page_title: Appenzell Railways
section_title: Operation
hierarchical_section_title: Appenzell Railways / Operation
caption_attribution_description: English: Rail map Appenzeller Bahnen Deutsch: Streckenkarte der Appenzeller Bahnen
context_page_description: Appenzell Railways is a Swiss railway company with headquarters in Herisau. It operates a network of railways in the cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and St. Gallen.
context_section_description: Today, the company operates the following railway lines:
  Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen
  Gossau–Appenzell–Wasserauen
  Altstaetten–Gais
  Rheineck–Walzenhausen
  Rorschach–Heiden
  The St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell, Gossau–Appenzell–Wasserauen and Altstätten–Gais lines form a connected network of 1,000 mm or 3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in metre gauge lines, all electrified at 1500 V DC.  Until 2018, the St. Gallen–Trogen line was also of metre gauge, but ran independently.  
  From 2016 to 2018, the Appenzellerbahnen undertook a large construction project to connect the Appenzell-St. Gallen and St. Gallen-Trogen lines.  The three points of incompatibility were electrification (the St. Gallen-Trogen line was 1000 V DC with a brief stretch at 600 V DC shared with the St. Gallen trolleybus system), different (but physically adjacent) termini in St. Gallen, and maximal grades (the rack railway approach to St. Gallen from Appenzell was too steep for adhesion-based St. Gallen-Trogen rolling stock).  So the new project re-electrified the St. Gallen-Trogen line at 1500 V DC and constructed a new tunnel through St. Gallen.  The old alignment through St. Gallen closed in April 2018, and the system began through-running in October of the same year.    
  The Rheineck–Walzenhausen and Rorschach–Heiden lines are geographically separate from the rest of the network, and are of respectively 1,200 mm (3 ft 11 ¹⁄₄ in) and standard (1,435 mm or 4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in) gauges. The Altstaetten–Gais, Rheineck–Walzenhausen and Rorschach–Heiden lines all have rack railway sections, whilst the Gossau–Appenzell–Wasserauen and Appenzell–St. Gallen–Trogen lines are adhesion only.
  The company also operates a bus service from Teufen, on the St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell line, to Speicher, on the St. Gallen–Trogen line. Night bus services are operated over the routes of the St. Gallen–Gais–Appenzell and St. Gallen–Trogen lines.
caption: Map of Appenzell Railways lines
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