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Winterthur–Romanshorn Railway
The Winterthur–Romanshorn railway, also known in German as the ''Thurtallinie'' ("Thur valley line"), is a Swiss railway line and was built as part of the railway between Zürich and Lake Constance (Bodensee). It connects Winterthur with Romanshorn, where it formerly connected to train ferries over Lake Constance. It is the fourth oldest internal railway in Switzerland. Its construction was to be funded by the Zürich-Lake Constance Railway (''Zürich-Bodenseebahn''), but during the construction the company was merged with the Swiss Northern Railway (''Schweizerische Nordbahn'') to form the Swiss Northeastern Railway (''Schweizerische Nordostbahn'', NOB). The Winterthur–Romanshorn railway was opened on 16 May 1855 and the line from Winterthur to Oerlikon was opened on 27 December 1855. Zürich was reached on 26 June 1856 and the two existing NOB lines were connected. The Lake Constance train ferries on the Romanshorn–Friedrichshafen and Romanshorn–Lindau ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winterthur Railway Station
Winterthur railway station (german: Bahnhof Winterthur) is the principal railway station of Winterthur, in the Swiss canton of Zürich. The station is listed on the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance. Winterthur is Switzerland's fifth busiest station, and is a major node between Switzerland's largest railway nucleus in Zürich and places in Eastern Switzerland (such as St. Gallen and Schaffhausen), as well as Germany (Munich), and Austria (Vorarlberg). The station is served by trains on Zürich's suburban S-Bahn network, as well as by regional and intercity trains, with all through passenger trains making a stop. It is directly linked to Zürich Flughafen – Zurich Airport's railway station – within 15 minutes travelling time seven times per hour. Zürich Hauptbahnhof can be reached with up to 16 direct connections per hour, the fastest of which takes 22 minutes. The station has five standard-gauge platforms serving nine tracks and is the central no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wil SG
Wil () is the capital of the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Wil is the third largest city in the Canton of St. Gallen, after the city of St. Gallen and Rapperswil-Jona, a twin city that merged in 2006. The municipality of Bronschhofen merged into Wil on 1 January 2013. After the merger the Community Identification Number changed from 3425 to 3427.Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office accessed 2 January 2013 In 1984, Wil was awarded the for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage. Geogra ...
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Lake Constance
Lake Constance (german: Bodensee, ) refers to three Body of water, bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Seerhein, Lake Rhine (''Seerhein''). These waterbodies lie within the Lake Constance Basin () in the Alpine Foreland through which the Rhine flows. The lake is situated where Germany, Switzerland, and Austria meet. Its shorelines lie in the German states of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, the Swiss cantons of Canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Canton of Thurgau, Thurgau, and Canton of Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, and the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The actual location of the border Lake_Constance#International_borders, is disputed. The Alpine Rhine forms in its original course the Austro-Swiss border and flows into the lake from the south. The High Rhine flows westbound out of the lake and forms (with the exception of the Canton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodensee–Toggenburg Railway
The Bodensee–Toggenburg railway is a mainly single-track standard-gauge line connecting on Lake Constance (''Bodensee'' in German) and the Toggenburg region in Eastern Switzerland. It was built by the Bodensee-Toggenburg-Bahn (BT), a former railway company, which existed from 1910 until its merger with the "old" Südostbahn (SOB) to form the "new" Südostbahn (SOB) on 1 January 2001. Today, the line together with the Wattwil–Ebnat-Kappel section forms the eastern network of the Südostbahn. The BT consisted of the standard gauge adhesion railway from Romanshorn to St. Gallen St. Fiden (19.13 km) opened on 3 October 1910 and the standard gauge adhesion line from to Wattwil (31.74 km), as well as the line from Ebnat-Kappel to Nesslau-Neu St. Johann (7.85 km) opened on 1 October 1912. The connecting sections of line from St. Gallen St. Fiden to St. Gallen HB and from Wattwil to Ebnat-Kappel were controlled by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Südostbahn
The Südostbahn (German, literally meaning "South-Eastern Railway") – commonly abbreviated to SOB – is a Swiss adhesion railway company, and a network in Central and Eastern Switzerland. It resulted from the merger of the original SOB with the Bodensee–Toggenburg railway (BT) at the end of 2001. The Schweizerische Südostbahn AG (Swiss South-Eastern Railway SA) is a small private railway jointly owned by the cantonal and federal governments as an Aktiengesellschaft (AG). Network The rail network of the Südostbahn (SOB) consists of that formerly owned by BT in northeast Switzerland (between Lake Constance and Toggenburg): * Romanshorn– St. Gallen St. Fiden line, * St. Gallen–Herisau–Degersheim–Wattwil line, and * (Wattwil–)Ebnat-Kappel–Krummenau– Nesslau-Neu Sankt Johann line, and that previously owned by the original SOB located predominantly in Central Switzerland: * Rapperswil–Pfäffikon SZ line, * Pfäffikon S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Line
