Stalden-Saas railway station

Not to be confused with Stalden i.E. railway station.

Stalden-Saas railway station (German: Bahnhof Stalden-Saas, French: Gare de Stalden-Saas) is a railway station in the municipality of Stalden, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge Brig–Zermatt line and is served by local trains only.

Stalden-Saas
The station building and platforms in 2020
General information
Location	Stalden Switzerland
Coordinates	46°13′55″N 7°52′16″E
Elevation	800 m (2,600 ft)
Owned by	Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Line(s)	Brig–Zermatt line
Distance	27.72 km (17.22 mi) from Zermatt
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Train operators	Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn
Connections	PostAuto AG buses[1]
Construction
Accessible	Partly
Other information
Station code	8501683 (STAS)
Passengers
2023	860 per weekday[2] (MGB)
Services
Preceding station Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn Following station Kalpetran towards Zermatt RE 41 Visp Terminus RE 42 Visp towards Fiesch
Location

Services

As of the December 2023 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Stalden-Saas:^[3]

• Regio: half-hourly service between Zermatt and Visp, with every other train continuing from Visp to Fiesch.

Film

Stalden-Saas railway station appears in the 1979 Charles Bronson action film Love and Bullets. Bronson (as character Charlie Congers) and Jill Ireland (Jackie Pruit) disembark from a train and begin driving toward Kandersteg from the station carpark.

References

1. "Liniennetz Grächen / St. Niklaus" (PDF) (in German). PostBus Switzerland. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
2. "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Stalden, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
3. "Brig - Visp - Zermatt" (PDF) (in German). öv-info.ch. 27 September 2023. Retrieved 7 October 2024.

External links

• Media related to Stalden-Saas railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Stalden-Saas railway station – SBB