Lichtensteig railway station

Location
	Lichtensteig Location in Switzerland Lichtensteig Location in the canton of St. Gallen

Lichtensteig
Lichtensteig
	The Lichtensteig station building in 2015, with a Südostbahn FLIRT on the Bodensee–Toggenburg railway side
General information
Location	Lichtensteig; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°19′12″N 9°04′59″E / 47.32°N 9.083°E
Elevation	616 m (2,021 ft)
Owned by	Südostbahn
Lines	Bodensee–Toggenburg; Wil–Ebnat-Kappel;
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	3
Train operators	Thurbo; Südostbahn;
Connections
Bus	BLWE [de] bus route 770; PostAuto bus route 772;
Construction
Architect	Salomon Schlatter (1910)
Other information
Fare zone	974 (Tarifverbund Ostwind [de])
Services
Location
Location
	Lichtensteig Location in Switzerland Lichtensteig Location in the canton of St. Gallen

Lichtensteig railway station (German: Bahnhof Lichtensteig) is a railway station in Lichtensteig, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It sits at the junction of the Bodensee–Toggenburg railway and Wil–Ebnat-Kappel railway and is served by local trains only. It is an example of a Keilbahnhof.

Services

As of the December 2023 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Lichtensteig:^[4]

St. Gallen S-Bahn:
- S2 / S4: half-hourly service between Wattwil and Altstätten SG via St. Gallen and hourly service to Rapperswil, Sargans, and Nesslau-Neu St. Johann.
- S9: half-hourly service between Wattwil and Wil.

On weekends (Friday and Saturday nights), there is also a nighttime S-Bahn services (SN72) offered by the Ostwind tariff network [de].^[5]^[6]

The station is also served by bus routes of PostAuto Schweiz and Busbetrieb Lichtensteig–Wattwil–Ebnat-Kappel [de] (BLWE), which depart from the station forecourt.^[2]^[1]

1 2 "Tarife und Fahrplan" [Fares and timetable] (in German). Busbetrieb Lichtensteig–Wattwil–Ebnat-Kappel (BLWE). Retrieved 30 August 2025.
1 2 "Timetable and network". PostBus Switzerland. Retrieved 30 August 2025.
↑ "Zone maps". Tarifverbund Ostwind [de]. Retrieved 23 August 2025.
↑ "St. Gallen - Wattwil - Rapperswil" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2023.
↑ "Ostschweizer Nachtnetz – Noch mehr Zug und Bus am Wochenende" [Eastern Switzerland's nighttime network – More trains and buses on the weekend] (in German). Retrieved 23 August 2025.
↑ "OSTWIND-Nachtnetzplan" [OSTWIND nighttime network map] (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 23 August 2025.