Schaffhausen railway station

• Seelinie: Schaffhausen -Rorschach
• Rheinfallbahn: Schaffhausen -Winterthur
• High Rheinbahn: Constance - Schaffhausen -Basel Bad Bf

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Schaffhausen Train Station is next to the breakpoint Herblingen the larger of the two railway stations of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. According to Land Registry entry he is 65 percent owned the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB ) and 35 percent of Deutsche Bahn (DB). It is served by trains of the owners, but also from those of Thurbo and serves as a border station between Switzerland and Germany.

• 3.1 Highway
• 3.2 Regional Transport
• 3.3 trolleybus and bus service

History

Opening

The Schaffhausen train station was put into operation on 16 April 1857. On this day the Swiss Northeastern Railway (NOB ) opened the Rheinfallbahn about Andelfingen to Winterthur. The Rheinfallbahn had been taken a few months before it opened, on 4 November 1856 by the NOB. She straightened rail links via Winterthur to Zurich, a novel and Brugg or horn.

The terminus in Schaffhausen was indeed at its present location, was then only a provisional, since erupted between the NOB and the initiators of the Rheinfallbahn, Heinrich Moser, a tangible dispute over the train station Location: The NOB was on the present site, while Moser began for a railway station on the Rhine. Only twelve years after the commissioning of the Rheinfallbahn, 1869, was the current station to the plans of the NOB - house architect Jakob Friedrich Wanner, who was responsible for station buildings as Weinfelden, Frauenfeld, Winterthur and the Zurich HB, built.

Baden State Railways

On 15 June 1863, the Schaffhausen station was connected to the cross-border traffic, as the Baden State Railways in 1863 took the final stage of the Upper Rhine Railway between Waldshut and consistency in operation. The section Waldshut -Basel Baden station went into operation in 1856. About the Upper Rhine Railway, the Black Forest Railway and the Gäubahn Schaffhausen later received also a connection to Stuttgart.

Seelinie to Konstanz

On November 1, 1894, the NOB opened with the Feuerthalen Etzwilen - section a portion of today's Seelinie about Kreuzlingen and Konstanz to Rorschach. The short section of the Rhine bridge Feuerthalen and Emmersberg tunnel was not completed at this time because there was a delay in construction on the construction of Emmersberg tunnel because of a Tagbruchs. This remaining portion was put into operation on April 2, 1895. Along with the track Etzwilen - Constance, by the Swiss National Railway (SNB ) was opened to traffic in 1875, now there was a continuous connection to Constance. The lake line leads from the north parallel to the singing coming from high Rheinbahn into the station.

Route to Bülach

Although the Rheinfallbahn was seen as the Swiss continued to DB line from singing, she never attained international significance, because 1897 was with the railway line Eglisau - Neuhausen a rail link, which in Eglisau to the railway line Winterthur - Bülach -Koblenz and then in Bülach to the Bülach rain mountain railway joined and significantly faster direct flight to Zurich ( Zurich Hauptbahnhof) and the Gotthard Railway represented. The cross-border rail traffic rolled mostly about Bülach, while the line usually only meaning flowing not through the wine country in transport.

Station extension

The growing freight required 1895/96 a large station extension. Here, the station got its shape, which were adjusted until the 1950/60er years the new needs.

1901, the tramway was opened in Schaffhausen, led them to Neuhausen Rhine Falls and in 1905 was added to the overland tram to Schleitheim. In 1964, the route to Schleitheim was decommissioned in 1966 that to Neuhausen, which served as the basis of today's trolley bus network.

Bombing of April 1, 1944

The town of Schaffhausen was bombed on April 1, 1944 by American airmen. In the south wing of the station building a direct hit struck and destroyed the station and dispatch office with the ticket counter. 18 people died in and around the station. Next many people were seriously injured. The damaged south wing was rebuilt in the years 1945/46, to a design by architect Walter Henne.

From 1950

Since 1866, led a footbridge in the axis of the lion narrow alley across the tracks. In 1956, she was replaced by an underpass. 1963 the station with the construction of the marshalling yard Herblingertal was started north. In the 1990s, was Schaffhausen maintenance of intercity line Nürnberg Hbf / Stuttgart - Milano Centrale, which, however, was gradually adjusted to 2006. End of the 20th century, the narrow Südunterführung was expanded generous and disabled. Some premises of the station building were no longer needed by the railway companies. It stores were established. Between 1999 and 2008, the Cisalpino operated the station until 2006, cross-border connections between Stuttgart and Milan, then with a pair of trains daily to Trieste Centrale. In parallel, ICE compounds have been introduced with ICE T- tilting trains between Stuttgart and Zurich, which initially wrong about the Rheinfallbahn to serve also Winterthur, but then merged with the Cisalpino trains to a new ICE line Stuttgart- Zurich via Bülach were. End of March 2010, the ICE trains have been replaced by SBB Euro City cars since the ICE-T suffered Achsproblemen. The journey had extended only minimally due to the change of engines in singing. Since then, the trains run as Intercity trains. The prolonged daily to Frankfurt train pair was retained. A shift back to ICE-T is scheduled as soon as they are allowed to drive arc quickly.

With the accession of Switzerland to the Schengen Agreement in 2008, the role of the border between Switzerland and Germany although smaller and customs crossing was canceled at the station, the Grenzwachtposten remains, however, and checks on the trains it will continue to be made.

