Winterthur Seen railway station explained

Style:Swiss Federal Railways
Winterthur Seen
Address:Kanzleistrasse 60
8405 Winterthur
Winterthur, Zürich
Country:Switzerland
Coordinates:47.4875°N 8.7667°W
Line:Tösstalbahn
Winterthur–Wil
Connections:Winterthur buses
Platform:2
Owned:SBB-CFF-FFS
Operator:SBB-CFF-FFS
THURBO
Map Type:Switzerland

Winterthur Seen railway station (German: Bahnhof Winterthur Seen) is a railway station that serves Seen, which is district number 3 in Winterthur, a city in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It forms part of the Tösstalbahn section between Winterthur Grüze and Bauma.[1] [2]

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.

Tracks

Winterthur Seen has two platform tracks.

Services

Zürich S-Bahn

The station is served by the following Zürich S-Bahn lines:

Local transport

Stadtbus Winterthur serves the station with one Winterthur trolleybus line and one other bus line. Both lines terminate there.

LineRoute
bgcolor=#ED2023 2Wülflingen – Hauptbahnhof – Seen
bgcolor=#F7931D 9Seen – Klösterli Iberg – Eidberg

Line 3 (Rosenberg – Hauptbahnhof – Oberseen) has a bus stop about 200m (700feet) from the station.

See also

External links

This article is based upon a translation of the German language version as at November 2011.

Notes and References

  1. Swiss Confederation . map.geo.admin.ch . 2011-12-02.
  2. Book: Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz . 2012 . Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH . 978-3-89494-130-7 . 12–13.