Blumenau railway station

Blumenau
The single station platform in 2009
General information
Location	Oberseestrasse Rapperswil-Jona, St. Gallen Switzerland
Coordinates	47°13′25.216″N8°50′32.658″E / 47.22367111°N 8.84240500°E / 47.22367111; 8.84240500
Elevation	413 m (1,355 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line	Rapperswil–Ziegelbrücke
Distance	57.3 km (35.6 mi) from Sargans [1]
Platforms	1
Train operators	Südostbahn (SOB)
Connections	VZO buses (Stadtbus Rapperswil-Jona) [2] 991992996
Construction
Bicycle facilities	present, with roof
Other information
Fare zone	180 (ZVV) [3] 995 and 996 (Tarifverbund Ostwind  [ de ]) [4]
History
Rebuilt	2023
Passengers
2018	500 per weekday [5]
Services
Preceding station St. Gallen S-Bahn Following station Rapperswil Terminus S6 Schmerikon towards Schwanden or Linthal S17 Schmerikon towards Sargans
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Blumenau railway station (German : Bahnhof Blumenau) is one of four active railway stations in the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. The other three railway stations are Rapperswil, Jona and Kempraten. Blumenau railway station is located on the Rapperswil to Ziegelbrücke line of Swiss Federal Railways. ^[1] The next station towards east is now Schmerikon, but until 2004 it used to be Bollingen.

Built in the 1980's, the station was refurbished in 2023 and the platform was lenghtend. ^[6]

Services

Train

As of the December 2023 timetable change, ^[update] the following S-Bahn services stop at Blumenau railway station: ^[7]

• St. Gallen S-Bahn S6 / S17 : half-hourly service between Rapperswil and Ziegelbrücke and hourly service to Schwanden / Linthal or Sargans.

Bus

Two bus stops are within walking distance to Blumenau railway station: Geberit (north of the railway station) and Grünfeld (south of the station). Both are served by municipal bus lines 991 and 992 (and 996 during peak-hours) of Stadtbus Rapperswil-Jona, ^[8] which is provided by Verkehrsbetriebe Zürichsee und Oberland (VZO). ^[9] As of the December 2023 timetable change, ^[update] bus services are as follows:

Line	Route
991	Rapperswil Bahnhof Süd – Kinderzoo – Grünfeld – Geberit – Schachen – Jona, Bahnhof
992	Sonnenhof – Glärnischstrasse – Grünfeld – Geberit – Feldlistrasse – Jona, Bahnhof
996	Rapperswil Bahnhof Süd – Kinderzoo – Grünfeld – Geberit – Schachen/Feldlistrasse – Jona, Bahnhof

References

1. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 13. ISBN   978-3-89494-130-7.
2. "Regionalnetz" (PDF). Zürcher Verkehrsverbund. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
3. "Tarifzonen" (PDF) (in German). Zürcher Verkehrsverbund. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
4. "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind  [ de ]. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
5. "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
6. "Ein Teilstück des Bahnwegs in Rapperswil-Jona wird gesperrt" (in German). Nau. 25 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
7. "Rapperswil - Ziegelbrücke" (PDF) (in German). Swiss Federal Railways. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
8. "Stadtbus Rapperswil-Jona".
9. "Marktgebiet" [Market area] (in German). VZO. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.

External links

• Media related to Blumenau railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Blumenau railway station – SBB