Buchs railway station

railway station in Buchs in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Place railway_station Q15964098
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Summary

Buchs railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.89% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (167 views/month, #165 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Buchs[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Transport network: Vorarlberg S-Bahn[5], St. Gallen S-Bahn[6]
  • Instance of: border train station[7]
  • Connecting line: Feldkirch–Buchs railway[8], Chur–Rorschach railway line[9]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[10]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[11]
  • Adjacent station: Schaan-Vaduz railway station[12], Räfis-Burgerau railway station[13], Salez-Sennwald railway station[14], Sevelen railway station[15], Sargans railway station[16], Feldkirch railway station[17]
  • Station code: BU[18]
  • Part of: Liechtenstein–Switzerland border[19]
  • Commons category: Buchs SG railway station[20]
  • Has part(s): Signal Box Building Buchs SG[21], Depot Buchs SG[22], Station with engine shed and signal box[23], Service Building Restaurant Buchs SG[24]
  • Official website: https://www.sbb.ch/de/bahnhof-services/am-bahnhof/bahnhoefe/bahnhof.9404.buchs-sg.html[25]
  • Number of platform tracks: 4[26]
  • Connecting service: RegioExpress[27], S4[28], S2[29], Transalpin[30], Railjet[31]
  • Official name: Buchs SG[32]
  • Date of official opening: 1858[33]
  • Elevation above sea level: 447 m[34]
  • Number of platform faces: 3[35]
  • State of use: in use[36]
  • Street address: Bahnhofplatz 3–4a, 9470 Buchs SG[37]

Why It Matters

Buchs railway station has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . ostwind.ch. ostwind.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . sob.ch. sob.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . sob.ch. sob.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . sob.ch. sob.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'hu', 'it', 'ko', 'lmo', 'nl']
    Official name → {'lang': 'de', 'text': 'Buchs SG'}
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  2. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
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  3. 14w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-07-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+447'}
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Adjacent station: Schaan-Vaduz railway station"
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