Adliswil is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

in the

Sihl Valley Sihl Valley ( German: ''Sihltal'') is a river valley and belongs to the Zimmerberg-Sihltal region located in the Horgen (district), district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Commonly ''Sihltal'' is used as the name of the Lower Sihl ...

, and the municipality of

Adliswil Adliswil is a town and a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The official language of Adliswil is (the Swiss variety of Standard) German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the A ...

, in the

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Canton of Zürich The canton of Zurich is an administrative unit (Swiss canton, canton) of Switzerland, situated in the northeastern part of the country. With a population of (as of ), it is the most populous canton of Switzerland. Zurich is the ''de facto'' Capi ...

. The station is on the Sihltal line, which is operated by the

Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn The ''Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn AG'' () – commonly abbreviated to SZU – is a public transport company and network in the Cantons of Switzerland, Swiss canton of canton of Zurich, Zurich. The network comprises the Uetliberg railway line, ...

(SZU). The station is a short walking distance away from the

valley station The valley station is the lower terminal of an aerial lift, cable car, gondola lift, chairlift, rack railway or ski lift. The valley station is the counterpart of a top station. Cable cars may be boarded at both stations. The valley station is al ...

of the

aerial lift An aerial lift, also known as a cable car or ropeway, is a means of cable transport in which ''cabins'', ''cars'', ''Gondola lift, gondolas'', or Chairlift, open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of one or more Wire rope, cables. Aeria ...

Felsenegg Felsenegg (el. ) is a vantage point in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. Geography Felsenegg is located some to the southwest of the city of Zürich on the Albis chain, between the municipalities of Stallikon and Adliswil. The hillto ...

and the Albis ridge. A panoramic footpath runs along that ridge from the upper terminus to Uetliberg station on the SZU's Uetliberg line.

Layout

The station has an

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

. It is located a ca. walk east of the valley station of the Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car, which provides a link to Felsenegg hill. It can be reached via the pedestrian bridge crossing the railway line.

Services

The station is served by the following

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services:

References

External links

* * Railway stations in the canton of Zürich {{Switzerland-railstation-stub