The S4 is a regional railway line of the Zurich S-Bahn

Zürich S-Bahn

The Zurich S-Bahn system is a network of rapid transit rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighboring cantons The Zurich S-Bahn system is a network of rapid transit rail lines that has been...

 on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network, in the canton of Zürich

Canton of Zürich

The Canton of Zurich has a population of . The canton is located in the northeast of Switzerland and the city of Zurich is its capital. The official language is German, but people speak the local Swiss German dialect called Züritüütsch...

, Switzerland.

Route

The line runs from Zürich Hauptbahnhof to Langnau

Langnau

There are several municipalities and communities have the name Langnau in Switzerland:*Langnau am Albis, in the canton of Zurich*Langnau bei Reiden, in the canton of Lucerne*Langnau im Emmental, in the canton of Bern...

-Gattikon and Sihlwald. It is operated by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn

Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn

The Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn – commonly abbreviated to SZU – is a railway company and transport network in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland...

 (SZU) in the Sihl Valley

Sihl Valley

Sihl Valley is a river valley and belongs to the Zimmerberg-Sihltal region located in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland. Commonly Sihltal is used as the name of the lower Sihl valley, i.e...

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The night service (SN4) of the S4 line, operating on weekends after midnight, runs between Zürich Hauptbahnhof and Langnau-Gattikon.

Stations

• Zürich Hauptbahnhof
• Zürich Selnau
  Zürich Selnau railway station
  Zürich Selnau, or Bahnhof Selnau, is a railway station on the Zürich S-Bahn system in Selnau in the centre of the Swiss city of Zürich...
  
  
• Zürich Giesshübel
  Zürich Giesshübel railway station
  Zurich Giesshübel is a railway station in the west of the Swiss city of Zurich, in the city's Alt-Wiedikon quarter. The station is served by line S4 of the Zürich S-Bahn, which is operated by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn . Trains on the same company's S10 line pass by the station without...
  
  
• Zürich Saalsporthalle-Sihlcity
  Zürich Saalsporthalle-Sihlcity railway station
  Zürich Saalsporthalle-Sihlcity is a railway station in the Swiss city of Zurich, adjacent to the Sihlcity shopping mall and the Saalsporthalle sports hall....
  
  
• Zürich Brunau
• Zürich Manegg
• Zürich Leimbach
  Zürich Leimbach railway station
  Zürich Leimbach is a railway station in the south-west of the Swiss city of Zurich, in the Leimbach quarter. The station is served by line S4 of the Zürich S-Bahn, which is operated by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn .- References :...
  
  
• Sood-Oberleimbach
• Adliswil
  Adliswil railway station
  Adliswil is a railway station in the municipality of Adliswil in the Swiss Canton of Zurich. The station is served by line S4 of the Zürich S-Bahn, which is operated by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn .- References :...
  
  
• Sihlau
• Wildpark-Höfli
• Langnau-Gattikon
• Sihlwald
  Sihlwald railway station
  Sihlwald is a railway station in the Sihl Valley in the Swiss Canton of Zurich.The station is the terminus of line S4 of the Zürich S-Bahn, which is operated by the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn , although many S4 trains terminate at Langnau-Gattikon, one stop nearer Zurich...
  
  
• Sihlbrugg
  Sihlbrugg railway station
  Sihlbrugg is a railway station in the village of Sihlbrugg in the Swiss Canton of Zurich.The station is a junction point between the Swiss Federal Railways line from Zug to Zurich Hauptbahnhof via Thalwil, and the Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn line to Zurich via Sihlwald...
  
  (service suspended since 2006)

Rolling stock

All services are operated by Sihltal Zürich Uetliberg Bahn Re 456 class

SBB-CFF-FFS Re 450

The Re 450 is a four axle electric locomotive, used by Swiss Federal Railways on S-Bahn services in Zürich. Under the old Swiss class system, they would have been known as Re 4/4V. They are usually found working with fixed formations of three double-deck passenger carriages, the rear-most of which...

 locomotives pushing or pulling

Push-pull train

Push–pull is a mode of operation for locomotive-hauled trains allowing them to be driven from either end.A push–pull train has a locomotive at one end of the train, connected via some form of remote control, such as multiple-unit train control, to a vehicle equipped with a control cab at the other...

 double-deck passenger carriages.

The locomotives, which are numbered Re 456 551 and 552, began life as SBB-CFF-FFS

SBB-CFF-FFS

Swiss Federal Railways and SFR are not in official use) is the national railway company of Switzerland headquartered in Bern. Formerly a government institution, it is since 1999 a special stock corporation with all shares held by the Swiss Confederation or the Swiss cantons...

 Re 450 class locomotives (nos Re 450 067 and 070). They were transferred to the SZU in 2008.

Scheduling

The train frequency is 20 minutes at off-peak times and 10 minutes peak at peak, with one train per hour servicing Sihlwald. The trip takes 21 minutes from Zürich HB to Langnau-Gattikon, and 25 minutes from Zürich HB to Sihlwald.

See also

• Rail transport in Switzerland
  Rail transport in Switzerland
  The railways of Switzerland include and narrow gauge .*Network size: 5,063 km*standard gauge: , of which is electrified.*narrow gauge: , of which is electrified...
  
  
• Trams in Zürich