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![]() The Wattwil station building in 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Wattwil Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 47°17′58.11″N 9°5′11.55″E / 47.2994750°N 9.0865417°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Südostbahn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Connections | PostAuto Schweiz, Busbetrieb Lichtensteig–Wattwil–Ebnat-Kappel (BLWE) and Schneider Busbetriebe buses | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Architect | Heinrich Ditscher (1910), Johann Jakob Breitinger (1870) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2018 | 8200 per weekday[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wattwil railway station (German: Bahnhof Wattwil) is a railway station in Wattwil, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It is an intermediate station on the Bodensee–Toggenburg railway, the southern terminus of the Wil–Ebnat-Kappel railway, and the eastern terminus of the Uznach–Wattwil railway (the latter includes the 8.6 kilometres (5.3 mi) long Ricken Tunnel). It is served by local and long-distance trains.
As of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Wattwil:[2]
Several bus services depart from the station forecourt. Services are provided by Busbetrieb Lichtensteig–Wattwil–Ebnat-Kappel[3][4] Schneider Busbetriebe[5][6] and PostAuto Schweiz.[7] The bus lines are as follows:
(BLWE),Line | Route | Operator |
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622 | (Wattwil railway station – Ricken – Gebertingen –) St. Gallenkappel – Eschenbach – Wagen – Kreuz (Jona railway station) – Rapperswil railway station | Schneider Busbetriebe |
770 | Lichtensteig, Steigrüti – Wattwil railway station – Ulisbach – Ebnat-Kappel railway station – Ebnat-Kappel, Wier | BLWE |
780 | Wattwil railway station – Heiterswil – Hemberg | PostAuto Schweiz |
790 | Wattwil railway station – Ebnat-Kappel railway station – Ebnat-Kappel, Gieselbach – Krummenau – Nesslau-Neu St. Johann railway station – Nesslau – Stein SG – Starkenbach SG – Alt St. Johann – Unterwasser – Wildhaus (– Gams – Grabs SG – Buchs SG railway station) | PostAuto Schweiz |