Zurich Hauptbahnhof

Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Central terminal and underground pass-through railway station
Zürich Hauptbahnhof viewed from the east.
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°E / 47.37778; 8.54028Coordinates: 47°22′40″N 8°32′25″E / 47.37778°N 8.54028°E / 47.37778; 8.54028
Elevation	408 m (1,339 ft)
Owned by	SBB CFF FFS (Swiss Federal Railways)
Operated by	SBB CFF FFS SZU (Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn)
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
	ZSG Limmat river cruise (Landesmuseum)
	S-Bahn
	VBZ trams 3 4 6 7 10 11 13 14 17
	VBZ trolley buses 31 46
	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)
Architect	Jakob Friedrich Wanner (1871)
Architectural style	Neorenaissance (1871)
Other information
Fare zone	ZVV: 110
Website	Zürich Hauptbahnhof
History
Opened	9 August 1847 (1847-08-09)
Rebuilt	1871, 1990 (S-Bahn), 2014 (Löwenstrasse)
Electrified	5 February 1923 (1923-02-05)
Traffic
Passengers (2014)	441,400 per working day
Rank	1 of 1735
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station Zürich Oerlikon   Zürich S-Bahn S2 line   Zürich Wiedikon Zürich Hardbrücke   Zürich S-Bahn S3 line   Zürich Stadelhofen Terminus   Zürich S-Bahn S4 line   Zürich Selnau Zürich Hardbrücke   Zürich S-Bahn S5 line   Zürich Stadelhofen Zürich Hardbrücke   Zürich S-Bahn S6 line   Zürich Stadelhofen Zürich Hardbrücke   Zürich S-Bahn S7 line   Zürich Stadelhofen Zürich Oerlikon   Zürich S-Bahn S8 line   Zürich Wiedikon Zürich Hardbrücke   Zürich S-Bahn S9 line   Zürich Stadelhofen Terminus   Zürich S-Bahn S10 line   Zürich Selnau Zürich Hardbrücke   Zürich S-Bahn S11 line   Zürich Stadelhofen Zürich Hardbrücke   Zürich S-Bahn S12 line   Zürich Stadelhofen Zürich Oerlikon   Zürich S-Bahn S14 line   Zürich Altstetten Zürich Hardbrücke   Zürich S-Bahn S15 line   Zürich Stadelhofen Zürich Hardbrücke   Zürich S-Bahn S16 line   Zürich Stadelhofen Zürich Altstetten   Zürich S-Bahn S19 line   Zürich Oerlikon Terminus   Zürich S-Bahn S21 line   Zürich Wiedikon Zürich Wipkingen   Zürich S-Bahn S24 line   Zürich Wiedikon Terminus   Zürich S-Bahn S25 line   Wädenswil
Location
Zürich HB Zürich HB (Switzerland)

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 departing and departing from the east, 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.