alps. The train provides a one-seat ride for an 8-hour end-to-e ...

'' passes through Realp without stopping; the ''Glacier Express'' ceased stopping at Realp in late 2015. SBB Historic - F 122 00825 003 - Realp FO Stationsgebaeude mit Gueterschuppen Bahnseite.jpg, station building SBB Historic - F 122 00825 002 - Realp FO Stationsgebaeude mit Gueterschuppen Bahnseite.jpg, station ca. 1981

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Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn stations Railway stations in the canton of Uri Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1926

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