S15

S15 may refer to:

S₁₅ may refer to :

and also a shortening or designation for :

Frauenfeld–Wil railway

The Frauenfeld–Wil railway (German: Frauenfeld–Wil-Bahn, FW) is a metre gauge (3 ft 3 ³⁄₈ in gauge) railway line in Switzerland, which connects the town of Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau, to the town of Wil in the canton of St. Gallen, following the valley of the Murg river. The line is owned and operated by the Frauenfeld-Wil-Bahn AG, forms part of the Tarifverbund Ostwind, and operates as service S15 of the St. Gallen S-Bahn.

Plans to build a tramway between Frauenfeld and Wil were first made in the early 1850s. The rail line opened in 1887, and was electrified in 1921. Around 1.25 million passengers use the line every year.

Locals call the train "Wilerbähnli" or "Wiler Bähnli".

Operation

Trains run every 30 minutes, requiring 3 trains in operation at once, with trains crossing at the stations of Matzingen and Schweizerhof.

In 2011 the railway company ordered five new ABe4/8 low floor trains from Stadler Rail, to replace the old trains. However, there are plans for a 15 minutes interval in future and therefore some of the old trains will be retained. The first train was delivered in March 2013 and was tested for 3 months. It went into regular service on 26 June 2013.

S15 (ZVV)

The S15 is a regional railway line of the S-Bahn Zürich on the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV), Zürich transportation network, and is one of the network's lines connecting the cantons of Zürich and St. Gallen.

Route

The line runs from Affoltern am Albis, in the south of the canton of Zürich, over the Zug–Affoltern am Albis–Zurich railway line as far as Zurich Hauptbahnhof before continuing via Zürich Stadelhofen and Uster to Rapperswil.

There are no stops between Stadelhofen and Uster – i.e. Stettbach, Dübendorf, Schwerzenbach and Nänikon-Greifensee; Aathal-Seegräben is not a regular stop, either.

History

The line was opened between Rapperswil and Birmensdorf on 10 December 2006, following line improvements.

On 9 December 2007, the line was extended from Birmensdorf to Affoltern am Albis.

Stations