Zürich Oerlikon railway station
Zürich Oerlikon railway station (German: Bahnhof Zürich Oerlikon) is a railway station located at Oerlikon in the city of Zurich, 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.
Oerlikon station lies close nearby Hallenstadion and "Messe Zürich" in the centre of Oerliken, a suburb of Zürich that was once an independent town, and still remains an important business and retail centre. The 32 storey Swissôtel Zürich lies immediately opposite the front of the station.
History
On 27 December 1855 the line from Oerlikon to Winterthur via Wallisellen was established by the Schweizerische Nordostbahn (NOB). The following year this was extendend to Zürich Hauptbahnhof through the Wipkingen Tunnel. A temporary 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 the Käferberg Tunnel was opened, providing a second route to Hauptbahnhof. In October 1979 the line from Oerlikon to Zürich Airport and on to rejoin the main line to Winterthur at Bassersdorf (the Flughafenlinie) opened. In June 2014, the Weinberg Tunnel opened, providing a third route to Hauptbahnhof.
Operation
The station is an important and busy one. It is served by lines S2, S5, S6, S7, S8, S14, S16 and S24 of the Zurich S-Bahn. It is also called at by trains on the InterRegio (IR) lines from Zürich Airport to Basel SBB and Zürich Airport to Luzern, and the RegioExpress (RE) line from Zürich to Schaffhausen.[2]
Train connections to Oerlikon from Zürich Hauptbahnhof are very frequent, and the ride takes only a few minutes. There are no fewer than three different routes from Oerlikon to Hauptbahnhof, each of which tunnels through the intermediate ridge. The most recent, the Weinberg Tunnel, runs into the Hauptbahnhof's low level platforms from the east. The other two, the Wipkingen Tunnel and the Käferberg Tunnel, both connect to the Hauptbahnhof's western approaches. All three tunnels emerge from adjacent portals to the south of Oerlikon station. All trains stopping at Oerlikon also serve Hauptbahnhof, with the single exception of the hourly IR service to Basel, providing, for most of the day, 18 trains per hour (tph).[2][3]
Other stations served (with typical daytime frequencies) include Baden (IR/S6; 2 tph), Basel (IR; 1 tph), Brugg (IR; 1 tph), Effretikon (S7/S8/S16; 6 tph), Enge (S2/S8/S24; 6 tph), Hardbrücke (S5/S6/S7/S16; 8 tph), Herrliberg-Feldmeilen (S6/S16; 4 tph), Hinwil (S14; 2 tph), Kloten (S7; 2 tph), Lucerne (IR; 1 tph), Niederweningen (S5; 1 tph), Pfäffikon SZ (S2/S5/S8; 6 tph), Rafz (S5; 1 tph), Rapperswil (S5/S7; 4 tph), Stadelhofen (S5/S6/S7/S16; 8 tph), Schaffhausen (RE/S16; 2 tph), Thalwil (IR/S2/S8/S24; 7 tph), Uetikon (S6; 2 tph), Uster (S5/S14; 4 tph), Wallisellen (S8/S14; 4 tph), Wettingen (S6; 2 tph), Wetzikon (S5/S14; 4 tph), Winterthur (S7/S8/S16; 5 tph), Wipkingen (S24; 2 tph), Ziegelbrücke (S2; 2 tph), Zug (IR/S24; 3 tph), and Zürich Airport (IR/S2/S16; 6 tph).[2][3]
Trams of both the Zürich 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 Zürich and the Glatt Valley between Oerlikon and Zürich Airport.[4]
Future development
The station's infrastructure, including both bus terminals and two additional platforms and tracks are being rebuilt, to complement the opening of the Weinberg tunnel.[5][6]
Cultural heritage
The building is listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as a Class B object of regional importance.[7]
Gallery
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View of the north-eastern end of Oerlikon railway station, with Wallisellen line diverging to right
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Oerlikon and its train station on an aerial photography by Walter Mittelholzer (~1920)
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Track diagram of the station
References
- ↑ Bahnhof Oerlikon Entwicklungskonzept und Ausbauvorhaben 2010 – 2015
- 1 2 3 "S-Bahn trains, buses and boats" (PDF). ZVV. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-07-24. Retrieved 2015-07-24.
- 1 2 "Departure Bahnhof Zürich Oerlikon" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. 2014-12-14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-07-28. Retrieved 2015-07-28.
- ↑ "Zurich City Map" (PDF). ZVV. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2015-07-23.
- ↑ Quartierverein Oerlikon: Komplettumbau am Bahnhof Oerlikon (09.03.26)
- ↑ Schweizerische Bundesbahn: Durchmesserlinie Altstetten–Zürich HB–Oerlikon
- ↑ "B-Objekte KGS-Inventar" (PDF). Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft, Amt für Bevölkerungsschutz. 2015-02-18. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
Literature
- Werner Stutz: Bahnhöfe der Schweiz von den Anfängen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg. Orell Füssli, Zürich 1983. ISBN 3-280-01405-0.
External links
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- Station data from SBB web site
- Station plan from SBB web site