★ 4K 🇨🇭Zürich HB - Pfäffikon ZH - Wetzikon cab ride Switzerland [06.2021]

Join us today on a train from Zürich main station into the Zürich highlands. In Effretikon (16:20), we branch off the mainline onto the Kempttalbahn, which was opened to traffic in 1876. Keeping the opening dates of European railways in mind while travelling is often quite mesmerising.

As a railway enthusiast, I thoroughly enjoy lines that show signs of their age. This is one of those lines, with many older catenary masts and ageing bridges. Unfortunately I couldn't find as much information about some of the bridges as I would've liked to include.

This is the first video on this channel in a first generation Zürich S-Bahn train. We find ourselves in the locomotive (Re 450 - the first large series of GTO thyristor locomotives built in Switzerland). The microphone was place in the engine room, which enables us to clearly hear the unique sound the thyristors make. A train consists of a locomotive and 3 double decker carriages, one of which was newly built to enable wheelchair access in accordance with new standards. The carriages that were replaced were formed into peak hour trains, with a pair of specially adapted Re 420 locomotives, as seen at 27:59.

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