Wald-Rüti Railway
The Wald-Rüti-Bahn (WR) is a former Swiss railway company . From 1876 to 1917, the company owned the single-track railway line from Wald ZH to Rüti ZH in the Zurich Oberland, just over six kilometers long .
history
The company was founded to connect the industrial town of Wald to the railway network of the United Swiss Railways (VSB) near Rüti, which had operated a train station there since 1858, which was connected to the metropolis of Zurich . At the same time, there were also efforts to build a line from the forest through the Tösstal to Winterthur , the Tösstalbahn .
The Wald – Rüti line was opened on September 29, 1876, a good two weeks before the opening of the connecting line of the Tösstalbahn from Wald to Bauma. The company was now embedded between two large railway companies and connected to them. But since the WR was too small for its own train promotion, the United Swiss Railways took over from the start and used VSB vehicles. From 1902, after the nationalization of the VSB, the Tösstalbahn took over the operation of the Wald-Rüti-Bahn with its Tösstalbahn locomotives.
On an initiative of the government council of the canton of Zurich in 1912, the parliament passed the federal law on June 10, 1918 concerning the private purchase of the Tösstalbahn and the Wald-Rüti-Bahn by the federal government . The WR came into the possession of the federal government or the Swiss Federal Railways with retroactive effect from January 1, 1918 .
The line was electrified on April 30, 1944.
business
On the section of the Wald-Rüti-Bahn, an S-Bahn line of the S-Bahn Zurich operates today :
- S 26 Winterthur - Bauma - Rüti ZH
Railway stations, stops and structures
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