Kalpetran railway station
Kalpetran | |||||||||||||||
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The station building in 2018 | |||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||
| Location | Embd Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°12′50″N 7°50′13″E / 46.21389°N 7.83694°E | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 897 m (2,943 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Brig–Zermatt line | ||||||||||||||
| Distance | 24.21 km (15.04 mi) from Zermatt | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms | ||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | Luftseilbahn Kalpetran-Embd[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Construction | |||||||||||||||
| Accessible | Partly | ||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 8501684 (KALP) | ||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 220 per weekday[2] (MGB) | ||||||||||||||
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Kalpetran railway station , (German: Bahnhof Kalpetran, French: Gare de Kalpetran) is a railway station in the municipality of Embd, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) Brig–Zermatt line and is served by local trains only. The station is a request stop, so passengers wishing to board or disembark must press the stop on demand button at the station or on the train.
Services
As of the December 2023 timetable change, the following services stop at Kalpetran:[3]
- Regio: half-hourly service between Zermatt and Visp, with every other train continuing from Visp to Fiesch.
References
- ^ "Liniennetz Grächen / St. Niklaus" (PDF) (in German). PostBus Switzerland. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Embd, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 8 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
- Media related to Kalpetran railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Kalpetran railway station – SBB