Zürich Wipkingen railway station () is a

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in the Wipkingen quarter of the

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city of

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, within fare zone 110 of the

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(ZVV). It is situated on the Zürich–Winterthur railway line, which was built by the

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(). The route towards leads over the Wipkingen

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(''Wipkinger Viadukt''). Immediately at the northern end of the station, the ''

Wipkingen Tunnel The Wipkingen Tunnel () is a railway tunnel in the Swiss city of Zürich. The tunnel runs from the northern end of Wipkingen station to a portal to the south of Oerlikon station. It carries twin standard gauge () tracks electrified at 15 k V A ...

'' starts and connects it to Zürich Oerlikon.

Service

Wipkingen station is served only by

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-style regional trains. As of December 2022, the station is served half-hourly by line S24 of the

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. *

History

The station lies on the oldest of several rail routes from the city center to the northern part of Zürich. Although the Zürich–Winterthur railway line opened in 1856, Wipkingen did not get its own railway station before 2 October 1932. Between 1908 and 1968, a

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( line 4) connected ''Escher-Wyss Platz'' with ''Röschlibachplatz'' adjacent to Wipkingen station. Urban transport has since been replaced by

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services (lines 33 and 46). Prior to the opening of the ''

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'' on 14 June 2014, this station was served by Zürich S-Bahn lines S2, S8 and S14. These lines now run via the new tunnel route, and the half-hourly S24 was extended from Hauptbahnhof further north in order to ensure that Wipkingen did not lose rail service.

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services to/from destinations to the north or northeast that use the surface tracks of (most with Zürich HB as their

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) still use this line, but they do not call at Wipkingen station. The station was refurbished in 2024. Its

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was replaced by two

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s. During the construction phase, the entire section between Zürich HB and Wipkingen was out of service between 10 December 2023 and 14 December 2024. During this time, trains of S24 service operated only between Wipkingen and Thayngen/Weinfelden and between Zürich HB and Zug.

Gallery

File:Zürich Wipkingen railway station2.jpg, Tracks and

s of the refurbished station in 2025 File:NordbrWipkingenI.jpg, View from the former

towards the portal of the ''

''. File:StatioWipkingenI.jpg, View from the former island platform towards South. File:StatioWipkingenII.jpg, Track 1 of the station and former island platform. File:Zuerich Nordbruecke.jpg, IC train of

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emerging from the Wipkingen tunnel File:SBB Historic - F 122 01246 003 - Zuerich Wipkingen Stationsgebaeude Bahnseite.jpg, Wipkingen station building. File:All roads heading to Zürich - panoramio.jpg, Zürich S-Bahn

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on the ''Wipkinger Viadukt'' (the closed line to was repurposed as a pedestrian/bicycle route). File:Aussersihler Viadukt - 2013-12-17 - Weihnächtliche Beleuchtung - Bild 6.JPG, Illuminated ''Wipkinger Viadukt'' with shops (''Im Viadukt'').

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External links

* * Swiss Federal Railways stations

Wipkingen Wipkingen is a quarter in the district 10 in Zürich. It was formerly a municipality of its own, having been incorporated into Zürich in 1893. The quarter has a population of 15,446 distributed on an area of 2.11 km². Zentrum für M ...

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