Horgen railway station is a railway station in Switzerland, situated on the banks of Lake Zürich in the town of Horgen. The station is located on the Lake Zürich left bank railway line and is served by lines S2 and S8 of the Zürich S-Bahn.[2][3][4]
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| Location | Horgen Switzerland | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°15′41.3352″N 8°35′48.8022″E / 47.261482000°N 8.596889500°E | |||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 409 m (1,342 ft) | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Lake Zürich left-bank line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||
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The station provides an integrated transfer facility with the buses of the Zimmerberg bus line, which operate from a bus station immediately adjacent to the railway station. Ships of the Zürichsee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft call at a pier on the lakeside immediately adjacent to the station, whilst the Horgen–Meilen car ferry operates from a terminal some 600 metres (2,000 ft) to the south-east along the lakeside promenade.
Horgen station should not be confused with the nearby, but higher level, Horgen Oberdorf railway station, which is on the Thalwil–Arth-Goldau railway. The two stations are approximately 0.9 kilometres (0.56 mi) apart on foot.
Services
editAs of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following services call at Horgen:
- Zürich S-Bahn:
- S2: half-hourly service between Zürich Airport and Ziegelbrücke; on weekends some trains continue to Unterterzen.
- S8: half-hourly service between Pfäffikon SZ and Winterthur
Gallery
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View from footbridge to south -
Bus station from rail platform
References
edit- ^ "Regionalnetz | Regional network" (PDF) (in German). ZVV. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ^ "S-Bahn trains, buses and boats" (PDF). ZVV. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
External links
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Media related to Horgen railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Horgen railway station – SBB
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