Opfikon railway station

Railway station in Switzerland

Preceding station	Zürich S-Bahn			Following station
Zürich Oerlikon towards Rapperswil		S7		Kloten Balsberg towards Winterthur

Location
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Opfikon is a railway station in Switzerland, in the municipality of Opfikon. The station is served by Zürich S-Bahn line S7. Opfikon station is some 250 metres (820 ft) walk from Glattbrugg station on S-Bahn line S5 and the Stadtbahn Glattal.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The Opfikon station has a single central platform, which is flanked by two tracks. The two through tracks of the Zürich Airport station branch of the Zürich to Winterthur line run parallel to the platform, but are not connected to the platform tracks in the vicinity of the station.^[3]^[4]

The station is situated on the Wettingen–Effretikon line, originally opened by the Swiss National Railway (Schweizerische Nationalbahn; SNB) in 1877 and bypassing Zürich. However the passenger trains that stop at the station all operate from Zürich, using a connection from Zürich Oerlikon station opened in 1881. The station area was heavily modified in 1978, when the airport branch and its through tracks were added.^[3]

Services

The following services stop at Opfikon:^[5]

Zürich S-Bahn S7: half-hourly service between Rapperswil and Winterthur.

References

^ Zürich City Map (Map). 1:16000. Hallwag Kümmerlry+Frey AG. 2009-01-25. ISBN 978-3-8283-0070-5.
^ "S-Bahn trains, buses and boats" (PDF). ZVV. 9 December 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 64–65. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
^ "Zürich – Winterthur" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.