How would you translate "Flügelbahnhof"? The subject is the planned
"Flügelbahnhof Sihlpost" in Zurich. I have not been able to come up
with an adequate translation as I do not think "wing station" or
similar will do. What do you think?

Hello leander1-ga,

I searched for "Flügelbahnhof" on English web pages, and found the
following translations:

"wing"

"The Ludwig Maximilian University in Brief" [near end of section on
"Travel In and Around Munich", about 7/8 of the way down the page]
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
http://www.uni-muenchen.de/lmu-32211300/english/international/admission/gettingstarted.htm

"station annex"

"How to get to our Louisenthal/Tegernsee plant"
Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
http://www.gdm.de/eng/company/location/louisenthal.php4

Both "wing" and "station annex" seem appropriate.  In German-language
articles on the planned Flügelbahnhof Sihlpost, that is how the word
is used: it will be a wing or an annex of the Hauptbahnof.  See, for
example:

"Dass Fahrgäste, die im Flügelbahnhof Sihlpost mit der S-Bahn
ankommen, einige hundert Meter in den HB gehen müssen, um dort in
Fernzüge umzusteigen ...."
(The passenger who arrives on the subway at the Flügelbahnhof Sihlpost
must go a few hundred meters to the HB [Hauptbahnof] in order to
change to a long-distance train ....)

"Notbremse und neu planen", by C. Peider Filli (Tages-Anzeiger,
28.08.99, Seite: 29) [about 2/5 of the way down the page]
Peider Filli
http://peiderfilli.ch/presse/bis1999.htm#19970704Blick

If I were to choose one word, I would say "annex".

- justaskscott-ga


Search terms used on Google:

flügelbahnhof [clicked "search for English results only"]
"flügelbahnhof sihlpost"

Thank you!