The Bodensee Toggenburg Bahn was a small 'private' (i.e. mainly financed by the cantonal rather than the federal governments) railway which operated between Romanshorn on the Bodensee (in English, Lake Constance) via St. Gallen, Herisau, Degersheim, Wattwil, and Ebnat-Kappel to Nesslau-Neu St. Johann in northeast Switzerland, the total journey time taking some 76 minutes.
At the end of 2001 the BT merged with the Schweizerische Suedostbahn (Swiss South Eastern Railway) to form the 'new' SOB, which has a total of 119 km of route.
External link
SuedOstBahn site (http://www.suedostbahn.ch/) (in German)
The territory was purchased (1468) from the confederation by the abbot of St. Gall.
In 1712 the quarrels between the abbot and the Protestant communities of the Toggenburg served as a pretext for the War of the Toggenburg, between the Catholic and the Protestant cantons of the Swiss Confederation.
Toggenburg is the name given to the upper valley of the river Thur, in the Swiss Canton of St. Gallen.
The BodenseeToggenburgBahn was a small 'private' (i.e.
mainly financed by the cantonal rather than the federal governments) railway which operated between Romanshorn on the Bodensee (in English, Lake Constance) via St.
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