Stadelhofen railway station

Zürich Stadelhofen
Pass-through railway station
Location	Stadelhoferstrasse 6A CH-8008 Zürich, ZH Switzerland
Coordinates	47°22′00″N 8°32′55″E / 47.36667°N 8.54861°E / 47.36667; 8.54861Coordinates: 47°22′00″N 8°32′55″E / 47.36667°N 8.54861°E / 47.36667; 8.54861
Elevation	410 m (1,350 ft)
Owned by	SBB CFF FFS (Swiss Federal Railways)
Operated by	SBB CFF FFS
Line(s)	Lake Zürich right bank Zürichberg Forchbahn
Platforms	2
Tracks	3 (German: Gleis)
Connections	ZVV: Bahnhof Stadelhofen, Opernhaus
	S-Bahn
	VBZ trams 11 15, and Forchbahn FB S 18 at stop Bahnhof Stadelhofen, and VBZ trams 2 4 at stop Opernhaus
	Suburban busses 912 916 at stop Opernhaus
	A direct train S 16 every half an hour to/from Zürich Flughafen in 0:18h and many more connections with one change in 0:20h
Construction
Structure type	at-grade
Depth	0
Platform levels	1 (3 passenger levels)
Parking	none
Bicycle facilities	openair (3/349), one of them on Stadelhoferplatz
Architect	1990: Santiago Calatrava
Other information
Fare zone	ZVV: 110
Website	Bahnhof Zürich Stadelhofen
History
Opened	1894 (1894)
Rebuilt	1983–1990 (1983–1990) (S-Bahn launch)
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	81,100 per working day
Rank	8 of 1735
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station Zürich Hauptbahnhof   Zürich S-Bahn S3 line   Stettbach Zürich Hauptbahnhof   Zürich S-Bahn S5 line   Uster Zürich Hauptbahnhof   Zürich S-Bahn S6 line   Zürich Tiefenbrunnen Zürich Hauptbahnhof   Zürich S-Bahn S7 line   Meilen Zürich Hauptbahnhof   Zürich S-Bahn S9 line   Stettbach Zürich Hauptbahnhof   Zürich S-Bahn S11 service   Stettbach Zürich Hauptbahnhof   Zürich S-Bahn S12 line   Stettbach Zürich Hauptbahnhof   Zürich S-Bahn S15 line   Uster Zürich Hauptbahnhof   Zürich S-Bahn S16 line   Zürich Tiefenbrunnen Terminus   Zürich S-Bahn S18 line   Zürich Kreuzplatz (tram stop)
Location
Zürich Stadelhofen railway station (Switzerland)

Zürich Stadelhofen (German: Zürich Stadelhofen) is an important local railway station in the city of Zürich, on the Zürich-Rapperswil, Zürich-Winterthur, Zürich-Uster lines of the SBB CFF FFS (Swiss Federal Railways). It is also the terminus of the Forchbahn (FB) suburban railway and is served by several lines of the Zürich tram network.

Stadelhofen lies close to the Zürich Opera House and near Bellevue Square. It is in the southeastern part of the city and is close to Lake Zürich, on its north-eastern shore.

Stadelhofen station opened in 1894, at the same time as the Lake Zürich right bank railway (Rechtsufrige Zürichseebahn) from Zürich Hauptbahnhof to Rapperswil station. Until 1990, the station was an intermediate stop on this single track line, which departed from the Hauptbahnhof in a westerly direction, before performing a clockwise 270 degrees turn via a viaduct over the River Limmat and passing through Letten station and the Letten tunnel to Stadelhofen. By rail the distance between the Hauptbahnhof and Stadelhofen was some 5 kilometres (3.1 mi), despite the fact that they are only 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) apart in a straight line.

In 1990 there were major changes to the railway geography of this part of Zürich. To the north of Stadelhofen, the Letten tunnel was closed and replaced by the twin-track Hirschengraben tunnel, which took a direct route under the River Limmat to Hauptbahnhof, serving new through low level platforms there. At the same time a junction was formed to the south of Stadelhofen, allowing trains leaving Zurich to take either the original right bank line to Tiefenbrunnen station and onwards to Rapperswil, or to travel via the newly built Zürichberg Tunnel to Stettbach station and points to the east and north of Zurich.