Zürich HB
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Zürich Hauptbahnhof
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| Central terminal and underground pass-through railway station | |
Zürich Hauptbahnhof viewed from the east.
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| Other names | Zürich HB |
| Location | Bahnhofplatz 15, CH-8001 Zürich, ZH Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 47°22′40″N 8°32′25″E / 47.37778°N 8.54028°ECoordinates: 47°22′40″N 8°32′25″E / 47.37778°N 8.54028°E |
| Elevation | 408 m (1,339 ft) |
| Owned by | SBB CFF FFS (Swiss Federal Railways) |
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| Platforms | 13 |
| Tracks | 26 (German: Gleis; 16 at-grade, terminal tracks; 2 underground, terminal tracks; 8 underground, pass-through tracks) |
| Connections | ZVV: Bahnhofplatz/HB, Bahnhofstr./HB, Bahnhofquai/HB, Sihlquai/HB, Sihlpost/HB |
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ZSG Limmat river cruise (Landesmuseum) |
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VBZ trams 3 4 6 7 10 11 13 14 17 |
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VBZ trolley buses 31 46 |
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numerous trains per hour to/from Zürich Flughafen in c. 0:10h and VBZ tram 10 in 0:49h |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | at-grade and underground |
| Depth | 0 |
| Platform levels | 2 (4 passenger levels) |
| Parking | limited short-term |
| Bicycle facilities | openair (10/1048), covered (3/214), secured (Velostation Süd:750, Velostation Nord:170) |
| Architect | Jakob Friedrich Wanner (1871) |
| Architectural style | Neorenaissance (1871) |
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| Fare zone | ZVV: 110 |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Opened | 9 August 1847 |
| Rebuilt | 1871, 1990 (S-Bahn), 2014 (Löwenstrasse) |
| Electrified | 5 February 1923 |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers (2014) | 441,400 per working day |
| Rank | 1 of 1735 |
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 Zürich HB
Zürich HB (Switzerland)
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Zürich Hauptbahnhof (often shortened to Zürich HB; English: Zürich Main Station or Zürich Central Station) is the largest railway station in Switzerland. Zürich is a major railway hub, with services to and from across Switzerland and neighbouring European countries such as Germany, Italy, Austria and France. The station was originally constructed as the terminus of the Spanisch Brötli Bahn, the first railway built completely within Switzerland. Serving up to 2,915 trains per day, Zürich HB is one of the busiest railway stations in the world.
The station can be found at the northern end of the Altstadt, or old town, in central Zürich, near the confluence of the rivers Limmat and Sihl. The station is on several levels, with platforms both at ground and below ground level, and tied together by underground passages and the ShopVille shopping mall. The Sihl passes through the station in a tunnel with railway tracks both above and below. The station's railway yards extend about 4 km (2.5 mi) to the west.
The station is included in the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance.
The first Zürich railway station was built by Gustav Albert Wegmann, on what were then the north-western outskirts of the city. It occupied a piece of land between the rivers Limmat and Sihl, and trains accessed it from the west via a bridge over the Sihl. At the eastern end of the station was a turntable, used for turning locomotives. This basic terminal station layout, with all trains arriving from the west, was to set the basic design of the station for the next 143 years.
The new station was the initially the terminus of the Swiss Northern Railway, more often called the Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn, which opened on 9 August 1847 and linked Zürich with Baden. Initially the railway lines in the station were laid to a gauge of 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in), perhaps because the same gauge was used at the contemperaneous and nearby Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway.
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