[izacus]

One of the most mind blowing things for me was seeing that river Sihl flows through Hbf between the tracks.

[kmarc]

To be precise it flows above (and under) the tracks, as in, perpendicular, not "in between" parallel tracks.

BTW Hbf is a München thing, we call our beloved Zürich Hauptbahnhof just HB :-)

[joshvm]

Yes, my mistake - it's been a while! Definitely a local thing, and always with German pronunciation. There were a several words/phrases like that which got loaned into English. Doubly confusing because it wasn't always clear if the new word was Züri, regular Swiss-German, French but not Swiss-German, or High German. Had to be careful using new vocab in Germany!

[kmarc]

Not to mention that the locals here when referring to it while speaking English, totally translate it to "eɪʧ biː" sometimes.

Other times, in the middle English sentence, the German pronunciation pops up "ˈhaː ˈbeː"

Fun

[izacus]

> BTW Hbf is a München thing, we call our beloved Zürich Hauptbahnhof just HB :-)

I just reused the term to be consistent and less confusing. No need to be Bünzli about it :P

[wkat4242]

I think Hbf is a Germany thing not just Munich.

[1718627440]

Yes it is.

[murermader]

Can you explain where? Which tracks?

I have seen this comment on Reddit a few months ago, and some people were talking about it. They came to the conclusion that you cannot see the Sihl.

[sschueller]

It's between the underground tracks of Bahnhof Löwenstrasse and the above ground: [1]

There are a lot of little neat things. For example the elevators go sideways [2] because the platform in the underground Bahnhof is wider (this is due to safety regulations etc.) [3]

BTW, what is marked as Stadttunnel in [1] is the new bike tunnel [4] which has actually been there for many years as it was supposed to be a highway tunnel but was never opened (built many, many years ago).

[1] https://img.nzz.ch/2014/05/30/1.18312867.1401474596.jpg

[2] https://www.standseilbahnen.ch/images/8000/8000.06-zuerich-h...

[3] https://implenia.com/fileadmin/implenia.com/referenzen/durch...

[4] https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/web/de/mobilitaet/v...