Täsch railway station is a

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serving the

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Täsch Täsch is a municipality in the district of Visp in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It is located about north of Zermatt. The local language is Swiss German. History Täsch is first mentioned in 1302 as ''Tech''. In Latin it was known as ...

, in the

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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 ...

. It forms part of the Brig-Visp-Zermatt railway (BVZ), which connects the car-free

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and

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Zermatt Zermatt () is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a year-round population of about 5,800 and is classified as a town by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO). ...

with

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lines at Visp (served by

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) and

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(served by

and BLS AG). Since , the BVZ has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), following a merger between the BVZ and 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). Due to Zermatt's car free status, the MGB has a frequent special shuttle train service between Zermatt and Täsch, where people travelling to and from Zermatt by combustion-engined vehicles are required to park their vehicles. For most of most days, this service operates at 20-minute intervals. The MGB also operates regional services between Zermatt and Brig via Täsch at hourly intervals.Swiss timetable 140. Every day, several Glacier Express trains, which are operated at this point by the MGB, pass through Täsch, but do not stop there.

Services

The following services stop at Zermatt: * Regio: ** half-hourly service between and , with every other train continuing from Visp to . ** shuttle service every twenty minutes to Zermatt.

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Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn

Matterhorn Terminal AG - information about Zermatt shuttle trains
Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn stations Railway stations in the canton of Valais Railway stations opened in 1891 {{Switzerland-railstation-stub

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