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Visp railway station
Visp railway station is a junction station at Visp (French: Viège), in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It has a modern station building completed in 2007, and is served by two standard gauge lines and a metre gauge line.
Visp station is the busiest railway station in Valais.
Every day, about 230 trains stop at Visp, and approximately 25,300 passengers use the station.
The older of the two standard gauge lines serving Visp is the Simplon Railway, which links (Geneva Airport, Geneva and) Lausanne on Lake Geneva with Brig, at the northern portal of the Simplon Tunnel, via Sion.
In 2007, Visp became a standard gauge junction station, upon the opening of the New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA), connecting (Bern and) Spiez with Brig and the Simplon Tunnel, via the Lötschberg Base Tunnel.
All of the standard gauge passenger trains stopping at Visp are operated by SBB CFF FFS, even though the Lötschberg Base Tunnel is owned by another railway company, BLS AG.
Visp is also served by the metre gauge Brig-Visp-Zermatt railway (BVZ). Since 1 January 2003, the BVZ has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), following a merger between the BVZ and the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO).
The MGB also operates metre gauge half-hourly service from Zermatt to Visp, and from Visp to Brig and beyond, at hourly intervals.
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Visp railway station
Visp railway station is a junction station at Visp (French: Viège), in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. It has a modern station building completed in 2007, and is served by two standard gauge lines and a metre gauge line.
Visp station is the busiest railway station in Valais.
Every day, about 230 trains stop at Visp, and approximately 25,300 passengers use the station.
The older of the two standard gauge lines serving Visp is the Simplon Railway, which links (Geneva Airport, Geneva and) Lausanne on Lake Geneva with Brig, at the northern portal of the Simplon Tunnel, via Sion.
In 2007, Visp became a standard gauge junction station, upon the opening of the New Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA), connecting (Bern and) Spiez with Brig and the Simplon Tunnel, via the Lötschberg Base Tunnel.
All of the standard gauge passenger trains stopping at Visp are operated by SBB CFF FFS, even though the Lötschberg Base Tunnel is owned by another railway company, BLS AG.
Visp is also served by the metre gauge Brig-Visp-Zermatt railway (BVZ). Since 1 January 2003, the BVZ has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), following a merger between the BVZ and the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO).
The MGB also operates metre gauge half-hourly service from Zermatt to Visp, and from Visp to Brig and beyond, at hourly intervals.