Winterthur Seen railway station

Winterthur Seen
General information
LocationKanzleistrasse 60
8405 Winterthur
Winterthur, Zürich
Switzerland
Coordinates47°29′15″N 8°46′00″E / 47.48750°N 8.76667°E / 47.48750; 8.76667
Elevation468 m (1,535 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Operated bySwiss Federal Railways
Thurbo
Line(s)Tösstalbahn
Winterthur–Wil
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus interchange Stadtbus Winterthur bus routes[1] 2 9
Other information
Fare zone120 (ZVV)[2]
History
Opened4 May 1875 (1875-05-04)
Services
Preceding station Zurich 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 is located in Switzerland
Winterthur Seen
Winterthur Seen
Location in Switzerland
Winterthur Seen is located in Canton of Zurich
Winterthur Seen
Winterthur Seen
Location in the canton of Zurich

Winterthur Seen railway station (German: Bahnhof Winterthur Seen) is a railway station that serves Seen, which is district 3 in the city of Winterthur, in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. It forms part of the Töss Valley line section between Winterthur and Bauma.[3][4] It is one of ten railway stations in the city of Winterthur (fare zone 120 of ZVV),[2] the others being: Oberwinterthur, Reutlingen, Sennhof-Kyburg, Winterthur, Winterthur Grüze, Winterthur Hegi, Winterthur Töss, Winterthur Wallrüti, and Winterthur Wülflingen.

Location and layout

Winterthur Seen railway station has two side platforms and two tracks (Gleis). The station building contains an Avec supermarket.

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 Swiss Federal Railways.

Services

S-Bahn

The station is served only by S-Bahn trains. It is an intermediate stop of two lines of the Zurich S-Bahn:

Local transport

de:Stadtbus Winterthur serves the station with one Winterthur trolleybus line and one motor bus line. The station is the terminus of both lines.[1]

Line Route
2 WülflingenHauptbahnhof – Seen
9 Seen – Klösterli Iberg – Eidberg

In addition, line 3 (Rosenberg – Hauptbahnhof – Oberseen) has a bus stop called "Post Seen" about 200 m (660 ft) to the west of the station.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Stadtbus Winterthur | Fahrplan" [Timetable] (in German). City of Winterthur. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  2. ^ a b "Tarifzonen | Fare zones" (PDF). Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV). 15 December 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2025.
  3. ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
  4. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

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