Stettbach station

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Stettbach station
New construction of the station area (October 2012)
New construction of the station area
(October 2012)
Data
Location in the network Connecting station
Design Tunnel station
Platform tracks 2
opening 1990
location
City / municipality Dubendorf
Canton Zurich
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 687 380  /  250244 coordinates: 47 ° 23 '50 "  N , 8 ° 35' 46"  O ; CH1903:  six hundred eighty-seven thousand three hundred and eighty  /  250244
Height ( SO ) 440  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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Access to the platforms
Stettbach station at night

The Stettbach is a traffic hub on the border of the Swiss city of Zurich to the neighboring village of Dübendorf . It is one of the thirteen SBB stations in the area of ​​the city of Zurich, which is served by several tram and regional bus routes. Most of the platform area and the tram stop above are located in Zurich's urban area. The SBB station is named after the Dübendorfer hamlet of Stettbach . Because of its location in both municipal areas, it does not have a name suffix Zurich . The SBB usually refer to the structure as the Stettbach S-Bahn station , while the VBZ call their station Stettbach station . In terms of rail technology, Stettbach is a fully-fledged station with entry signals and switches on both sides.

history

The tunnel and train station are both part of the new buildings that were specially built for the Zurich S-Bahn and went into operation in May 1990. The station was built using opencast mining together with the Zürichberg Tunnel as its northernmost section.

When planning the Zurich S-Bahn, a stop was planned from the start in the area of ​​the Zurichberg tunnel portal. At that time, it was still on the green field, but in the middle of a building development area. With the construction of the station, it was decided to extend the Schwamendingen tram line, which is also being planned, to the S-Bahn station, where its final stop should be. In addition to the tram line, a spacious bus stop was also planned. The opportunity was not missed to create a junction between the railway and the rest of the urban transport. The Park + Ride facility , which was also planned at the time, was not implemented at this time, although the preparatory work on the structure of the station was carried out. The tram stop was opened in 1986 when the station below was still under construction. All construction site traffic for the Zürichberg Tunnel was routed through the shell construction station.

The above-ground part of the train station with the tram stop before the renovation

The above-ground part of the facility was redesigned in connection with the construction of the Glattalbahn in 2009 and 2010. The tram and bus systems were adapted to the new requirements. Generous areas for pedestrians were created around the entrance to the underground train station.

Building

The largely underground stop consists of a 300-meter-long central platform at the northeastern end of the Zürichberg tunnel, at the other (southern) end of which is the Zürich Stadelhofen train station . In a northerly direction, the Zürichberglinie leaves the tunnel at the end of the train station and, after a cut, changes to the Neugut Viaduct in the direction of Dietlikon , after which the old NOB main line Oerlikon - Wallisellen - Effretikon is reached. On the Neugut Viaduct, a double-lane connection branches off level-free in the direction of Dübendorf to the Glatthalbahn line Wallisellen – Uster (not to be confused with the Glattalbahn ).

The station came to be in the section where the route will be brought up to the beginning of the rocky section of the Zurichberg tunnel in the open pit. Since the Zurichberg tunnel was to be excavated from this side with a tunnel boring machine , the shell of the station had to be built before the actual excavation of the tunnel. The excavation of the construction pit therefore began in the summer of 1983 and, thanks to favorable weather conditions, could be completed quickly. Special attention, also for the later structure, had to be paid to the groundwater level rising with the terrain. In addition, the route falls from north to south. The groundwater level rises in the area of ​​the station from north to south 0.7 to over 8 meters above the top of the rail. To ensure the groundwater circulation under the structure, two permeable gravel layers five meters wide and one and a half meters thick were built under the base plate. The groundwater is also the reason why the supporting structure that surrounds the railway line had to be designed largely as a closed box cross-section. Only at the northern end was the design as an open trough sufficient. During construction, the 120 cm thick floor slab was concreted first and only then the walls and pillars were placed on the floor slab. The ceiling of the station part could be concreted with a falsework. In contrast, the 105 meters south of the air opening had to be built with a cross-section of 8 by 11.5 meters with prestressed concrete hollow girder boxes and in-situ concrete, as the back-up of the tunnel boring machine had to be installed here at the same time. Two escalators, a fixed staircase and a lift with glass on one side lead to the tram and bus stop above. Until 2010, the southern staircase led to the middle of the green meadow south of Dübendorfstrasse, where a Park + Ride facility was originally to be built. The lift originally planned here was never installed and for a long time the stairs were only marked as an emergency exit; With the conversion of the public transport platform and the relocation of Dübendorfstrasse to the south, the stairs now open close to the southern pavement and have been marked as a regular exit since the beginning of 2011.

