{{About|the lower station of a mountain transport system|the Welsh railway station|Valley railway station}} {{Unreferenced|date=April 2019}}
The '''valley station''' is the lower terminal of an aerial lift, cable car, gondola lift, chairlift, rack railway or ski lift. The valley station is the counterpart of a top station. Cable cars may be boarded at both stations. The valley station is always at a lower elevation than the top station.
Valley stations on a cable car may be ordinary buildings with a docking bay or open steel structures. They are oriented in the direction of the cables. Gondola lifts, by contrast always have horizontally-oriented valley stations.
== Gallery == <gallery> File:Nordkettenbahn-Hungerburg-Station.jpg|Hungerburg station on the ''Nordkettenbahn'', Innsbruck File:Station Iltios.jpg|Chäserrugg cable car, Unterwasser, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland File:CH Furtschellas aerial tram station.jpg|Furtschellas, Engadin, Switzerland File:Finkenberg 2.jpg|Finkenberg gondola lift, Zillertal, Austria File:Sesselbahn Carmenna Sommer.jpg|[Carmenna Chairlift, Arosa, Italy </gallery>
== Examples == {| class="wikitable" !width="150" align="left" |Name !width="150" align="left" |Valley station: !width="200" align="left" |Top station: |- |''Klewenalpbahn'' |Beckenried (420 m) |Klewenalp (1590 m) |- |''Titlisbahn'' |Engelberg (1000 m) |Titlis (3020 m) |- |''Säntisbahn'' |Schwägalp (1345 m) |Säntis (2503 m) |- |''Klein Matterhorn-Bahn'' |Zermatt (1619 m) |Klein Matterhorn (3885 m) |- |''Stockhornbahn'' |Erlenbach (720 m) |Stockhorn (2190 m) |- |''Weisshornbahn'' |Obersee Arosa (1750 m) |Weisshorn (2650 m) |}
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