Rüti ZH railway station

Rüti ZH
File:Rüti - Bahnhof - Walderstrasse IMG 1966 ShiftN.jpg Rüti railway station from the south-east
Location	Bahnhofstrasse, Rüti, Canton of Zurich, Switzerland
Coordinates
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Operated by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Wallisellen–Uster–Rapperswil Tösstalbahn
Platforms	3
Connections	VZO bus services
History
Opened	1859
Electrified	1932
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station Bubikon   Zürich S-Bahn S5 service   Jona Bubikon   Zürich S-Bahn S15 service   Jona Tann-Dürnten   Zurich S-Bahn S26 service   Terminus
Location
Rüti ZH railway station (Switzerland)

Rüti ZH is a railway station in the municipality of Rüti in the Swiss canton of Zurich. The station is located on the Wallisellen to Rapperswil line just south-west of its junction with the Tösstalbahn from Winterthur via Wald. It is served by passenger trains of the Zurich S-Bahn.

History

The station opened in 1859, shortly after the opening of the Uster to Rapperswil portion of the Wallisellen to Rapperswil line in 1858. Although the line was originally promoted by an independent company, by the time Rüti station opened it was owned by the Vereinigte Schweizerbahnen (VSB) railway company.

The line to Wald opened in 1876, making Rüti into a junction station. The line was independently owned but operated by the VSB. The VSB became part of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in 1902, at which point operation of the line to Wald was taken over by the Tösstalbahn (TTB) that already ran from Winterthur to Wald. Both the line to Wald and the TTB itself became part of the SBB in 1918.

The Wallisellen to Rapperswil line was electrified in 1932, and the line to Wald in 1944.

Operation

Services

The station is served by Zurich S-Bahn lines S5 and S15, which run between Zürich and Rapperswil. Between them, they provide four trains per hour throughout the day, with a journey time from Zürich Hauptbahnhof of just over 30 minutes.

The station is also the terminus of line S26 from Winterthur over the Tösstalbahn, with a journey time of 50 minutes.

The station is also served by several bus routes of the Verkehrsbetriebe Zürichsee und Oberland (VZO).

Layout

The station has three through tracks, with a side platform and an island platform providing platform faces on all three tracks. The line north towards Uster is double tracked, whilst the line south towards Rapperswil is single tracked. The line to Wald is single track, and diverges from the line north just north of the station, on the other side of a viaduct across the Jona river.

The principal station entrance and station buildings are on the south side of the station, as is the side platform. They are connected to the island platform, and a secondary entrance to the north of the station, by pedestrian subway.

Joweid Zahnradbahn

An interesting historical remnant to be found at Rüti station are the remains of a rack equipped siding that formerly served the Joweid works of the Maschinenfabrik Rüti to the north west of the station. These works predate the railway, being founded in 1842, and are located at a significantly lower level than the station.

The line, known as the Joweid Zahnradbahn or Joweid rack railway, opened in 1877 with a ruling gradient of 10.2% (1 in 9.8) and a minimum radius of only 80 m (260 ft). It was rebuilt with a new concrete viaduct in 1955. Several of the locomotives built to operate the line still exist, with two (one steam, one diesel) in use on the Rorschach Heiden Bergbahn.

Gallery

The front of the station The front of the station  The station seen from the west; the remains of the Joweid Zahnradbahn viaduct and track can be seen to the extreme left The station seen from the west; the remains of the Joweid Zahnradbahn viaduct and track can be seen to the extreme left  The station building across the station The station building across the station

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• Rüti ZH station on Swiss Federal Railway's web site