Winterthur Wülflingen railway station

Winterthur Wülflingen

View of the station, 2007.
Location Wydenweg 13
8408 Winterthur
Winterthur, Zürich
Switzerland
Coordinates 47°30′23″N 08°40′51″E / 47.50639°N 8.68083°E / 47.50639; 8.68083Coordinates: 47°30′23″N 08°40′51″E / 47.50639°N 8.68083°E / 47.50639; 8.68083
Elevation 452 m above the sea
Owned by Swiss Federal Railways
Operated by THURBO
Line(s) Winterthur–Bülach–Koblenz (761)
Platforms 2
Connections Winterthur buses
History
Opened 1 August 1876 (1876-08-01)
Rebuilt 1908
Electrified 15 July 1945 (1945-07-15)
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station
Winterthur Töss   Zurich S-Bahn
S41 service
   Pfungen-Neftenbach
Location
Winterthur Wülflingen
Location within Switzerland

Winterthur Wülflingen railway station (German: Bahnhof Winterthur Wülflingen) is a railway station that serves Wülflingen, which is district number 6 in Winterthur, a city in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It forms part of the Winterthur–Bülach–Koblenz railway.[1][2]

The station's architectural features, consisting of a station building and a goods shed, are inscribed on the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance, as a typical station from the turn of the century.[3]

Location

The station is situated to the southeast of the Wülflingen district, and separated from the district's centre by the A1/A4 motorway.

History

At the time of their planning and construction, the railway line and station were outside the district limits, and it was anticipated that they would serve primarily freight traffic to and from the spinning factory. For that reason, work began in 1875 on the construction of a simple timber station building.[4] This building, a freight shed with integrated station office, was ready for occupation in time for the opening of the Winterthur–Bülach–Koblenz railway.

Due to industrialization and a consequential increase in the residential population, the town gradually expanded enough to reach the station, making a proper station building necessary. That is why the present station building, which, at the time, was promoted in Wülflingen in exaggerated fashion with a direct "Wülflingen–Paris" rail link,[5] was built in 1908.[4]

The original building, located west of the 1908 station building, has remained to this day as a goods shed.

Facilities

Winterthur Wülflingen has two platform tracks. The station itself is now unstaffed, and a restaurant is housed in the station building. Opposite the station is the Niderfeld industrial zone, which is connected to the railway tracks.

Services

Zürich S-Bahn

Although the station used to offer continuous passenger connections from Winterthur to Basel, it is now served by only one line of the Zürich S-Bahn, operated by THURBO:

On weekends, Wülflingen is served by one train pair of the THURBO «Nightliner», which runs as far as Bülach.

Local transport

One Stadtbus Winterthur bus line calls at Wülflingen.

Line Route
7 HB – Schlosstal – Bhf. Wülflingen

As of the December 2010 timetable change, there was also an extra weekend night bus line, which ran at similar intervals to the daytime service.

See also

References

  1. ↑ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  3. ↑ "Schweizerisches Inventar der Kulturgüter von nationaler Bedeutung - Zürich" [Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance - Zurich] (PDF) (in German). Swiss Confederation. 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
  4. 1 2 Inventar der neueren Schweizerischen Architektur vol 10 page 186 (German)
  5. ↑ "Eggn' Spoon: Paris-Wülflingen" (in German). Eggn' Spoon. 2008. Retrieved 2011-11-20. External link in |publisher= (help)

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