Zug railway station

Zug
Zug
	Entrance to the 2001–2004 station building
Location	Bahnhofplatz; Zug; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°10′25.039″N 8°30′55.044″E
Elevation	425 m (1,394 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Thalwil–Arth-Goldau line; Zug–Lucerne line; Zürich–Zug line;
Platforms	4
Tracks	7
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	Zugerland Verkehrsbetriebe (ZVB) buses
Construction
Architect	Klaus Hornberger
Other information
Fare zone	610 (TVZG/Z-Pass)
History
Opened	1 June 1897
Traffic
Passengers (2018)	46,500 per working day[1]
Rank	15 of 1735
Services
Location
	Zug Location within Switzerland Zug Zug (Canton of Zug)

Zug railway station (German: Bahnhof Zug) serves the municipality of Zug, the capital city of the canton of Zug, Switzerland.

Opened in 1897, the station is owned and operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). It forms the junction between the Zürich–Lucerne railway and the Thalwil–Arth-Goldau railway, which connects with the Gotthard railway.

Every day, some 66,000 people pass through the station.

Location

Zug railway station is situated in Bahnhofplatz, right in the heart of the city centre, a short distance from the shore of Lake Zug.

History

The first railway station in Zug was built in 1863-1864 by the architect Friedrich Jacob Wanner, in what is now the Bundesplatz. It was a terminal station, which could be reached only from the direction of Cham and Knonau. With an additional junction, trains could be turned. In 1897, as the railway lines to Zürich via Thalwil and to Arth-Goldau were opened, the station had to be moved to its current site. The original station building was dismantled and rebuilt in Zürich Wollishofen.

Station building

Between 2001 and 2004, a redesigned station building was constructed at the station, at a cost of some 65 million Swiss francs. The building area is approximately 6500 m².

The redesigned building consists of a basement used for storage, one retail space at street level and another at platform level, and three floors of office space above. A total of 14 retail stores are located in the retail spaces. A new passage to the station entrance was specially built, so that pedestrians can reach the concourse more easily. Additionally, the separate Grafenau and Metalli quarters are now easier to reach. For the cyclists, new shelters were built. The newly created Bahnhofsplatz serves as a bus turning area. There are also internet connections, via wireless LAN, at certain locations within the station.

From the onset of dusk until 23:00 hours, the station building is illuminated by a light installation by artist James Turrell. For that purpose, the southern glass facade is equipped with fluorescent tubes, which are mounted so that the colors red, green and blue and resulting mixed colors can be created. As the control system of the light elements can suffer technical problems during long-lasting cold weather, the installation is shut down in such weather.

On 19 October 2005, the station received a Brunel Award for its architecture and light installation.

Station yard

The station yard consists of seven tracks, of which one is a terminating track, while the other six tracks are through tracks. Altogether, there are a side platform (track 7) and three island platforms, one of which is laid out in a wedge shape (tracks 3/4). One of the remaining island platforms is a partial side platform, due to the head track status of track 1.

Passenger movements are usually handled as follows:[2]

Track 1: Terminal track, serves the S24 to Zürich HB - Winterthur (- Schaffhausen - Thayngen)
Track 2: IC/EC/IR to Arth-Goldau-Ticino
Track 3: IC/EC/IR to Zürich HB, S2 to Baar Lindenpark and Erstfeld
Track 4: IR to Luzern, S1 to Rotkreuz and Luzern
Track 5: IR to Zürich HB/Zürich Flughafen, S1 to Baar
Track 6: A sidetrack, mostly used if another track is occupied
Track 7: S5 to Affoltern-Zürich-Uster-Pfäffikon SZ

Services

The following services call at Zug:[3]

EuroCity: service every two hours between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Milano Centrale; one train per day continues to Venezia Santa Lucia.
InterCity: service every two hours between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Lugano.
InterRegio:
- service every hour between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Lucerne.
- service every hour between Konstanz and Lucerne.
- service every two hours between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Erstfeld.
Lucerne S-Bahn S1/Zug Stadtbahn S 1: service every fifteen minutes between Rotkreuz and Baar, with every other train continuing from Rotkreuz to Sursee.
Zürich S-Bahn:
- S5: half-hourly service to Pfäffikon SZ.
- S24: half-hourly service to Winterthur, trains continue from Winterthur to either Thayngen or Weinfelden.

Interchange

The station is the main hub of the Zug Stadtbahn, and is also part of the Zürich S-Bahn.

The Bahnhofplatz outside the station is a focal point of the extensive local public transport network of the Zugerland Verkehrsbetriebe (ZVB), which has 285 stops and a total route length of 197 km (122 mi).

References

"Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
"Abfahrt Bahnhof Zug" [Departure Zug railway station] (PDF). [ZVB website]. Zugerland Verkehrsbetriebe (ZVB). Retrieved 3 December 2011.
"Abfahrt: Bahnhof Zug" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.

External links

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

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[SBB-1] "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.

[2] "Abfahrt Bahnhof Zug" [Departure Zug railway station] (PDF). [ZVB website]. Zugerland Verkehrsbetriebe (ZVB). Retrieved 3 December 2011.

[abfahrt-3] "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Zug" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.