Rhine Falls Railway
| Winterthur – Schaffhausen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Timetable field : | 762 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 29.92 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 14 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Rhine Falls Railway from Winterthur to Schaffhausen is a standard gauge railway line in Switzerland . It crosses the Rhine southwest of Schaffhausen just above the Rhine Falls , which gave the railway its name.
history
In 1853 the Rheinfallbahn-Gesellschaft was founded on the initiative of Friedrich Peyer im Hof and Heinrich Moser . The construction of the railway began in 1855 under the leadership of chief construction manager Carl Ruland from Munich. The construction of the Andelfingen –Schaffhausen section was much more difficult than the Andelfingen – Winterthur section, because it required two bridges and a tunnel (the Rötitunnel was only opened in 1963 / Built in 1964 during the construction of the sewage treatment plant), which sometimes required enormous earth movements. The Rhine Falls Bridge has had a pedestrian walkway on both sides since the late 1950s, which connects Neuhausen am Rheinfall with Laufen and is used by visitors to the Rhine Falls .
Even before operations opened, the company was taken over by the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB) on November 4, 1856 , which opened operations on April 16, 1857. Schaffhausen was thus connected to Winterthur via the Zürcher Weinland . From there there were train connections via Zurich main station to Brugg and in the other direction to Romanshorn and St. Gallen .
Originally the line was supposed to connect Zurich with southern Germany , but in 1897 a shorter route was opened via Bülach , so that today practically only local trains run on the Rhine Falls Railway.
The line was switched to electrical operation on April 11, 1943.
On January 10, 2013, a SBB HVZ double-decker train Schaffhausen-Winterthur and a Thurbo - GTW composition coming from Winterthur collided head- on in Neuhausen am Rheinfall . The Thurbo driver had ignored a stop signal. Rescue workers from Schaffhausen, Zurich and Germany immediately deployed with a large number. 26 passengers were injured and there was property damage in the millions. The disregarded signal was only secured with the Integra-Signum and not with ZUB .
business
The line has been owned by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) since 1902 and part of the Zurich S-Bahn since May 1990 . The route is mainly driven by the S33 (operated by the Thurbo ) and, since December 2006, also by the S16. The dense timetable allows hardly any freight trains or extra trains on the single-track route. Due to the lack of expansion, only a half-hourly limping cycle is possible on the route, as the required intersection near Winterthur is only single-track. As part of the 4th partial additions to the Zurich S-Bahn, the S-Bahn is exchanged: The S11 has been coming every half hour from Wila and Seuzach since December 2016 and continues in the direction of Winterthur to Dietikon and every hour to Aarau (Mon-Fri rush hour every half hour) . In the Weinland, the S12 comes in return and runs every hour from Schaffhausen / Wil to Brugg. In addition, a new line is being used in the wine country, the S24, it runs every hour and only with stops in Andelfingen and Neuhausen in the wine country from Schaffhausen / Weinfelden to Zug. The S16, on the other hand, will be canceled and will only go to the airport. This means that the entire wine country has a direct train to Zurich with the S12.
At the moment (timetable year 2019) the following lines operate on the Rhine Falls Railway:
- S 12 Brugg - Altstetten - Zurich HB - Stadelhofen - Winterthur - Schaffhausen / Wil - Schaffhausen
- S 24 Thayngen - Schaffhausen / Weinfelden - Winterthur - Zurich Airport - Zurich HB - Thalwil - Horgen Oberdorf - Zug (only stops in Andelfingen and Neuhausen)
- S 33 Winterthur - Schaffhausen
- SN3 Winterthur - Schaffhausen (- Stein am Rhein ) (only runs on weekend nights)