Chur railway station

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Chur
Central pass-through (for metre-gauge) and terminal (for standard-gauge) railway station, PostAuto/AutoDaPosta terminal station.
Trains at Chur station
General information
Location	Bahnhofplatz 1-2 Chur Switzerland
Coordinates	46°51′11.088″N 9°31′44.108″E / 46.85308000°N 9.52891889°E / 46.85308000; 9.52891889
Elevation	584 m (1,916 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways Rhaetian Railway
Line(s)	Chur–Rorschach line Landquart–Thusis line Chur–Arosa line
Distance	13.7 km (8.5 mi) from Landquart 25.7 km (16.0 mi) from Sargans [1]
Platforms	6
Tracks	15
Train operators	Südostbahn Swiss Federal Railways THURBO Rhaetian Railway Glacier Express Deutsche Bahn
Connections	PostAuto Schweiz and Bus und Service [de] buses[2]
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Platform levels	2 (3 passenger levels)
History
Opened	30 June 1858 (1858-06-30)
Passengers
2018	24,900 per working day[3]
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Landquart towards Basel SBB IC 3 Terminus Landquart towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof IR 13 Preceding station Südostbahn Following station Landquart towards Bern IR 35 Aare Linth Terminus Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Landquart towards Hamburg-Altona ICE 12 Terminus ICE 20 Preceding station Rhaetian Railway Following station Tiefencastel towards Tirano Bernina Express Terminus Reichenau-Tamins towards St. Moritz IR 38 Domat/Ems towards Disentis/Mustér RE 7 Domat/Ems towards Thusis RE 8 Terminus RE 6 Chur Altstadt towards Arosa R 16 Preceding station Glacier Express Following station Disentis/Mustér towards Zermatt Glacier Express Reverses direction Tiefencastel towards St. Moritz Preceding station St. Gallen S-Bahn Following station Landquart towards Sargans S12 Terminus Preceding station Chur S-Bahn Following station Chur West towards Thusis S1 Chur Wiesental towards Schiers Chur West towards Rhäzüns S2
Location

Chur railway station (German: Bahnhof Chur) serves the town of Chur, capital of the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Opened in 1858, it is the most important railway junction in Graubünden.

The station is the terminus of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) standard-gauge main line from Zürich, and is also one of the most important stations on the Rhaetian Railway (RhB) metre-gauge network.^[1]

Since 1986, on top of it one finds the central Grisonian PostAuto/AutoDaPosta bus terminal.

SBB InterCity, InterRegio, and RegioExpress services stop at the station, alongside Rhaetian Railway InterRegio, RegioExpress and Regio services. The station is also served by several Deutsche Bahn InterCity Express trains and by the Glacier Express. Finally, local service is provided by both the St. Gallen and Chur S-Bahn networks.