St. Margrethen railway station

Location
	St. Margrethen Location in Switzerland St. Margrethen St. Margrethen (Canton of St. Gallen)

St. Margrethen
St. Margrethen
	The station building in 2018
General information
Location	St. Margrethen; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°27′11.56″N 9°38′17.68″E / 47.4532111°N 9.6382444°E
Elevation	402 m (1,319 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Lines	Chur–Rorschach line; St. Margrethen–Lauterach line;
Distance	53.8 km (33.4 mi) from Sargans
Train operators	Thurbo; Südostbahn; Swiss Federal Railways; Austrian Federal Railways;
Other information
Fare zone	234 (Tarifverbund Ostwind)
Services
Location
Location
	St. Margrethen Location in Switzerland St. Margrethen St. Margrethen (Canton of St. Gallen)

St. Margrethen railway station (German: Bahnhof St. Margrethen) is a railway station in St. Margrethen, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate stop on the Chur–Rorschach line and the western terminus of the St. Margrethen–Lauterach line to Austria.^[1] It is located at the Swiss–Austrian border.

Services

As of the December 2024 timetable change, the following services stop at St. Margrethen:^[3]

EuroCity: six trains per day between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and München Hauptbahnhof, via Bregenz (runs as ECE 88 in Germany).
: hourly service between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Chur, half-hourly service between St. Gallen and Chur.
St. Gallen S-Bahn:
- S2 / S4: half-hourly service between Wattwil and Altstätten SG via St. Gallen and hourly service to Rapperswil, Sargans, and Nesslau-Neu St. Johann.
- S5: hourly service to Weinfelden.
- S7: on weekdays, three trains per day between Romanshorn and Lindau-Reutin; service increases to every two hours on weekends.
Vorarlberg S-Bahn:
- S3: on weekdays, half-hourly service to Bregenz; service is hourly on weekends.
- R5: on weekdays, six trains per day to Dornbirn, three to Feldkirch.^[4]

During weekends, the station is served by a nighttime S-Bahn service (SN22), offered by Ostwind fare network,^[5]^[6] and operated by Thurbo for St. Gallen S-Bahn.

St. Gallen S-Bahn SN22: hourly service to Winterthur and to Heerbrugg, via St. Gallen.

^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 15. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind. 12 December 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
^ "St. Gallen - Rorschach - Buchs SG - Sargans" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. 25 September 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
^ "Fahrplan R5 (S5)" (PDF). vmobil.at. 10 December 2024. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
^ "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.