Bilten railway station is a railway station in the
Swiss canton of Glarus and
municipality of Glarus Nord. The station is located on the
Lake Zurich left-bank railway line, owned by the
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), and takes its name from the nearby village of
Bilten
Bilten is a former municipality in the canton of Glarus in Switzerland. Effective from 1 January 2011, Bilten is part of the municipality of Glarus Nord.
History
Bilten is first mentioned in 1050 as ''Billitun''.
Geography
Bilten has an ...
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Layout and connections
Bilten has a
island platform
An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...
with two tracks ( 3–4).
PostAuto Schweiz
PostAuto Switzerland, PostBus Ltd. (known as in Swiss Standard German (), in Swiss French (), in Swiss Italian (), and in Romansh () is a subsidiary company of the Swiss Post, which provides regional and rural bus services throughout Sw ...
operates bus services from the station to
Ziegelbrücke
Ziegelbrücke is a village in Switzerland. Ziegelbrücke is shared by the municipalities of Niederurnen in the canton of Glarus and Schänis in the canton of St. Gallen.
Geography and political situation
The village of Ziegelbrücke is divided ...
and
Pfäffikon.
Services
the following services stop at Bilten:
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S27: on weekdays only, five round-trips during the morning and evening rush hours between and .
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Zürich S-Bahn
The Zürich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Zürich) system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zürich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, ...
/ : individual trains in the late night and early morning to Ziegelbrücke, , and .
References
External links
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Railway stations in the canton of Glarus
Swiss Federal Railways stations
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