Zermatt railway station is a

metre gauge Metre-gauge railways ( US: meter-gauge railways) are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre. Metre gauge is used in around of tracks around the world. It was used by several European colonial powers including France, Britain and ...

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serving the car-free

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and

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Zermatt Zermatt (, ) is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Visp (district), Visp in the German language, German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a year-round population of about 5,800 and is cl ...

, in the Canton of

Valais Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion, Switzer ...

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. It is the southern terminus of the BVZ Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ), which connects Zermatt with

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lines at

Visp Visp (; ; ) is the capital of the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Geography Visp lies in the Rhône valley, at the confluence of the Vispa and the Rhône, west of Brig-Glis. Visp has an area, , of . Of this a ...

(served by SBB-CFF-FFS) and

Brig A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the l ...

(served by SBB-CFF-FFS and

BLS AG BLS AG is a Swiss railway company created by the 2006 merger of BLS Lötschbergbahn and Regionalverkehr Mittelland AG. Its ownership is divided, with 55.8% of it owned by the canton of Berne, and 21.7% by the Swiss Confederation. It has two ma ...

). Since , the BVZ has been owned and operated by the

Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn is a narrow gauge railway line and a railway company (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn AG, MGB) in Switzerland. The track width is . It was created in 2003 through an amalgamation of Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO) and BVZ Zermatt ...

(MGB), following a merger between the BVZ and the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO). The station is across the street from Zermatt GGB railway station, the valley terminus of the

Gornergrat Railway The Gornergrat Railway (; GGB) is a mountain rack railway, located in the Switzerland, Swiss Valais, canton of Valais. It links the Zermatt, resort village of Zermatt, situated at above mean sea level, to the summit of the Gornergrat. The Gorn ...

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Every day, several

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 ...

trains, which are operated at this point by the MGB, either originate from, or terminate at, Zermatt station. The MGB also operates regional services to Brig at half-hourly intervals. Additionally, due to Zermatt's car-free status, the MGB has a frequent special shuttle train service between Zermatt and nearby

Täsch Täsch is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is located about north of Zermatt. The local language is Swiss German. History Täsch is first mentioned in 1302 as ''Tech''. In Latin it was known as ...

, where people travelling to and from Zermatt by combustion-engined vehicles are required to park. For the better part of most days, this service operates at 20-minute intervals; it takes 12 minutes.

Services

the following services stop at Zermatt: * ''

'': one or more trains per day, depending on the season, to or . *

RegioExpress RegioExpress, commonly abbreviated to RE, is a Train categories in Europe, category of fast regional train service in Switzerland, run by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) or other railway companies (such as Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia, ...

: half-hourly service to , with every other train continuing to . * Regio: shuttle service every twenty minutes to .

Gallery

File:Bahnhof Zermatt 1900.jpg, Zermatt railway station, ca 1900. File:Glacier-Express-label.JPG, Glacier Express welcome sign. File:Bahnhof Zermatt 2005.jpg, The station concourse. File:MGB HGe 44 102 Zermatt 02.08.2006.JPG, HGe 4/4 II No. 102 and Tm 74.

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* {{SBB web, 1689, zermatt
Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn stations Railway stations in the canton of Valais Transport in Zermatt Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1891

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