Hinwil railway station (german: Bahnhof Hinwil) is a railway station in the

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and municipality of Hinwil. The station is situated at the junction of the Effretikon to Hinwil via Wetzikon railway line, which is still in full use, and the Uerikon to Bauma railway (UeBB), which is partly closed and partly used as a

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. Hinwil station is the terminus of Zurich S-Bahn route S14, which operates from Zurich via Uster and Wetzikon. Hinwil station is also the terminus of services of the

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(DVZO), who operate heritage services to

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, over the former UeBB, with trains normally hauled by

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s. The UeBB line in the other direction, 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.

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Hinwil station on Swiss Federal Railway's web site

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 ...

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