Chur Altstadt railway station is a small railway station (essentially a street halt) on the Chur–Arosa railway (the ''"Arosabahn"'') of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB). It is situated near the old town (''Altstadt'') of Chur, on Plessurquai by the Plessur river, less than a kilometre (0.76 km) from the

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of the city. It was called Chur Stadt railway station until 8 December 2018. The halt is closer to the shops, bars and attractions of the old town than the main station. A number of local and

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(see below) bus services converge at Malteser, located nearby where Grabenstrasse and Engadinstrasse converge. A footbridge ("Praximerbrüggli") connects the halt with Lindenquai, on the other side of the river.

Stadtbahn

The Chur ''stadtbahn'' ("town railway") is the part of the RhB line from Chur to Arosa which passes through the centre of the city of Chur, with

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. The line starts on Bahnhofplatz, in front of the main railway station, where that station's platforms for the Arosa line are. The line runs along Engadinstrasse from the Bahnhofplatz to the old town, where it then runs briefly along Grabenstrasse and then alongside the Plessur river on Plessurquai ("Plessur Quay"). After Chur Altstadt station, the line continues to run on the road alongside the river, heading up into the suburb of Sand and along Sandstrasse, which is the location of a compact

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depot ("Chur Sand") at 1.42 km from the beginning of the line. Shortly after Sand, at Sassal (where there was once a small station on the line, now not used) the line diverges from the road, which crosses the Plessau, and begins its mountainous assent via the Sassal tunnels.

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), 90.041 (to Peist), 90.042 (to

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), and 90.181/182 (to Lenzerheide,

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90.182 timetable call at the nearby Malteser bus stop.

Services

The following services stop at Chur Altstadt: * Regio: hourly service between and .

Gallery

File:Chur Stadt 2010 4.jpg, The halt seen from Lindenquai; the Praximerbrüggli footbridge is shown and the

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mountain looms in the background File:Chur Stadt 2010 1.jpg, A train waits at the halt File:Chur Arosa Bahn01.jpg, A train leaves the Bahnhofplatz, onto the Stadtbahn on Engadinstrasse File:Chur Arosa near Sand.jpg, A train heading up the line out of Sand

References

External links

* {{RhB web, chur-altstadt Railway stations in Graubünden Railway stations opened in 1914 1914 establishments in Switzerland Rhaetian Railway stations Street running Transport in Chur