Wallisellen station

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Wallisellen
Platform 3/4 from the west side at the end of the station
Platform 3/4 from the west side at the end of the station
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 4th
abbreviation WS
IBNR 8503129
opening 1856
Profile on SBB.ch No. 3129
Architectural data
Architectural style Modern
location
City / municipality Wallisellen
Canton Zurich
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 687037  /  251962 coordinates: 47 ° 24 '46 "  N , 8 ° 35' 31"  O ; CH1903:  687,037  /  251962
Height ( SO ) 431  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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The Wallisellen station is located at the junction of Glatttallinie of the railway line Zurich-Winterthur . It opens up the community of Wallisellen and is a junction in the central Glattal , it is located in the center of Wallisellen and is served by the SBB .

The Wallisellen station is a major hub and is an S-Bahn station and various bus lines and a tram line controlled.

The station is in Zone 121 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV).

Track systems

Since the renovation between 2007 and 2010, the track system has still consisted of four standard-gauge station tracks on two central barriers. Only the two tracks are used regularly today. The S-Bahn trains of the S-Bahn Zurich all stop at platforms 3 and 4, which have the standard height of 55 cm. The second platform with tracks 5 and 6 no longer corresponds to the current standard. It is only used outside the schedule for diversions and for special trains. Tracks 1 and 2 were dismantled for the Mittim project and for the implementation of the Glattalbahn .

The Zurich – Winterthur railway line and the Glatttall line branching off in Wallisellen are both double-tracked. The switches are designed so that trains that branch off can also pass through the station at a maximum speed of 90 km / h.

On the side facing the city center, the Glattalbahn stop was built with two meter-gauge tram tracks right next to the SBB station tracks. The Glattalbahn crosses the railway tracks on a viaduct at the eastern end of the station.

Zurich S-Bahn

Since the introduction of the Zurich S-Bahn in 1990, the S-Bahn trains have been the main mode of transport in Wallisellen station.

Trains run every half hour on all lines. In the off-peak hours and during rush hour, unnumbered S-Bahn trains also serve the station as relief trains. The station is not served by long-distance traffic.

Tram line 12 of the Glattalbahn

Local transport

There is a bus station on the station forecourt, where two regional and two local bus lines stop. The Glattalbahn tram station is located between the bus station and track 3 . Park-and-ride facilities for motorized traffic exist south of the station .

All bus lines and the tram line are operated by Verkehrsbetriebe-Glattal (VBG).

Bus routes:

Tram line:

night bus

Two night bus routes run via Wallisellen on weekends:

Infrastructure

On the south side of the Wallisellen station there is the “Park + Ride” offer with a total of 67 parking spaces, and there are also three Mobility car sharing spaces . The SBB train station counter and a grocery store are located at the tram station . The taxi stands and an ATM are also on this side.

The station is handicapped accessible, it has a wheelchair-accessible ticket counter, wheelchair-accessible toilets and stepless platform access.

The parking garage Zentrum Wallisellen with 150 parking spaces is connected to the train station , above the underground car park there is a small shopping center with various shops, including a bank and a bakery.

history

This station was of greater importance in the pioneering days of the railway, as the United Swiss Railways and the Swiss Northeast Railway were linked here.

Wallisellen station was put into operation on June 25, 1856 with the inauguration of the NOB line Zurich – Wallisellen – Winterthur. On August 1, 1856, the Glatthalbahn Wallisellen-Uster was also opened, which was taken over and extended by the United Swiss Railways (VSB) in 1857 ; the station thus became an important transfer station in the region. It was not until 1866 that the NOB railway management decided to build a station building that was built in the same style as the reception buildings in Amriswil , Arbon and Dietikon based on plans by Jakob Friedrich Wanner .

View towards the city center

Changes to the track systems and the surrounding buildings took place several times. From 1902, following the nationalization of the NOB and VSB, the tracks of the two predecessor railways were merged and the safety systems were rebuilt; In 1929 the station was expanded and roofs for the platforms were built together with a pedestrian underpass. These platform roofs had previously been installed at the entrance to the old station concourse at Zurich main station and were transported here for further use when it was demolished. In 1975 a major change was made to the reception building: the side wing on the west side of the reception building was torn down and replaced by a one-story signal box with a few additional operating rooms and a modern flat roof. A flat roof was also added on the east side. The old signal tower was demolished.

With the opening of the airport route in 1980, Wallisellen station lost almost all express train traffic, as the express trains and IC now ran to the airport station. At the same time, however, regional traffic in the Glattal increased significantly, so that in 1985 the Wallisellen – Uster line was expanded to double-track. When the Zürichberglinie was put into operation in 1990 as the centerpiece of the Zürich S-Bahn , the Wallisellen station lost even more importance, as the Glattallinie was now approached by most of the S-Bahn via the Neugut junction, thus bypassing Wallisellen. The station has since been served by lines S8 and S14, which separate here.

From 2004, the Glattalbahn was built as a meter-gauge tram between Zurich Airport and Dübendorf in three stages (originally called the Glattal Stadtbahn , not to be confused with the former Wallisellen – Uster Glatthalbahn ). In its third stage, it also reached Wallisellen station in 2010. In the course of the renovation of the station, the reception building, including the pedestrian underpass and the platform roofs, had to make way for a new building; the train station and forecourt and the adjacent town center were completely redesigned. The new train station building with the new bus station opened on February 25, 2010, and the new tram line opened on December 12, 2010.

Expansion and modernization

Wallisellen station will be expanded together with the construction of the Brüttener Tunnel.

Miscellaneous

  • Right next to the train station is the area of ​​the former Wallisellen signal box factory, later the Integra Signum company , today a Siemens Mobility plant . This plant has supplied the majority of signal boxes, train protection systems ( Integra-Signum ) and other signaling technology products in Switzerland. The area has a rail connection to Wallisellen station.
  • The south-eastern pedestrian underpass of the train station enables access to the Richti area . Through this quarter there is a pedestrian connection to the Glatt center .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wallisellen ( Memento of April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Site accessed on April 10, 2014
  2. ↑ Zentrum-Wallisellen: http://www.zentrum-wallisellen.ch/ Site accessed on April 10, 2014
  3. ↑ Klaus Heintel: Wallisellen and the railway , in Railway Amateur No. 4/99, pages 255-231
  4. ↑ Manuel Navarro: SBB are planning massive expansion of the Wallisellen station . In: Zürcher Unterländer . June 8, 2019 ( zuonline.ch [accessed June 8, 2019]).