Gossau SG railway station

Location
	Gossau SG Location in Switzerland Gossau SG Location in the canton of St. Gallen

Gossau SG
Gossau SG
	The Gossau station building in 2013
General information
Location	Gossau; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°24′42.5″N 9°15′11.2″E / 47.411806°N 9.253111°E
Elevation	637 m (2,090 ft)
Lines	St. Gallen–Winterthur line; Sulgen–Gossau line; Gossau–Wasserauen line;
Distance	23.0 km (14.3 mi) from Sulgen; 90.1 km (56.0 mi) from Sargans;
Platforms	2 island platforms
Tracks	4
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways; Thurbo; Appenzell Railways;
Connections
	PostAuto Schweiz 727 ; RegioBus 151 152 155 159
Other information
Fare zone	212 (Tarifverbund Ostwind)
Passengers
2018	9,100 per weekday (except the S23)
Services
Location
Location
	Gossau SG Location in Switzerland Gossau SG Location in the canton of St. Gallen

Gossau SG railway station (German: Bahnhof Gossau SG) is a railway station in Gossau, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate station on the St. Gallen–Winterthur line and the terminus of the Sulgen–Gossau and 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge Gossau–Wasserauen lines.^[1]

Layout

The station has one island platform and one side platform on the St. Gallen–Winterthur line, with tracks (Gleis) numbered 1, 3 and 4. These tracks are used by InterCity (IC), InterRegio (IR) and S-Bahn services S1 and S5.^[4]

The S23 service departs from the adjacent Appenzell Railways (AB) station, where two platforms and tracks (Gleis 11/12) exist.

PostAuto Schweiz and RegioBus bus lines depart from the bus station in front of the station building (Bahnhofplatz).^[5]^[6]^[7]

As of the December 2023 timetable change, the following services stop at Gossau SG:^[8]

/ : half-hourly service between Zürich HB and St. Gallen and hourly service to Geneva Airport and Chur.

St. Gallen S-Bahn:
- S1: half-hourly service over the St. Gallen–Winterthur line between Wil SG and Schaffhausen via St. Gallen and Romanshorn, supplementing the long-distance services.
- S5: half-hourly (weekdays) or hourly (weekends) service between Weinfelden and St. Gallen; hourly service to St. Margrethen.
- S23: half-hourly service over the Gossau–Wasserauen line to Wasserauen, via Herisau and Appenzell.

During weekends, the station is served by two nighttime S-Bahn services (SN21, SN22), offered by Ostwind fare network,^[9]^[10] and operated by Thurbo for St. Gallen S-Bahn.

St. Gallen S-Bahn:
- SN21: hourly service to Winterthur and to St. Gallen.
- SN22: hourly service to Winterthur and to Heerbrugg (via St. Gallen).

^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 14. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
^ "Gossau SG station layout" (in German). Swiss Federal Railways. December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
^ "Wil/Uzwil/Flawil/Gossau" (PDF). PostBus Switzerland. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
^ "Liniennetzplan RegioBus [RegioBus bus network]". Retrieved 2023-12-24.
^ "St. Gallen West" (PDF). PostBus Switzerland. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2020.
^ "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Gossau SG" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
^ "Ostschweizer Nachtnetz – Noch mehr Zug und Bus am Wochenende". Tarifverbund Ostschweiz. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
^ "OSTWIND-Nachtnetzplan" [OSTWIND nighttime network map] (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 28 August 2025.