Opfikon railway station
Opfikon | ||||||||||||||||
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The station platforms in 2015 | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Giebeleichstrasse Opfikon Switzerland | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°25′47.820″N 8°33′42.329″E / 47.42995000°N 8.56175806°E | |||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 427 m (1,401 ft) | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Wettingen–Effretikon line | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Connections | ZVV: Opfikon, Bahnhof / Glattbrugg, Post | |||||||||||||||
| VBG 761 768 | ||||||||||||||||
| VBG bus 768 in 0:18h to/from Zurich Airport | ||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 121 (ZVV)[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Services | ||||||||||||||||
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Opfikon is a railway station in Switzerland, in the municipality of Opfikon. The station is served by Zurich S-Bahn line S7. Opfikon station is some 250 metres (820 ft) walk from Glattbrugg station on S-Bahn lines S3, S9 and S15, and the Stadtbahn Glattal.[2][3][4] It lies within fare zone 121 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV).[5]
The station is situated on the Wettingen–Effretikon line, originally opened by the Swiss National Railway (Schweizerische Nationalbahn; SNB) in 1877 and bypassing the city of Zurich. However the passenger trains that stop at the station all operate from Zurich Main Station, 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.[4]
Layout
Opfikon station has a single central platform, which is flanked by two tracks. The two through tracks of the Zurich Airport station branch of the Zurich to Winterthur line run parallel to the platform, but are not connected to the platform tracks in the vicinity of the station,[4][6] and trains to/from Zurich Airport therefore passing by. The station is, however, connected to the airport via a bus route.
Services
The following services stop at Opfikon:[7]
- Zurich S-Bahn:
- S7 Winterthur–Kloten–Hardbrücke–Zürich HB–Meilen–Rapperswil
Operates non stop between Stadelhofen and Meilen, Winterthur and Effretikon, stops in Kemptthal as of 9:20 PM.
- S7 Winterthur–Kloten–Hardbrücke–Zürich HB–Meilen–Rapperswil
During weekends, there is also a nighttime S-Bahn service calling at Opfikon station, offered by ZVV:[8]
- SN7: hourly service between Bassersdorf and Stäfa via Zürich HB.
See also
References
- ^ "Tarifzonen | Fare zones" (PDF). ZVV. 15 December 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
- ^ Zürich City Map (Map). 1:16000. Hallwag Kümmerlry+Frey AG. 25 January 2009. 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.
- ^ "Tariff districts of Zurich and its urban area" (PDF). Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV). Retrieved 1 July 2025.
- ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
- ^ "Zürich – Winterthur" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 25 March 2020. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- ^ "Nachtnetz an Wochenenden | Night time network at weekends" (PDF). www.zvv.ch. Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV). 15 December 2024. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
External links
- Media related to Opfikon railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Opfikon railway station – SBB