Bauma railway station (german: Bahnhof Bauma) is a
railway station in the
Swiss
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canton of Zürich
The canton of Zürich (german: Kanton Zürich ; rm, Chantun Turitg; french: Canton de Zurich; it, Canton Zurigo) is a Swiss canton in the northeastern part of the country. With a population of (as of ), it is the most populous canton in the ...
and
municipality of Bauma (
Töss Valley). The station is situated at the junction of the
Tösstal railway line
The Tösstal railway line (Töss Valley Railway, german: Tösstalbahn'' or ''TTB) is a railway in the Swiss canton of Zürich, which serves the communities of the Töss Valley. Passenger service on the line now forms part of the Zürich S-Bahn, b ...
, which is still in full use, and the
Uerikon to Bauma railway (UeBB), which is partly closed and partly used as a
heritage railway
A heritage railway or heritage railroad (US usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) i ...
.
Services
Bauma station is an intermediate station on the
Zürich S-Bahn route
S26, which operates between
Rapperswil and
Winterthur.
*
Zürich S-Bahn : half-hourly service between and
It is also served by buses of the
Verkehrsbetriebe Zürichsee und Oberland
Verkehrsbetriebe Zürichsee und Oberland (VZO) is a public transport operator in the region between Lake Zürich and the Zürcher Oberland to the south-east of the city of Zürich in the canton of Zürich. It operates bus services between the va ...
(VZO) and
Swiss PostBus service (PostAuto).
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Heritage railway
Bauma station is also the terminus of the heritage railway services of the Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland
The Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland (DVZO) is a heritage railway association based in the Swiss canton of Zurich. The association preserves various items of rolling stock, utilising the historic ''lok remise'' or engine shed at Uster statio ...
(DVZO), which operates to Hinwil
Hinwil is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Hinwil (district), Hinwil in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Zurich (canton), Zürich in Switzerland.
History
The village Hinwil from which the later municipality ...
, over the former UeBB, with trains normally hauled by steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomot ...
s. The UeBB line beyond Hinwil, towards Uerikon
Uerikon (also spelled Ürikon) is a village near Rapperswil, Switzerland.
Geography
Uerikon is located on the north bank of the Zürichsee (Lake Zürich) in the Pfannenstiel region and is part of the political municipality of Stäfa. In the ...
, was closed in 1948 and little now remains.
References
External links
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Bauma
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Bauma
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