Winterthur – Etzwilen railway line

Winterthur – Etzwilen
Timetable field :	821
Route length:	31.81 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Legend to Zurich to Bülach 0.0 Winterthur to Schaffhausen after W. Grüze , Rüti ZH and Wil SG 3.61 Oberwinterthur to Romanshorn Winterthur Wallrüti 6.36 Reutlingen (CH) A1 (63 m) 7.52 Seuzach 9.97 Dinhard 11.84 Thalheim - Altikon Thur Bridge Ossingen (332 m) 19.47 Ossingen 26.88 Stammheim (CH) from Schaffhausen 31.81 Etzwilen to Singen (Hohentwiel) to Constance

Thur Bridge Ossingen

Etzwilen station

The railway line Winterthur – Etzwilen was opened on July 17, 1875 between Winterthur and Etzwilen by the Swiss National Railway (SNB). On the same day, the Etzwilen-Konstanz, Kreuzlingen-Kreuzlingen-Hafen and Etzwilen – Singen railway lines were opened. The railway company went bankrupt in 1878 . The route was then taken over by the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB). It has been part of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) route network since 1902 .

history

The line was electrified on May 15, 1928 between Winterthur and Oberwinterthur with 15 kV 16.7 Hz . The line between Oberwinterthur and Etzwilen, and on to Stein am Rhein, was electrified on October 7, 1946.

Conductorless operation was introduced on the Winterthur – Stein am Rhein line in autumn 1992. At that time, the RABDe 8/16 were replaced by RBDe 4/4 .

At the request of the City of Winterthur, Winterthur-Wallrüti, the last new train station on the route, was opened in 1986.

route

Initially, four single-track lines ran from Winterthur in the direction of Oberwinterthur and Winterthur Grüze. These were subsequently merged into two double-lane routes (Winterthur-Oberwinterthur (1903) and Winterthur-Winterthur Grüze (1949)). The northernmost track belonged to this route. Next to it was the NOB main track in the direction of Romanshorn, followed by the VSB track to St. Gallen and the southernmost track was used by the Tösstalbahn . The rest of the route has remained single-track to this day.

Between Thalheim and Ossingen, the Thur is crossed with the 328 meter long Ossinger Viaduct. The five-span truss bridge has only been overhauled and modernized, so it is basically still the original bridge from 1877. A 63-meter-long two-span prestressed concrete bridge was built near Reutlingen in 1967 over the newly built Autobahn 1 .

business

The following trains have operated on the route since the 2018 timetable change:

• Every hour from 6 a.m. to midnight the S 11 Aarau - Lenzburg - Dietikon - Zurich HB - Stettbach - Winterthur - Seuzach / Sennhof-Kyburg (- Wila ) on the Winterthur - Seuzach section (the other branch of the S11 leads from Winterthur instead of to Seuzach, to Sennhof-Kyburg or Wila)
• Every half hour from 5 a.m. to midnight the S 29 Winterthur - Stein a. Rhine (from 9 p.m. every hour to Stein am Rhein and every hour to Seuzach)

Between Winterthur and Seuzach there is a slightly limping half-hourly service of 29 to 31 minutes. As part of the 4th partial additions to the Zurich S-Bahn , the ½ hour cycle was also introduced on the S29 from the 2019 timetable period.

literature

• Hans G. Wägli, General Secretariat SBB (Ed.): Swiss Rail Network . AS-Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 978-3-905111-21-7 .

Web links

Commons : Winterthur – Etzwilen railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SER 7-8 / 1992 pages 283-284
2. ↑ Article «Many train stations have little to offer» by Christian Gurtner. The Landbote of February 18, 2015.