Winterthur Wülflingen railway station
Winterthur Wülflingen | ||||||||||||||
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 The station in 2007 | ||||||||||||||
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| Location | Wydenweg 13 Winterthur, Zürich Switzerland | |||||||||||||
| Elevation | 452 m above the sea | |||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Winterthur–Bülach–Koblenz railway | |||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Train operators | THURBO | |||||||||||||
| Connections |  Stadtbus Winterthur | |||||||||||||
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| Architect | Karl Strasser (1908) | |||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 August 1876 | |||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1908 | |||||||||||||
| Electrified | 15 July 1945 | |||||||||||||
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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
[edit]The station is situated to the southeast of the Wülflingen district, and separated from the district's centre by the A1/A4 motorway.
History
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]As of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Winterthur Wülflingen:[6]
- Zürich S-Bahn
- S41: half-hourly service between Bülach and Winterthur.
- SN41: on Friday and Saturday night, one round-trip between Bülach and Winterthur.
Local transport
[edit]One Stadtbus Winterthur bus line calls at Winterthur Wülflingen:[7]
| Line | Route |
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| 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
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References
[edit]- ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "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.
- ^ a b Inventar der neueren Schweizerischen Architektur vol 10 page 186 (in German)
- ^ "Eggn' Spoon: Paris-Wülflingen". www.eggnspoon.ch (in German). 2008. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
- ^ Swiss Federal Railways; THURBO (28 September 2023). "Waldshut - Koblenz - Bad Zurzach - Bülach - Winterthur" (PDF) (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2024.
- ^ ZVV (10 December 2023). "Stadt Winterthur | Winterthur City" (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2024.
External links
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Media related to Winterthur Wülflingen railway station at Wikimedia Commons- SBB-CFF-FFS website (Swiss rail operator)
- Winterthur Wülflingen railway station – SBB
