Kloten Balsberg railway station
Kloten Balsberg | ||||||||||||||||
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Shelter at the station in 2013 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Kloten Balsberg, Kloten ZH, Switzerland | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°26′31″N 8°34′15″E / 47.441985°N 8.570763°E | |||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 440 m (1,440 ft) | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Line | Zurich–Winterthur | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 Side platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| VBZ / VBG 10 12 | ||||||||||||||||
| PostAuto 510 | ||||||||||||||||
| Zurich trams 10 / 12 in 0:02h to/from Zurich Airport | ||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 121 (ZVV) | |||||||||||||||
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Kloten Balsberg is a railway station in the municipality of Kloten, in the Swiss canton of Zurich. It lies within fare zone 121 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV). The station is located on a variant of the multi-stranded Zurich–Winterthur railway line and is served by S-Bahn line S7. It is an interchange point between the Zurich S-Bahn and the Stadtbahn Glattal light rail system.
The station was originally situated on the Wettingen–Effretikon line of the Swiss National Railway (Schweizerische Nationalbahn; SNB), which opened in 1877. This SNB became bankrupt in 1878. The line was then taken over by the Swiss Northeastern Railway (Schweizerische Nordostbahn; NOB), becoming part of their Zurich–Winterthur line. It has been part of the network of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) since 1902. Although the station is situated only 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the main terminal of Zurich Airport, it was bypassed by the opening, in 1980, of a new line directly serving the Zurich Airport railway station in the basement of that terminal. Since 2008, the Stadtbahn Glattal has provided a new direct route to the airport.