Winterthur Seen railway station

Winterthur Seen
Location Kanzleistrasse 60
8405 Winterthur
Winterthur, Zürich
Switzerland
Coordinates 47°29′15″N 8°46′00″E / 47.48750°N 8.76667°E / 47.48750; 8.76667Coordinates: 47°29′15″N 8°46′00″E / 47.48750°N 8.76667°E / 47.48750; 8.76667
Elevation 468 m above the sea
Owned by SBB-CFF-FFS
Operated by SBB-CFF-FFS
THURBO
Line(s) Tösstalbahn
Winterthur–Wil
Platforms 2
Connections Winterthur buses
History
Opened 4 May 1875 (1875-05-04)
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station
Winterthur Grüze   Zurich S-Bahn
S12 Winterthur Seen service
   Terminus
Winterthur Grüze   Zurich S-Bahn
S26 service
   Sennhof-Kyburg
Location
Winterthur Seen
Location within Switzerland

Winterthur Seen railway station (German: Bahnhof Winterthur Seen) is a railway station that serves Seen, which is district number 3 in Winterthur, a city in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It forms part of the Tösstalbahn section between Winterthur Grüze and Bauma.[1][2]

Location

Situated at the north eastern edge of central Seen, the station borders the quarter of Sonnenberg, on the other side of the tracks.

History

The station was opened on 4 May 1875, together with the rest of the first section of the Tösstalbahn, between Grüze and Bauma. One year later, the line was extended to Wald.

From 1882, the operating railway company also had a line of its own to Winterthur Hauptbahnhof.

On 10 June 1918, the station and the rest of the line were nationalized, and came under the control of the SBB-CFF-FFS.

Tracks

Winterthur Seen has two platform tracks.

Services

Zürich S-Bahn

The station is served by the following Zürich S-Bahn lines:

Local transport

Stadtbus Winterthur serves the station with one Winterthur trolleybus line and one other bus line. Both lines terminate there.

Line Route
2 Wülflingen – Hauptbahnhof – Seen
9 Seen – Klösterli Iberg – Eidberg

Line 6 (Rosenberg – Hauptbahnhof – Oberseen) has a bus stop about 200 m (660 ft) from the station.

See also

References

  1. ↑ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

External links

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