Winterthur Seen railway station

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]

Winterthur Seen
Location	Kanzleistrasse 60 8405 Winterthur Winterthur, Zürich Switzerland
Coordinates	47°29′15″N 8°46′00″E
Elevation	468 m above the sea
Owned by	SBB-CFF-FFS
Operated by	SBB-CFF-FFS THURBO
Line(s)	Tösstalbahn Winterthur–Wil
Platforms	2
Connections	Winterthur buses
History
Opened	4 May 1875 (1875-05-04)
Services
Preceding station Zürich S-Bahn Following station Winterthur Grüze towards Aarau S11 Sennhof-Kyburg towards Wila Winterthur Grüze towards Winterthur S26 Sennhof-Kyburg towards Rüti ZH
Location
Winterthur Seen Location within Switzerland

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:

• S11 (Aarau – Lenzburg –) Dietikon – Zürich HB – Zürich Stettbach – Winterthur – Seuzach / Sennhof-Kyburg (– Wila)
  Operates non stop between Stettbach and Winterthur; the lines to Seuzach and Sennhof-Kybourg are operated alternately at hourly intervals; supplementary trains to Wila.
• S26 Winterthur – Bauma (– Rüti ZH)
  Operates only on weekends to Rapperswil.

Local transport

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

Line	Route
2	Wülflingen – Hauptbahnhof – Seen
9	Seen – Klösterli Iberg – Eidberg

Line 6 (Rosenberg – Hauptbahnhof – Oberseen) has a bus stop about 200 m (660 ft) from the station.

See also

• History of rail transport in Switzerland
• Rail transport in Switzerland

References

1. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

External links

• SBB-CFF-FFS website (Swiss rail operator)

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