Wil railway station

Not to be confused with Wila railway station or Hüntwangen-Wil railway station.

Wil railway station (German: Bahnhof Wil), or Wil SG railway station, is a railway station in Wil, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It sits at the junction of three standard-gauge railway lines: Wil–Kreuzlingen, St. Gallen–Winterthur, and Wil–Ebnat-Kappel. In addition, the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge Frauenfeld–Wil line (operated by Appenzell Railways since 2021) terminates in the station's forecourt.^[1]

Wil
The Wil station building in 2018
General information
Location	Bahnhofplatz 3 Wil, St. Gallen Switzerland
Coordinates	47°27′44.6″N 9°2′27.6″E
Elevation	570 m (1,870 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Wil–Kreuzlingen line St. Gallen–Winterthur line Wil–Ebnat-Kappel line Frauenfeld–Wil line
Distance	110.6 km (68.7 mi) from Sargans[1]
Platforms	6 (main station) 2 (Frauenfeld–Wil)
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways THURBO Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn AG
Connections
Bus	PostAuto Schweiz  722   724   725   726   730  WilMobil 701 702 703 704 705 706 732 733 734 735 Regiobus 729 731
Other information
Fare zone	916 (Tarifverbund Ostwind [de])[2]
Passengers
2018	20,200 per weekday (except the S15)[3]
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Winterthur towards Geneva Airport IC 1 Uzwil towards St. Gallen Winterthur towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof IR 13 Uzwil towards Chur Preceding station St. Gallen S-Bahn Following station Terminus S1 Uzwil towards Schaffhausen Bazenheid towards Wattwil S9 Terminus Terminus S10 Bronschhofen towards Romanshorn Münchwilen towards Frauenfeld S15 Terminus Preceding station Zurich S-Bahn Following station Sirnach towards Brugg AG S12 Terminus Sirnach towards Winterthur S35
Location

Layout

Bus station

S15 train at Wil railway station

The station has two island platforms and two side platforms on the St. Gallen–Winterthur line, with tracks (Gleis) numbered 1–6. These tracks are used by InterCity (IC), InterRegio (IR) and most S-Bahn services. The Frauenfeld–Wil railway (S15) departs from the station's forecourt (Bahnhofplatz) north of the station building, where two platforms and tracks (Gleis 11/12) exist.^[4]

PostAuto Schweiz, WilMobil [de] and RegioBus [de] bus lines depart from the bus station in front of the station building.^[5][6][7]

Services

As of the December 2023 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Wil:^[8]

• / : half-hourly service between Zürich HB and St. Gallen and hourly service to Geneva Airport and Chur.
• St. Gallen S-Bahn (some services also belong to Bodensee S-Bahn):
  • S1: half-hourly service over the St. Gallen–Winterthur line to Schaffhausen (via St. Gallen and Kreuzlingen), supplementing the long-distance services.
  • S9: half-hourly service over the Wil–Ebnat-Kappel line to Wattwil.
  • S10: half-hourly service over the Wil–Kreuzlingen line to Weinfelden and Romanshorn.
  • S15: half-hourly service over the metre-gauge Frauenfeld–Wil line to Frauenfeld via Wängi.
• Zürich S-Bahn:
  • S12 / S35: half-hourly service over the St. Gallen–Winterthur line to Brugg AG (via Zürich HB) / Winterthur, supplementing the long-distance services.

References

1. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 14. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
2. "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind [de]. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
3. "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
4. "Wil station layout" (in German). Swiss Federal Railways. December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
5. "Wil/Uzwil/Flawil/Gossau" (PDF). PostBus Switzerland. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
6. "Liniennetzplan RegioBus [RegioBus bus network]". Retrieved 2023-12-24.
7. "Bus network Wil and surrounding area" (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-24.
8. "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Wil SG" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 13 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.

External links

• Media related to Wil SG railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Wil railway station – SBB