Zermatt
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| Japanese Name | ツェルマット | ||||
| Race | Dragon | ||||
| Nationality | File:Fteraburke.png Fteraburke | ||||
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Profile
Zermatt is a dragonkin of Fteraburke, first appearing in Story Arc 4 Main Scenario 8, she is a long acquaintance of Divine Child Attyria and was a dragon knight who fought Phantom Mist for many years.
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The Brig-Visp-Zermatt Railway (BVZ) - officially known as the BVZ Zermatt Railway from 1991 to 2002 - is a meter-gauge narrow-gauge railway in the Swiss canton of Valais. Opened in 1891 as the Visp-Zermatt Railway (VZ), it was merged with the Furka-Oberalp Railway (FO) on January 1, 2003 to form the Matterhorn-Gotthard Railway (MGB). The 44-kilometer-long railway line is part of the route of the Glacier Express to St. Moritz and connects the car-free holiday resort of Zermatt with the communities of Visp and Brig-Glis in the Rhone Valley.
Zermatt railway station is a metre gauge railway station serving the car-free mountaineering and ski resort of Zermatt, in the Canton of Valais, Switzerland. It is the southern terminus of the BVZ Zermatt-Bahn (BVZ), which connects Zermatt with standard gauge lines at Visp (served by SBB-CFF-FFS) and Brig (served by SBB-CFF-FFS and BLS AG). Since 1 January 2003, the BVZ has been owned and operated by the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB), following a merger between the BVZ and the Furka Oberalp Bahn (FO). The station is across the street from Zermatt GGB railway station, the valley terminus of the Gornergrat Railway.
The facade of Zermatt station is renovated in the 1980s. In order to protect passengers and rolling stock from avalanches, a massive concrete roof was built by 1989, which spans the station's six tracks. Track 1, located on the western edge of the station, has an inspection pit and is not open to the public; it is mainly used for servicing commuter trains. Track 2 was set up for commuter traffic to Täsch and, based on the Spanish solution, has platforms on both sides to enable passengers to change quickly. Tracks 3 to 5 are used for regular train traffic to Brig and each have one platform. Track 6 is mainly intended for general cargo traffic and ends at the baggage hall of the station building. It is shorter than the other tracks, but also has a shared platform with track 5.
The current station building was built in the early 1990s in the regional wooden style. Its proportions are reminiscent of the former station building from 1891 and it is divided into three areas. The southern part includes the station restaurant, while the central part of the building houses the ticket counters and baggage claim. To the north is the concrete baggage hall. The Gornergrat Railway station is on the opposite side of the street and has a connecting track to the MGB station to handle goods transport and vehicle transfers.
To the north of the station hall are extensive tracks that are mainly used for freight traffic and for parking vehicles. After the avalanche in 1966, the station entrance was covered with a massive avalanche gallery. The so-called Schafgrabengalerie has two tracks and also allows vehicles to be parked safely. To the east of this there are open sidings that can only be used to a limited extent in winter due to the danger outlined above. Additionally, due to Zermatt's car-free status, the MGB has a frequent special shuttle train service between Zermatt and nearby Täsch, where people travelling to and from Zermatt by combustion-engine vehicles are required to park. For the better part of most days, this service operates at 20-minute intervals; it takes 12 minutes. Wikipedia
