Fiesch railway station is a

metre gauge Metre-gauge railways are narrow-gauge railways with track gauge of or 1 metre. The metre gauge is used in around of tracks around the world. It was used by European colonial powers, such as the French, British and German Empires. In Europe, la ...

station serving the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Fiesch Fiesch is a municipality in the district of Goms in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Nearby Fiescheralp is administered by Fiesch and is accessible by the Eggishorn lift. It has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage site for its view of ...

, in the Canton of

Valais Valais ( , , ; frp, Valês; german: Wallis ), more formally the Canton of Valais,; german: Kanton Wallis; in other official Swiss languages outside Valais: it, (Canton) Vallese ; rm, (Chantun) Vallais. is one of the cantons of Switzerland, 26 ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

. The station forms part of the

Furka Oberalp Bahn The Furka Oberalp Railway (german: link=no, Furka Oberalp Bahn) is a narrow gauge mountain railway in Switzerland with a gauge of . It runs in the Graubünden, Uri and Canton of Valais. Since January 1, 2003, it is part of the Matterhorn Gott ...

(FO), which connects

Brig A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the ...

, via

Furka Base Tunnel The Furka Base Tunnel is a Swiss railway base tunnel on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn's Furka–Oberalp line, an east-west railway connecting the cantons of Valais and Uri. Its west portal lies east of Oberwald (VS), at above sea level and its ...

Andermatt Andermatt ( rm, ) is a mountain village and municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. At an elevation of above sea level, Andermatt is located at the center of the Saint-Gotthard Massif and the historical ce ...

Uri Uri may refer to: Places * Canton of Uri, a canton in Switzerland * Úri, a village and commune in Hungary * Uri, Iran, a village in East Azerbaijan Province * Uri, Jammu and Kashmir, a town in India * Uri (island), an island off Malakula Islan ...

, with

Göschenen Göschenen (German, it, Casinotta, rm, Caschanuttais) a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It sits at the northern end of the Gotthard tunnel. The Göschenen riots (1875) saw Urner troops opening fire on Italian miners ...

, Uri, and

Disentis/Mustér Disentis (German) or Mustér (, Romansh), with its official name Disentis/Mustér is a village and a municipality in the Surselva Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The skiing and summer tourism resort high up in the Rhine valley is th ...

, Graubünden. Since , the FO has been owned and operated by the

Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn The Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn is a narrow gauge railway line and a railway company (Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn AG, MGB) in Switzerland. The track width is . It was created in 2003 through an amalgamation of Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO) and BVZ Zermatt-B ...

(MGB), following a merger between the FO and the Brig-Visp-Zermatt railway (BVZ). The railway station was moved in 2019 and completely renewed. It now includes the lower end of the Fiesch -

Fiescheralp Fiescheralp (also known as ''Kühboden'', literally "cows' floor") is a locality in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, situated above Fiesch at an elevation of above sea level. It is the highest of the three car-free resorts lying on the southern ...

gondola, further connected to the

Eggishorn The Eggishorn is a mountain in the southeastern part of the Bernese Alps, located north of Fiesch in the Swiss canton of Valais. A cable car station is located on a secondary summit named ''Fiescherhorli'' (2,893 m), 500 metres south of the main ...

.Fiesch railway station
on the Swiss National Map

Services

The following services stop at Fiesch: * Regio: ** hourly service to . ** hourly service between and . The long-distance ''

Glacier Express The Glacier Express (GEX) is a direct train connecting railway stations of the two major mountain resorts of Zermatt and St. Moritz via Andermatt in the central Swiss Alps. The train is not an "express" in the sense of being a high-speed train ...

'' passes through Fiesch without stopping; the ''Glacier Express'' ceased stopping at Fiesch in late 2018. Fiesch 20191207E135.JPG, Station building and lower station of the aerial lift (Luftseilbahn Fiesch-Eggishorn), in 2019 SBB Historic - F 122 00377 002 - Fiesch FO Stationsgebaeude mit Gueterschuppen Bahnseite.jpg, Station building at the pre-2019 location (2003) SBB Historic - F 116 00001 175 - Fiesch.tif, Station building (1962)

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Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1914 Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn stations Railway stations in the canton of Valais {{Switzerland-railstation-stub

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