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Mühlehorn Railway Station
Mühlehorn railway station () is a railway station in Mühlehorn, in the Swiss canton of Glarus. It is an intermediate stop on the Ziegelbrücke–Sargans line. Layout and connections Mühlehorn has a side platform with a single track ( 1). PostAuto Schweiz operates bus services from the station to Glarus Nord and Ziegelbrücke. Schiffsbetrieb Walensee operates ferries on the Walensee Lake Walen, also known as Lake Walenstadt or (), is one of the larger lakes in Switzerland. Located in the east of the country, about two thirds of its area are in the canton of St. Gallen and about one third in the canton of Glarus. Its na ... from a ferry dock across the street from the station. Services the following services stop at Mühlehorn: * St. Gallen S-Bahn : hourly service between and via . References External links * * {{SBB web, 9418, muehlehorn Railway stations in the canton of Glarus Swiss Federal Railways stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mühlehorn
Mühlehorn is a former Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Glarus (canton), Glarus in Switzerland. Effective from 1 January 2011, Mühlehorn is part of the municipality of Glarus Nord. History Mühlehorn is first mentioned in 1551 as ''Mülihorn''. Geography Mühlehorn has an area, , of . Of this area, 33.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 52.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (9.9%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). Mühlehorn is located on the southern shore of the Walensee. It consists of the village of Mühlehorn and the hamlet (place), hamlets of Vortobel, Tiefenwinkel and Mühletal which are on the north-east border of the canton. Demographics Mühlehorn had a population (as of 2010) of 416. , 13.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switzerland
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Swiss Alps, Alps and the Jura Mountains, Jura; the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, whereas most of the country's Demographics of Switzerland, 9 million people are concentrated on the plateau, which hosts List of cities in Switzerland, its largest cities and economic centres, including Zurich, Geneva, and Lausanne. Switzerland is a federal republic composed of Cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons, with federal authorities based in Bern. It has four main linguistic and cultural regions: German, French, Italian and Romansh language, Romansh. Although most Swiss are German-speaking, national identity is fairly cohesive, being rooted in a common historical background, shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiss Federal Railways
Swiss Federal Railways (, SBB; , CFF; , FFS) is the national railway company of Switzerland. The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Bern. It used to be a State-owned enterprise, government institution, but since 1999 it has been a special stock corporation whose shares are held by the Swiss Confederation and the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss cantons. It is the largest rail and transport company of Switzerland; it operates on most standard gauge lines of the Rail transport in Switzerland, Swiss railway network. It also heavily collaborates with most other transport companies of the country, such as the BLS AG, BLS, one of its main competitors, or (SOB), to provide fully integrated public transport timetable, timetables with Clock-face scheduling, cyclic schedules. SBB was ranked first among national Rail transport in Europe, European rail systems in the 2017 European Railway Performance Index for its intensity of use, quality of service, and safety rating. Whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Side Platform
A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, one for each direction of travel, is the basic design used for double-track railway lines (as opposed to, for instance, the island platform where a single platform lies between the tracks). Side platforms may result in a wider overall footprint for the station compared with an island platform, where a single width of platform can be shared by riders using either track. In some stations, the two side platforms are connected by a footbridge or tunnel to allow safe access to the alternate platform. While a pair of side platforms is often provided on a dual-track line, a single side platform is usually sufficient (trains are usually only boarded from one side) for a single-track line. Layout Where the station is close to a level crossing (g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Südostbahn
