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).
Schweinfurt–Meiningen railway
Since 2004 rail services on the line between Schweinfurt and Meiningen have been operated by the Erfurter Bahn (EB) whose Lower Franconia Shuttle ("Unterfranken-Shuttle"), line EB 4, runs every two hours between Schweinfurt and Mellrichstadt from Monday to Friday and, on Saturday am and Sunday pm, almost hourly. In addition DB "Regionalexpress" trains run every two hours from Erfurt to Schweinfurt (RE 7) (on this section from Ritschenhausen). Since 2008 the DB has used tilting trains which attain speeds of up to 160 km/h. 
The Erfurter Bahn also operates the EB 5 "Regionalbahn" route (the Franconian Saale Valley railway or Fränkische Saaletalbahn) using the "Unterfranken-Shuttle" on the Schweinfurth–Eberhausen line and running it through to Bad Kissingen and Gemünden am Main. The „Unterfranken-Shuttle“ also calls at Schweinfurt-Mitte and Schweinfurt-Stadt via Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof. The DB uses Class 612 DMUs exclusively whilst the Erfurter Bahn operates Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1 multiples.