page_title: Chur–Rorschach railway
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Chur–Rorschach railway / Operations
caption_attribution_description: Südostbahn at sunset in the train station in Rapperswil (Switzerland), Seedamm in the background.
context_page_description: The Chur–Rorschach railway, also called the Rheintallinie, is a standard gauge railway line in Switzerland. It belongs to the Swiss Federal Railways and is located in the cantons of St. Gallen and the Grisons.
context_section_description: Since 13 December 2009, two of the three daily EuroCitys to and from Austria have been replaced by Railjet services. This saves a total of 40 minutes running time between Zürich and Vienna, due, among other things, to having faster turnarounds in Buchs. The third train, the former Transalpin service, was also replaced by a Railjet service in June 2010, but, unlike the first two, runs as two coupled sets. Nine day and night trains a day connect Zürich with Austria, all with stops in Sargans and Buchs. The section from Rorschach to St. Margrethen is served four times a day by a EuroCity service on the Zürich–Munich route.
  Rheintal Express (REX) services now run between Chur and St. Gallen every hour. Between Sargans and Rorschach, line S4 St Gallen S-Bahn services operated by Südostbahn also run every hour on a circular route with stops at all stations. Between Altstätten and St. Gallen the line is served by lines S1 and S2 of the S-Bahn. Overall, this results in two trains per hour between St. Gallen and Altstätten and three between Heerbrugg and St. Gallen. On the Sargans–Chur section the good connections from Zürich on two InterCity services and a RegioExpress are supplemented by the S12 (Sargans–Chur) service.
caption: Stadler FLIRT sets of the Südostbahn are operated on the circular line S4
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