The Südostbahn (German language, German, ) – commonly abbreviated to SOB – is a Switzerland, Swiss railway company, and a network in Central Switzerland, Central and Eastern Switzerland. It resulted from the merger of the Schweizerische Südostbahn (1890), original SOB with the Bodensee–Toggenburg railway (BT) at the end of 2001. The Schweizerische Südostbahn AG (Swiss South-Eastern Railway SA) is a small private railway jointly owned by the Canton of St. Gallen, cantonal and Federal administration of Switzerland, federal governments as an Aktiengesellschaft (AG). Network The rail network of the Südostbahn (SOB) consists of that formerly owned by Bodensee–Toggenburg railway, BT in Eastern Switzerland, northeast Switzerland (between Lake Constance and Toggenburg): * Romanshorn–St. Gallen St. Fiden railway station, St. Gallen St. Fiden line, * St. Gallen–Herisau–Degersheim–Wattwil line, and * (Wattwil–)Ebnat-Kappel–Krummenau–Nesslau, Nesslau-Neu Sank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Switzerland, and also in France, Germany, and Liechtenstein. The Swiss PostAuto service evolved as a motorized successor to the stagecoaches that previously carried passengers and mail in Switzerland, with the Swiss postal service providing postbus services carrying both passengers and mail. Although this combination had been self-evident in the past, the needs of each diverged towards the end of the twentieth century, when the conveyance of parcels was progressively separated from public transportation. This split became official with the conversion of PostAuto into a separate subsidiary of the Swiss Post in February 2005. The buses operated by PostAuto are a Swiss icon, with a distinctive yellow livery and three-tone horn. The company uses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schiffsbetrieb Walensee
Schiffsbetrieb Walensee () is a transportation company in Switzerland. It operates a small fleet of ships on the Walensee, linking communities around the lake. Services the company operates two routes on the lake: * Längskurs (): seasonal (April–October) service between Weesen and Walenstadt, operating the full length of the lake. * Querkurs (): year-round service between Murg and Quinten. See also * Transport in Switzerland Switzerland has a dense network of roads and railways. The Swiss public transport network has a total length of and has more than 2,600 stations and stops. The crossing of the Alps is an important route for European transportation, as the Al ... References External links * {{Swiss Boat Operators, state=collapsed Shipping companies of Switzerland Transport in the canton of St. Gallen Transport in the canton of Glarus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canton Of Switzerland
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the Federated state, member states of the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the . Two important periods in the development of the Old Swiss Confederacy are summarized by the terms ('Eight Cantons'; from 1353 to 1481) and ('Thirteen Cantons', from 1513 to 1798).rendered "the 'confederacy of eight'" and "the 'Thirteen-Canton Confederation'", respectively, in: Each canton of the Old Swiss Confederacy, formerly also ('lieu/locality', from before 1450), or ('estate', from ), was a fully sovereignty, sovereign state with its own border controls, army, and currency from at least the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848, with a brief period of centralised government during the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803). The term has been widely used since the 19th century. "" The number of canton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canton Of Glarus
The canton of Glarus ( ; ; ; ) is a cantons of Switzerland, canton in east-central Switzerland. The capital is Glarus. The population speaks a variety of Alemannic German. The majority of the population (81%) identifies as Christianity in Switzerland, Christian, about evenly split between Swiss Reformed Church, Protestants and Roman Catholicism in Switzerland, Catholics. History According to legend, the inhabitants of the Linth Valley were converted to Christianity in the 6th century by the Hiberno-Scottish mission, Irish monk Fridolin of Säckingen, Saint Fridolin, the founder of Säckingen Abbey in what is now the Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg. From the 9th century, the area around Glarus was owned by Säckingen Abbey, the town of Glarus being recorded as ''Clarona''. The Alemanni began to settle in the valley in the early 8th century. The Alemannic German language took hold only gradually and was dominant by the 11th century. By 1288, the Habsburgs had claimed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glarus Nord
Glarus Nord is one of three Municipalities of Switzerland, municipalities of the canton of Glarus, Switzerland (the others being Glarus and Glarus Süd). Effective from 1 January 2011, Glarus Nord incorporates the former municipalities of Bilten, Filzbach, Mollis, Mühlehorn, Näfels, Niederurnen, Oberurnen and Obstalden.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 18 February 2011 History Bilten 
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Ziegelbrücke
Ziegelbrücke is a village situated on both sides of the Linth Channel in Switzerland. Ziegelbrücke is shared by the Municipalities of Switzerland, municipalities of Niederurnen in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Glarus (canton), Glarus and Schänis in the canton of St. Gallen, with the Linth forming the boundary between these municipalities. Name The name refers to a bridge () covered by a roof with tiles (). The presence of such a bridge was first documented in 1532. This bridge was located approximately where the current bridge over the Linth Channel is nowadays. However, prior to the Linth#River_regulation_of_the_Linth, taming of the Linth (1807–1823), the River Linth ran west of Lake Walen (''Walensee''), and where the Linth Channel is today, there used to be a small river, the Maag, flowing out of Lake Walen and into the former River Linth. The old bridge was over the Maag. Geography and political situation The village of Ziegelbrücke is divided by the Linth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
