page_title: Bodensee–Toggenburg railway
section_title: Operations by the Südostbahn
hierarchical_section_title: Bodensee–Toggenburg railway / Operations / Operations by the Südostbahn
caption_attribution_description: English: Switzerland Above Ebnat Eappel Toggenburg regional FLIRT SOB on the Giesel Bach Viaduct Deutsch: Schweiz Oberhalb Ebnat Eappel Toggenburg Regionalzug FLIRT der SOB auf dem Gieselbach Viadukt Français&#160;: Suisse Au-dessus Ebnat Eappel Toggenburg régionale FLIRT SOB sur le viaduc de Giesel Bach
context_page_description: The Bodensee–Toggenburg railway is a mainly single-track standard-gauge line connecting Romanshorn on Lake Constance and the Toggenburg region in Eastern Switzerland. It was built by the Bodensee-Toggenburg-Bahn, a former railway company, which existed from 1910 until its merger with the "old" Südostbahn to form the "new" Südostbahn on 1 January 2001. Today, the line together with the Wattwil–Ebnat-Kappel section forms the eastern network of the Südostbahn.
  The BT consisted of the standard gauge adhesion railway from Romanshorn to St. Gallen St. Fiden opened on 3 October 1910 and the standard gauge adhesion line from St. Gallen to Wattwil, as well as the line from Ebnat-Kappel to Nesslau-Neu St. Johann opened on 1 October 1912.
  The connecting sections of line from St. Gallen St. Fiden to St. Gallen HB and from Wattwil to Ebnat-Kappel were controlled by the Swiss Federal Railways, as it leased the Wattwil–Ebnat-Kappel section from the BT.
context_section_description: The line of the Bodensee-Toggenburg Railway company is now operated as part of the St. Gallen S-Bahn. The fastest service is the hourly Voralpen-Express (VAE) of the SOB from St.Gallen via Rapperswil to Lucerne and the RegioExpress from St.Gallen via Romanshorn and Konstanz to Kreuzlingen, which Thurbo operates every two hours. The whole line from Nesslau to Romanshorn is served by line S8, operated by Thurbo, which extends from Romanshorn to Schaffhausen. These services are supplemented by the S4 circular line (St. Gallen–Uznach–Sargans–St. Gallen) of the SOB. The S81 service (Herisau–Wittenbach) operates only in the peak hours.
  The Südostbahn wants to reduce journey times from Wattwil to Nesslau to under half an hour in order to be able to run half-hourly rather than hourly services. Therefore the line will be upgraded as far as possible for higher speeds in 2019. Between Wattwil and Ebnat-Kappel trains will be able to run at 140 km/h. The exit speed from Wattwil station will be increased around 2021. The reversal of the service in Nesslau has been carried out automatically without intervention by a driver since 2017.
  Important freight traffic consists of block trains to the Häggenschwil-Winden tank farm and freight trains to serve a private railway siding in St. Gallen Haggen.
caption: RABe 526 set on the Upper Giesel­bach Bridge at Ebnat-Kappel. Currently, passenger traffic in the upper Toggenburg is operated by THURBO.
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