Realp railway station

Not to be confused with Zürich Rehalp railway station.

Realp
Realp with its station in the centre
General information
Location	Bahnhofstrasse 2 Realp Switzerland
Coordinates	46°35′55.07″N 8°30′12.44″E
Elevation	1,537.7 m (5,045 ft)
Owned by	Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Line(s)	Furka Oberalp line
Train operators	Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Connections	Local buses
History
Opened	4 July 1926 (1926-07-04)
Services
Preceding station Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Following station Oberwald towards Visp R 43 Hospental towards Andermatt Terminus R 44 Hospental towards Göschenen Oberwald Terminus Furka car shuttle train Terminus
Location Realp Location within Switzerland

Realp railway station is a metre gauge station serving the municipality of Realp, in the Canton of Uri, Switzerland. The station is close to the eastern portal of the Furka Base Tunnel, on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), which connects Brig in Valais, via Andermatt in Uri, with Göschenen, Uri, and Disentis/Mustér, Graubünden. Since 1 January 2003 (2003-01-01), the FO has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (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, a heritage railway 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:[1][2]

• Regio: hourly service between Visp and Andermatt.
• Frequent car shuttle trains through the Furka Base Tunnel to Oberwald.

The long-distance Glacier Express passes through Realp without stopping; the Glacier Express ceased stopping at Realp in late 2015.[3]

• 
  station building
• 
  station ca. 1981

See also

• Glacier Express
• Car shuttle train
• Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
• Furka Base Tunnel
• Furka Oberalp Bahn

References

Notes

1. "Visp - Brig - Oberwald - Andermatt - Göschenen" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
2. "Autoverlad Furka Oberwald - Realp" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
3. "Glacier Express" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2020.

Further reading

• von Arx, Johannes (2000). Furka-Bergstrecke; Abenteuer Furka (in German). Oberwald, Switzerland: Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke.
• Moser, Beat; Börret, Ralph; Küstner, Thomas (2005). Glacier Express: Von St. Moritz nach Zermatt (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-057-2.
• Moser, Beat; Jossi, Urs (2007). MGB Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German). Vol. 2. Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 978-3-89610-175-4.
• Moser, Beat; Krebs, Peter (2010). Erlebnis Furka-Bergstrecke / Aventure Ligne sommitale de la Furka. Zürich: AS-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-909111-71-8. (in German and French)
• "Official timetable of Switzerland". Bundesamt für Verkehr. (in English)

External links

• Realp railway station – SBB
• Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (in German)
• Official timetable of Switzerland