Räterschen railway station

Location
	Räterschen Location within Switzerland Räterschen Räterschen (Canton of Zurich)

Räterschen
Räterschen
	The station building in 2008
General information
Location	Elsau; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°29′55.219″N 8°47′41.921″E / 47.49867194°N 8.79497806°E
Elevation	475 m (1,558 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line	St. Gallen–Winterthur line
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways; Thurbo;
Other information
Fare zone	164 (ZVV)
Services
Location
Location
	Räterschen Location within Switzerland Räterschen Räterschen (Canton of Zurich)

Räterschen is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Zurich and municipality of Elsau. The station is located on the St. Gallen–Winterthur line and is served by trains on the Zurich S-Bahn lines S12 and S35.^[2]^[3]^[4] It is located within fare zone 164 of the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV).^[1]

Services

The following services stop at Räterschen:^[5]

Zurich S-Bahn: S12/S35: half-hourly service between Winterthur and Wil; the S12 continues from Winterthur to Brugg AG.

During weekends, the station is served by a nighttime S-Bahn service (SN21), offered by Ostwind fare network,^[6] and operated by Thurbo for St. Gallen S-Bahn.

St. Gallen S-Bahn SN21: hourly service to Winterthur and to St. Gallen (via Wil SG).

^ ^a ^b "Tarifzonen | Fare zones" (PDF). Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV). 15 December 2024. Retrieved 28 August 2025.
^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
^ "S-Bahn trains, buses and boats" (PDF). Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV). 9 December 2018. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Winterthur - St. Gallen" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
^ "Ostschweizer Nachtnetz – Noch mehr Zug und Bus am Wochenende". Tarifverbund Ostschweiz. Retrieved 28 August 2025.