| Zürich Oerlikon | |
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Zürich Oerlikon (August 2009) |
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| Address | Hofwiesenstrasse 369, 8050 Zürich |
| Levels | 1 |
| Platforms | 6 |
| Tracks | 6 |
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| Opened | 1855 |
| Rebuilt | 1912 |
| Owned by | SBB-CFF-FFS |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers () | 110,000 daily [1] |
Zürich Oerlikon is a railway station located at Oerlikon in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is a major nodal point and junction for both the Zurich S-Bahn network and the Swiss rail network as a whole. Trains on 7 lines of the S-Bahn serve the station, as do frequent inter-regional trains. Inter-city passenger and freight traffic also passes through the station without stopping.
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Oerlikon station lies close nearby Hallenstadion and "Messe Zürich" in the centre of Oerliken, a suburb of Zurich that was once an independent town, and still remains an important business and retail centre.
The station is an important and busy one. It is served by lines S2, S5, S6, S7, S8, S14 and S16 of the Zurich S-Bahn. In addition, it is an important railway station on the InterRegio lines Zürich Airport-Basel SBB and Zürich Airport-Luzern, and partially on the lines to the western part of Switzerland. Train connections to Oerlikon from Zürich Hauptbahnhof are very frequent, and the ride takes only a few minutes.
Trams of both the Zurich tramway system and the Glattalbahn operate from stops adjacent to the station, as do buses of both the Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich and Glattalbus, connecting the station to nearby areas of Zurich and the Glatt Valley between Oerlikon and Zurich Airport.
On December 27, 1855, the line Oerlikon–Wallisellen–Winterthur was established by the Schweizerische Nordostbahn (NOB). A temporarly wooden train station was built by A. Beckh and Jakob Friedrich Wanner, replaced by a stone building in 1865. The building as it exists today, was renewed in 1912. In June 1969 Käferberglinie (railway tunnell) was established, in October 1979 the line Oerlikon–Airport–Bassersdorf (Flughafenlinie). Its infrastructure among them both bus terminals and additional two tracks will be rebuilt beginning in mid 2010.[2] Durchmesserlinie is scheculed for 2013.[3]
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