Küsnacht is a
railway station
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
in
Switzerland
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, situated near to the banks of
Lake Zurich
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in the municipality of
Küsnacht
Küsnacht () is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
History
Küsnacht is first mentioned in 1188 as ''de Cussenacho''.
Earliest findings of settlement date back to the Stone Age. There are also findi ...
in the
canton of
Zurich
Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...
(abbreviated to ZH). The station is on the
Lake Zurich right bank railway line.
It is located within
fare zone 140 of the
Zürcher Verkehrsverbund
The Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), is the largest public transportation network in Switzerland. It covers the canton of Zurich and adjacent areas. All modes of public transportation (rail, light rail, bus, trolleybus, lake passenger liner, fun ...
(ZVV).
It is one of four railway stations in the municipality of Küsnacht, the other being , located on the same line, and and , both located on the
Forch Railway line.
Services
The station is served by the following
S-Bahn
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trains:
*
Zurich S-Bahn
The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, ...
:
**
**
**
*
Nighttime S-Bahn (only during weekends):
** : hourly service between and (via )
Gallery
See also
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Rail transport in Switzerland
Rail transport in Switzerland is noteworthy for the density of its network, its coordination between services, its integration with other modes of transport, timeliness and a thriving domestic and trans-Alps, Alp freight system. It is made nece ...
References
External links
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Railway stations in the canton of Zürich
Swiss Federal Railways stations
Küsnacht
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