Bühler Railway Station
Bühler railway station ( German: ''Bahnhof Bühler'') is a railway station in the municipality of Bühler, in the Swiss canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden. It is located on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen line of Appenzell Railways, and is served by local trains only. History A railway was demanded by Bühler industrialists and plans were made in the 1870s to extend the railway through Bühler to St Gallen. However, the station needed to be located above the village to maintain a regular gradient of the line. This proved impractical for local industry so the project was abandoned in 1877. With improvements to railway technology, the project was revived in 1882 and the station was completed in 1889. The station was renovated in 2021. Services the following services stop at Bühler: * St. Gallen S-Bahn The St. Gallen S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn St. Gallen) is an S-Bahn-style commuter rail in Eastern Switzerland and neighbouring area ...
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Bühler
Bühler is a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. History Bühler is first mentioned in 1479 as ''Ullrich Büllershoff''. Geography Bühler has an area, , of . Of this area, 62.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 26% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 10.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (0.7%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The municipality is located in the ''Appenzell Mittelland'' on the north side of the ''Rotbachtal''. It consists of the village of Bühler and scattered hamlets and factories. Demographics Bühler has a population () of 1,652, of which about 23.5% are foreign nationals.
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