From 2010

Having been in the last few years the station building, the switch equipment, the subways and platforms have been refurbished and renewed, a capacity expansion is planned for the coming years. Within the framework of the Federal Law on connecting the Eastern and Western Switzerland to the European high-speed rail network HGV rail line Eglisau - Neuhausen was partially developed on two tracks. This allowed from December 2012, the introduction of the half-hourly fast train connection to Zurich.

• IR / IC Zurich HB Schaffhausen hourly, without intermediate stops; every two hours as the IC continues to Stuttgart, through binding of IR to Bern
• RE Zurich HB Schaffhausen hourly, half-hourly offset from the IR / IC, with intermediate stops in Zurich Oerlikon and Bülach

The successor program to train 2000 so-called " Future development of rail infrastructure ZEB ", sees the Schaffhausen Train ago as a hub. After opening of the new diameter line into the main station Zurich in 2015, the trains run mostly from Schaffhausen to X.15 and X.45 clock clock. This enables slim connections in Winterthur Zurich HB and HB. In addition, the installation of an additional switch and signals in the stations allows Neuhausen Rhine Falls Schaffhausen and a more rapid headway. The work will take place in the years 2014/15.

The fourth part of the supplement S -Bahn Zurich, which is to be implemented until 2018, brings changes and improvements for the Schaffhausen Train Station.

As part of the Federal Agglomerationsgrogramms the S-Bahn Schaffhausen to improve rail transport within the canton and bring, for example, the municipalities Thayngen and Neunkirch the quarter hour to Schaffhausen. Additionally diameter lines are to be created, for example, should the lake line of Stein am Rhein be linked to the high Rheinbahn to the border in Erzingen. The costs for the expansion of the railway station of Schaffhausen as part of the S -Bahn Schaffhausen totaled 9.7 million francs. Of the agglomeration federal program takes over 3.47 million Swiss francs. The remaining sum must accept the canton and the town of Schaffhausen in a co-financing half each. The expansion provides, inter alia, the creation of a sixth station platforms along the Hospital Road. On 25 September 2011, voters in the canton of Schaffhausen approved with a yes - share of 76 percent of the credit line to the S-Bahn Schaffhausen.

The new platform 6 was put into operation in December 2012.

Worth mentioning

The station is one of the 23 stations of the SBB, which are marketed under the slogan more Train Station. In addition to a k kiosk, a pharmacy, a bakery and a small grocery store located in the railway station, the station buffet and one travel center of the SBB and DB.

Travelers DB between singing and Waldshut pass through the station ( Swiss territory ), without having to pay tariffs of the SBB.

Traffic

In the long-distance transport of the station is serviced regularly by two alternating relations, each one Intercity and inter-regional, regional transport of Swiss side with four lines of the Zurich S-Bahn and S-Bahn St. Gallen, of German ago with two lines, the lead on the high Rhine railway.

Long-distance traffic

• IC ( Frankfurt Hbf -Darmstadt Hbf -Heidelberg Hbf ) Stuttgart Hbf - Singen ( Hohentwiel ) - Schaffhausen- Bülach - Zurich HB ( every two hours by SBB and DB)
• IR Schaffhausen Zurich HB ( every two hours by SBB)
• RE Schaffhausen- Bülach -Oerlikon - Zurich HB (hourly by SBB)

Regional Transport

• RB Schaffhausen- Erzingen (DB and SBB GmbH / Thurbo )

• S 11 Zurich HB - HB Winterthur - Schaffhausen (SBB, runs only during peak hours )
• S 16 ( Thayngen - Winterthur HB - ) Zurich Airport - Zurich HB - Herrliberg field miles ( - mi ) ( SBB)
• S 22 Bülach - Schaffhausen - Singen ( Hohentwiel ) ( Thurbo )
• S 33 Winterthur HB - Andelfingen - Schaffhausen ( Thurbo )

• S 8 Nesslau- Neu St. Johann- Herisau -St. Gall - Roman -Kreuzlingen - Schaffhausen ( Thurbo )

• IRE Basel Bad Bf- Waldshut- Schaffhausen- Singen- Radolfzell -Überlingen - Friedrichshafen Stadt- Ulm Hauptbahnhof
• RB Singen- Schaffhausen

Trolleybus and bus service

Schaffhausen Train Station is the central bus station of the city and canton of Schaffhausen. It stopped at the Bahnhofstrasse in front of the station building all bus lines (except line 7) of the transport companies Schaffhausen ( VBSH ). The Trolley bus route to Neuhausen Rhine Falls stops at the station. Right next to the train station, the new bus station was opened in 2004. From him are buses to several municipalities of the canton of Schaffhausen and adjacent areas of the Canton of Zurich as well as in southern Germany. The bus station is served by the company SchaffhausenBus, SüdbadenBus GmbH and bus.

Trivia

The German Kaiser Wilhelm II paid in September 1912, Switzerland from a large state visit. The last night before his return journey he spent in Schaffhausen. His Court Train met on September 7, 1912 at 2:15 clock at Schaffhausen train station and was stopped on track 5. At that time it was common for royals spent the night in their train at a railway station. The train was strictly guarded by the army and the cantonal police. At 7:50 clock left the Imperial Court train to Switzerland in the direction of Constance.