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Zermatt railway station is a metre gauge railway station serving the car-free mountaineering and ski resort of Zermatt, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland.It is the southern terminus of the BVZ Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ), which connects Zermatt with standard gauge lines at Visp (served by SBB-CFF-FFS) and Brig (served by SBB-CFF-FFS and BLS AG).
The station is situated at the summit of the Gornergrat, in the Swiss municipality of Zermatt and canton of Valais. At an altitude of 3,089 m (10,135 ft) above mean sea level, it is the highest open-air railway station in Europe. [1] [2] Near the station is the Kulm Hotel, a hotel and observatory.
Zermatt (German: [tsɛʁˈmat] ⓘ, Swiss Standard German:) 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).
Zermatt GGB railway station (German: Bahnhof Zermatt GGB, French: Gare de Zermatt GGB) is a railway station in the municipality of Zermatt, in the Swiss canton of Valais.It is the northern terminus of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge Gornergrat Railway and is served by local trains only.
Switzerland includes most of the highest railways of Europe and therefore also includes its highest railway stations, both underground and open-air, on dead-end rail and on rail crossing. With the notable exception of the region of Graubünden , where are some of the highest European towns connected to railways, most of these stations are on ...
It links the resort village of Zermatt, situated at 1,604 m (5,262 ft) above mean sea level, to the summit of the Gornergrat. The Gornergrat railway station is situated at an altitude of 3,089 m (10,135 ft), which makes the Gornergrat Railway the second highest railway in Europe after the Jungfrau , and the highest open-air railway of the ...
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The station forms part of the Zermatt ski area. From 1958 to 2007 [ 2 ] [ 3 ] there was a cable car from Gornergrat over the Hohtälli (3,275 m (10,745 ft)) to the Stockhorn (3,405 m (11,171 ft)) which, until the construction of the Klein Matterhorn cable car, was the highest mountain station in Zermatt.