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Wil railway station (German: Bahnhof Wil), or Wil SG railway station, is a railway station in Wil, in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It sits at the junction of three standard-gauge railway lines: Wil–Kreuzlingen, St. Gallen–Winterthur, and Wil–Ebnat-Kappel. In addition, the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge Frauenfeld–Wil line (operated by Appenzell Railways since 2021) terminates in the station's forecourt.^[1]

Layout

The station has two island platforms and two side platforms on the St. Gallen–Winterthur line, with tracks (Gleis) numbered 1–6. These tracks are used by InterCity (IC), InterRegio (IR) and most S-Bahn services. The Frauenfeld–Wil railway (S15) departs from the station's forecourt (Bahnhofplatz) north of the station building, where two platforms and tracks (Gleis 11/12) exist.^[4]

PostAuto Schweiz, WilMobil [de] and RegioBus [de] bus lines depart from the bus station in front of the station building.^[5]^[6]^[7]

As of the December 2023 timetable change, the following services stop at Wil:^[8]

/ : half-hourly service between Zürich HB and St. Gallen and hourly service to Geneva Airport and Chur.
St. Gallen S-Bahn (some services also belong to Bodensee S-Bahn):
- S1: half-hourly service over the St. Gallen–Winterthur line to Schaffhausen (via St. Gallen and Kreuzlingen), supplementing the long-distance services.
- S9: half-hourly service over the Wil–Ebnat-Kappel line to Wattwil.
- S10: half-hourly service over the Wil–Kreuzlingen line to Weinfelden and Romanshorn.
- S15: half-hourly service over the metre-gauge Frauenfeld–Wil line to Frauenfeld via Wängi.
Zürich S-Bahn:
- S12 / S35: half-hourly service over the St. Gallen–Winterthur line to Brugg AG (via Zürich HB) / Winterthur, supplementing the long-distance services.

^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 14. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "OSTWIND-Zonenplan" (in German). Tarifverbund Ostwind [de]. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
^ "Wil station layout" (in German). Swiss Federal Railways. December 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
^ "Wil/Uzwil/Flawil/Gossau" (PDF). PostBus Switzerland. 13 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
^ "Liniennetzplan RegioBus [RegioBus bus network]". Retrieved 2023-12-24.
^ "Bus network Wil and surrounding area" (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 2023-12-24.
^ "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Wil SG" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 13 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.