Winterthur Seen railway station (german: Bahnhof Winterthur Seen) is a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...
that serves
Seen
Seen may refer to:
* ''Seen'' (album), by Tom Bailey, 2001
* Seen (artist) (born 1961), American graffiti artist
* Seen (Winterthur), a district of Winterthur, Switzerland
* Shin (letter), or ''Seen'' in Arabic, a Semitic abjad
See also
* Xian ...
, which is district number 3 in
Winterthur
, neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell
, twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria ...
, a city in the
canton of
Zurich,
Switzerland. It forms part of the
Tösstalbahn section between
Winterthur Grüze and
Bauma
The bauma (International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines, Mining Machines, Construction Vehicles and Construction Equipment) is the world's largest trade fair in the construction industry. The trade fair, which ...
.
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
Swiss Federal Railways (german: link=no, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, ''SBB''; french: link=no, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, ''CFF''; it, Ferrovie federali svizzere, ''FFS'') is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usuall ...
.
Tracks
Winterthur Seen has two platform tracks.
Services
Zürich S-Bahn
The station is served by the following Zürich S-Bahn lines:
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Local transport
Stadtbus Winterthur serves the station with one
Winterthur trolleybus line and one other bus line. Both lines terminate there.
Line 3 (Rosenberg – Hauptbahnhof – Oberseen) has a bus stop about from the station.
See also
*
History of rail transport in Switzerland
:''This article is part of the history of rail transport by country series.''
The construction and operation of Swiss railways during the 19th century was carried out by private railways. The first internal line was a 16 km line opened from Z ...
*
Rail transport in Switzerland
The Swiss rail network is noteworthy for its density, its coordination between services, its integration with other modes of transport, timeliness and a thriving domestic and trans-alp freight system. This is made necessary by strong regulations ...
References
External links
* {{SBB web
''This article is based upon a translation of the
German language version as at November 2011.''
Railway stations in the canton of Zürich
Swiss Federal Railways stations
Transport in Winterthur
Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1875