Sihlbrugg railway station explained

Sihlbrugg
Address:Sihltalstrasse
Horgen, Zürich
Country:Switzerland
Coordinates:47.2385°N 8.577°W
Line:Thalwil–Arth-Goldau line
Sihltal line
Operator:Swiss Federal Railways
Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn
Map Type:Switzerland

Sihlbrugg is a former railway station in the Swiss Canton of Zürich. It was closed permanently in December 2012, and there are no passenger trains scheduled to stop at the station since then. The station was the terminus of the Sihltal line of SZU (ZVV S4) from 1897 to 2006.

Although named after the hamlet of Sihlbrugg, the station is actually located nearly north of the village, in the municipality of Horgen.[1]

The station was a junction point between the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) Thalwil–Arth-Goldau railway, which connects Zug and Zürich Hauptbahnhof, and the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn (SZU) line to Zürich via Sihlwald. The SBB line carried both suburban and longer distance services, and the station used to be served by line S21 of the Zürich S-Bahn. The suburban service on the SZU line between Sihlbrugg and Sihlwald was suspended in 2006, and that stretch of line no longer carries regular passenger services.[2] [3] [4]

In the summer months, the station is served occasionally by the Zürcher Museums-Bahn heritage railway.

Notes and References

  1. Swiss Confederation . map.geo.admin.ch . 2011-12-02.
  2. Web site: Bahn S4/S10 . German . Railway S4/S10 . SZU . 2011-09-01.
  3. Web site: S-Bahn trains, buses and boats . ZVV . 2011-09-14 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110929051510/http://www.zvv.ch/export/sites/default/common-images/content-image-gallery/linien-zonen-pdfs/Liniennetzplan_ganzer_Verbund_2010.pdf . 2011-09-29 .
  4. Book: Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz . 2012 . Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH . 978-3-89494-130-7 . 12–13.