Winterthur railway station
Winterthur is Switzerland's fifth busiest station, and is a major node between Switzerland's largest railway nucleus in Zürich and places in Eastern Switzerland (such as St. Gallen and Schaffhausen), as well as Germany (Munich), and Austria (Vorarlberg). The station is served by trains on Zürich's suburban S-Bahn network, as well as by regional and intercity trains, with most through passenger trains making a stop. It is also connected with Zürich's airport railway station Zürich Flughafen, which can be reached in about 15 minutes about every 8 minutes. Zürich Hauptbahnhof can be reached with up to 16 direct connections per hour and the fastest connection takes only 22 minutes (S12). The station has 9 standard gauge platforms (numbered 1-9).
Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn
Both railway lines are constructed to . They are unusual in that, whilst the "Sihltalbahn" is electrified using the standard Swiss mainline system of overhead lines at 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC, the "Uetlibergbahn" is electrified using overhead lines at 1200 V DC. In order to avoid conflict on the common section, the "Uetlibergbahn" uses an overhead line offset from the centre of the track, and its cars are equipped with specially designed pantographs to collect from this.