The Lake Line at www.sbb.ch. Accessed on 13 Jan 2013. (german: Seelinie), as it is referred to by the Swiss Federal Railways, SBB in English, is the Switzerland, Swiss railway line running from Rorschach, St. Gallen, Rorschach via Romanshorn, Kreuzlingen, Steckborn and Stein am Rhein to Schaffhausen and forms the Swiss section of the ring railway around Lake Constance. History On 15 October 1869 the section of line from Romanshorn to Rorschach was opened. Not quite two years later, on 1 July 1871, it was followed by the Romanshorn–Konstanz line. During its early years the railway belonged to the Swiss Northeastern Railway, the NOB, which was transferred in 1902 into the Swiss Federal Railways, SBB. In 1996, the line was taken over by ''Mittelthurgaubahn'' fo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulgen–Gossau Railway
The Sulgen–Gossau railway (SG) is a standard gauge railway in the Swiss cantons of St. Gallen and Thurgau, which was built by the ''Bischofszellerbahn'' (Bischofszell Railway) and the railway is also known by that name. Its , standard gauge line has belonged to the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) since 1902. History After an evaluation of routes, the Bischofszell Railway decided on a route from Gossau via Bischofszell to Sulgen in Thurgau. The other possible route was Uzwil–Bischofszell–Amriswil. Since in the second option would not have benefitted the town of St. Gallen and would have lost significant potential traffic, the Bischofszell Railway decided on the Gossau–Sulgen route. It was the first line between St. Gallen and the Thur valley. The railway line was leased in 1875 by the Swiss Northeastern Railway (''Schweizerische Nordostbahn''; NOB) and passed into its ownership on 31 July 1885. The railway took over operations on the Sulgen–Bischofszell section on 1 Feb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weinfelden Railway Station
Weinfelden railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Thurgau and the municipality of Weinfelden. The station is located on the Winterthur–Romanshorn railway line, at its junctions with the Mittelthurgau-Bahn lines to Wil and Konstanz. Weinfelden station is an intermediate stop on long-distance services from Brig to Romanshorn and Lucerne to Konstanz. It is also the terminus of Zürich S-Bahn services S24 and S30, together with services of the St. Gallen S-Bahn. Services the following services stop at Weinfelden: * InterCity / InterRegio: half-hourly service to Zürich Hauptbahnhof; hourly service to , , , and ; service every two hours to and . * Zürich S-Bahn **: peak-hour service between Zürich main station , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wil–Kreuzlingen Railway
The Wil–Kreuzlingen railway is a largely single-track standard-gauge line in northeastern Switzerland. It was built by the Mittelthurgaubahn; ''MThB''), which was a Swiss private railway based in Weinfelden. It was liquidated in 2003, including its subsidiary ''Lokoop'', and its activities and the infrastructure it owned were mainly taken over by a Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) subsidiary, Thurbo, which was originally formed as a joint venture between the MThB and the SBB. History After an initiative committee for the construction of the Mittel-Thurgau-Bahn (Central Thurgau Railway; MThB) was established in Kreuzlingen on 11 August 1890, the committee made its first contacts with the Westdeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (West German Railway Company; WeEG) based in Cologne in 1899. An application for a concession for a standard-gauge railway, which had been prepared by engineer Jakob Ehrensperger from Winterthur, was submitted to the Federal Council in 1901. The Swiss Federal A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Märstetten Railway Station
Märstetten railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Thurgau and the municipality of Märstetten. The station is located on the Winterthur–Romanshorn railway line. It is an intermediate stop on Zurich S-Bahn services S24 and S30 S30 may refer to: Automobiles * Aeolus S30, a Chinese sedan * Jinbei S30, a Chinese SUV * Nissan S30, a Japanese sport car * Toyota Crown (S30), a Japanese sedan Aviation * Blériot-SPAD S.30, a French sport aircraft * Lebanon State Airport, .... References External links * Railway stations in the canton of Thurgau Swiss Federal Railways stations {{switzerland-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Müllheim-Wigoltingen Railway Station
Müllheim-Wigoltingen railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. It lies on the border between the municipality of Wigoltingen and the municipality of Müllheim. The station is located on the Winterthur–Romanshorn railway line. It is an intermediate stop on Zurich S-Bahn services S24 and S30 S30 may refer to: Automobiles * Aeolus S30, a Chinese sedan * Jinbei S30, a Chinese SUV * Nissan S30, a Japanese sport car * Toyota Crown (S30), a Japanese sedan Aviation * Blériot-SPAD S.30, a French sport aircraft * Lebanon State Airport, .... References External links * Railway stations in the canton of Thurgau Swiss Federal Railways stations {{switzerland-railstation-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thur (Rhine)
Thur is a river in north-eastern Switzerland. Its source is near the mountain Säntis in the south-east of the canton of St. Gallen. In this canton it flows through the Toggenburg region and the town Wil. After Wil it flows through the canton of Thurgau and its capital Frauenfeld. The final of the Thur are in the canton of Zürich. It flows into the river Rhine on the border with Germany, south of Schaffhausen Schaffhausen (; gsw, Schafuuse; french: Schaffhouse; it, Sciaffusa; rm, Schaffusa; en, Shaffhouse) is a list of towns in Switzerland, town with historic roots, a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in northern Switzerland, and the .... Rivers of Switzerland Rivers of the canton of St. Gallen {{Switzerland-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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