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The new station was the initially the terminus of the Swiss Northern Railway, more often called the "Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn", which opened on 9 August 1847 and linked Zürich with Baden. Initially the railway lines in the station were laid to a gauge of , perhaps because the same gauge was used at the contemporaneous and nearby Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway.