Hinwil railway station

Hinwil
Hinwil
	Hinwil railway station, 2017
General information
Location	Bahnhofplatz, Hinwil, ; Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
Coordinates	47°17′59″N 8°50′21″E / 47.2997°N 8.839231°E
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Operated by	Swiss Federal Railways; Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland
Line(s)	Effretikon–Hinwil; Uerikon–Bauma
Connections	DVZO heritage railway
Services

Hinwil railway station (German: Bahnhof Hinwil) is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zurich and municipality of Hinwil. The station is situated at the junction of the Effretikon to Hinwil via Wetzikon railway line, which is still in full use, and the Uerikon to Bauma railway (UeBB), which is partly closed and partly used as a heritage railway.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Services

Hinwil station is the terminus of Zurich S-Bahn route S14, which operates from Zurich via Uster and Wetzikon.^[2]

Zürich S-Bahn S14: half-hourly service to Affoltern am Albis via Zürich HB

Heritage railway

Hinwil station is also the terminus of services of the Dampfbahn-Verein Zürcher Oberland (DVZO), who operate heritage services to Bauma, over the former UeBB, with trains normally hauled by steam locomotives. The UeBB line in the other direction, towards Uerikon, was closed in 1948 and little now remains.^[3]^[4]

Gallery

Hinwil station in 1877
Hinwil station in 1902

References

^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
^ ^a ^b "S-Bahn trains, buses and boats" (PDF). ZVV. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Fahrplan an den Fahrsonntagen im 2012" [Sunday timetable for 2012] (in German). DVZO. Retrieved 2012-03-08.