Zell (Wiesental) station

Zell (Wiesental) station is the only station in Zell im Wiesental in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the terminus of the Wiese Valley Railway (Wiesentalbahn), which runs from Basel Badischer Bahnhof. Since the summer of 2003, Zell station has been served only by the Basel Regional S-Bahn.

Zell (Wiesental)
Terminus
View of the station area
Location	Bahnhofstr. 17, 79669 Zell im Wiesental, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	47°42′20″N 7°50′57″E
Line(s)	Wiese Valley Railway (km 27.16) (KBS 735) Zell im Wiesental–Todtnau railway (km 0.0) (dismantled)
Tracks	1
Other information
Station code	6988[1]
DS100 code	RZ[2]
IBNR	8006988
Category	6[1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	5 June 1876 (1876-06-05)
Electrified	13 September 1913 (1913-09-13)
Location
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History

After the opening of the line between Basel and Schopfheim in 1862 by the Wiese Valley Railway Company (Wiesenthalbahn-Gesellschaft) from the Badischen Bahnhof (Baden station) in Basel, the line was extended to Zell on 5 June 1876 by the Schopfheim-Zell Railway Company (Schopfheim-Zeller Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). This was followed on 7 July 1889 by a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in) metre gauge railway owned by the Baden railway consortium of Herrmann Bachstein, later called the South German Railway Company (Süddeutsche Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft AG), the Zell im Wiesental–Todtnau railway, known as the Upper Wiese Valley Railway (Obere Wiesentalbahn) and also as the Todtnauerli.

Passenger services on the 19 km-long narrow gauge railway Zell (Wiesental)–Todtnau were abandoned on 25 September 1966 and freight services on the line were closed on 24 September 1967. Shortly afterwards, the tracks were completely dismantled.

On 15 June 2003, traffic on the Basel–Zell line was taken over by SBB GmbH, the German passenger transport subsidiary of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), and integrated into the network of the Basel Regional S-Bahn. Simultaneously, the status of Zell station was downgraded at this time from a station to a halt (Haltepunkt). It is now served only by S-Bahn lines S5 and S6.

Infrastructure

The entrance building of Zell station is now privately owned and is no longer used for railway purposes.

Since the incorporation of the Wiese Valley Railway in the Basel Regional S-Bahn, Zell station has only had a single track with a platform next to the entrance building. The track ends at a buffer at the end of the platform.

Directly in front of the platform next to the entrance building there are two bus stops, which are served by buses to the surrounding communities, including along the former railway line to Todtnau.

Rail services

Zell im Wiesental belongs to the area where public transport is organised by Regio Verkehrsverbund Loerrach (Regional transport association of Lörrach, RVL). The transitional fares of Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz (Tariff association of Northwestern Switzerland, TNW) are honoured in Basel.

Zell is the terminus of line S6 of Basel Regional S-Bahn from Basel SBB station. The S6 service usually runs hourly between Zell and Basel, but during the peak hours services runs at 30-minute intervals. On Sundays and public holidays, services on line S6 runs hourly, but services on line S5, which on other days end at Steinen, continue to Zell hourly. Thus, on the Zell–Lörrach-Stetten section, services run at half-hour intervals on Sundays and public holidays.

Line	Route	Frequency
S5	Weil am Rhein – Lörrach-Stetten – Lörrach Hbf – Steinen (– Schopfheim – Zell (Wiesental))	60-minute frequency (between Steinen and Zell only on Sundays and public holidays)
S6	Basel SBB – Basel Bad Bf – Riehen – Lörrach-Stetten – Lörrach Hbf – Steinen – Schopfheim – Zell (Wiesental)	Every 60 minutes (every 30 minutes during peak hours)

In addition, some local and regional bus services run from Zell station.

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.