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Riffelalp railway station

railway station on the Gornergrat railway in the Swiss canton of Valais
Place railway_station Q17100110
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Summary

Riffelalp railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.96% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (45 views/month, #178 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Canton of Valais[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Connecting line: Gornergrat railway[5], Riffelalp decauville[6]
  • Owned by: Gornergrat Railway[7]
  • Operator: Gornergrat Railway[8]
  • Adjacent station: Riffelberg railway station[9], Findelbach railway station[10]
  • Station code: RIAL[11]
  • Commons category: Riffelalp railway station[12]
  • Number of platform tracks: 2[13]
  • Official name: Riffelalp[14]
  • Date of official opening: 1898[15]
  • Elevation above sea level: 2212 m[16]
  • State of use: in use[17]
  • P14976: F4C539C5-E903-4464-9696-921EBC97CD28[18]

Why It Matters

Riffelalp railway station is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . opentransportdata.swiss. opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → F4C539C5-E903-4464-9696-921EBC97CD28
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  2. 4d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
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    Number of platform tracks → {'amount': '+2'}
    Instance of → railway station
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