The desolate concrete tube of the S-Bahn station was artistically upgraded at Dübendorf's request. The financial means for this were made available by the city of Dübendorf and the local private sector. The artist Gottfried Honegger , whose old Swiss studio is in Gockhausen, spontaneously came up with an idea that convinced the initiators: the 250-meter-long tunnel walls were to be colored and marked to indicate the direction of travel (in and out of town). His idea was carried out in the form of 42 colored "pictures", each consisting of 20 enamelled triangular metal plates. High technical requirements are placed on this work of art, as trains travel around half a meter past the work of art at up to 120 km / h - with the corresponding pressure and suction effect. The «pictures» have been defaced by graffiti for years , which SBB is no longer removing.

As in the Zürichberg tunnel, a ballastless superstructure was chosen as the track bed. This consists of normal concrete two-block sleepers, which are provided with a rubber shoe. These are cast into the recess of the support plate with fine concrete. Vignole rails of type UIC 54 were installed as rails .

traffic

Zurich S-Bahn

Stettbach station is only served by S-Bahn trains.

The lines serve the station every day and all day every half hour (with changing end points). The S 5 and S 15 run between Stadelhofen and Uster without stopping in Stettbach or at the other stations in between. The additional rush hour trains Zurich - Winterthur, known as the S 23 , also pass through without stopping.

ZVV night network

Local transport

The terminus of VBZ tram line 7, which goes to downtown Zurich, has been on the surface since 1986 , as well as six regional bus routes that open up Dübendorf and the surrounding Glatt Valley as well as various industrial and shopping areas. There are also park-and-ride facilities for motorized traffic at the station.

Initially, in addition to tram line 7, only three regional bus lines served the S-Bahn station. This local transport offer has been gradually expanded over the years and today includes:

  • 7 Stettbach station - Schwamendingen - Central - Hauptbahnhof - Enge station - Wollishofen
  • 12 Stettbach - Wallisellen - Auzelg - Glattbrugg station - Zurich Airport
  • 743Stettbach station - Dübendorf, Wil church - Fällanden parish hall - Maur See
  • 744 Stettbach station - Dübendorf, Wil church - Fällanden parish hall - Scheuren station
  • 751 Stettbach - Gockhausen - Zurich train station , Fluntern church
  • 752 Stettbach train station - Dübendorf train station - Dübendorf, artificial ice rink
  • 760 Stettbach train station - EMPA - Dübendorf Train station - Dübendorf, Gfenn Hofacher / Dübendorf, Gfenn

In December 2010, line 12 of the Glattalbahn began operations with its terminus in Stettbach and Zurich Airport . With the completion of the third expansion stage of the Glatttalbahn, the importance of the station as the terminus and transfer point for public transport increased.

Planned expansions

As a result of the regional traffic conference in Glattal, an extension of tram line 7 (to Dübendorf Nord station and later Wangen ) has been entered in the cantonal structure plan , which would also use the route of the Glattalbahn. Due to the population and traffic forecasts, however, there is no need for this until 2025, which is why there are currently neither concrete plans nor license applications for the corresponding routes.

The Zurich Zoo has a cable car projected that the station to the zoo grounds on the Zurich mountain would connect. The project is fought by residents along the route and the city of Dübendorf.

literature

  • Robert Fechtig, Max Glättli (Ed.): Project planning and construction of the Zurich S-Bahn . Stäubli Verlag, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-7266-0021-3 , p. 25, 362-374 .

Web links

Commons : Stettbach railway station  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SER 4/82 page 137
  2. ↑ VBZ: Media release from February 25, 2009: Start of construction at Stettbach station. (PDF) Archived from the original on October 15, 2009 ; Retrieved November 18, 2009 .
  3. ↑ VBG / Glatttalbahn: total line network. Retrieved November 18, 2009 .
  4. ↑ zooseilbahn.ch. Retrieved December 27, 2015 .