Suhr railway station explained

Style:Swiss Federal Railways
Suhr
Borough:Suhr
Country:Switzerland
Owned:Swiss Federal Railways
Connections:Busbetrieb Aarau buses[1]
Passengers:2,100 per weekday (does not include S14)[2]
Pass Year:2018
Map Type:Switzerland#Canton of Aargau
Map Size:300px

Suhr railway station (German: Bahnhof Suhr) is a railway station in the municipality of Suhr, in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is located at the intersection of the standard gauge Zofingen–Wettingen line of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and the gauge Schöftland–Aarau–Menziken line of Aargau Verkehr.

History

Suhr station was constructed by the Swiss National Railway (Schweizerische Nationalbahn; SNB). It was originally situated just to the west of the junction of the SNB's standard gauge Zofingen–Wettingen and Aarau–Suhr lines, opening with those lines in 1877. The station and former SNB lines became part of the Swiss Northeastern Railway (Schweizerische Nordostbahn; NOB) in 1878, and of the SBB in 1902. In 1904, the Wynental Railway (WTB) opened a metre gauge street tramway from Aarau to Menziken through Suhr, crossing the standard gauge line by a level crossing to the west of the station. In 1958 the WTB became part of the Wynental- und Suhrentalbahn (WSB) company.

In 2004, the SBB closed the stamdard gauge Aarau–Suhr line in order to permit the re-routing of the roughly parallel metre gauge line off surface streets. As part of this re-routing, a new underpass was constructed to take the narrow gauge line under the SBB's Zofingen to Wettingen line to the east of Suhr station, and new platforms built at the station providing direct interchange between the standard and metre gauge lines. The new route opened in 2010. In 2018, the WSB became part of the Aargau Verkehr AG (AVA) company.[3] [4] [5]

Services

The following services stop at Suhr:[6] [7]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Netzplan Region Aarau . A-Welle . 15 December 2019 . 12 July 2020.
  2. Web site: Passagierfrequenz . September 2019 . 12 July 2020 . Swiss Federal Railways.
  3. News: Widmer . Toni . 16 November 2010 . Suhr/Buchs - Wynental- und Suhrentalbahn ist endlich weg von der Strasse . de . . 20 November 2021.
  4. News: Die Mängelliste der WSB ist vier Seiten lang . Silvan . Hartmann . az Aargauer Zeitung . AZ Medien . Aarau . 14 Oct 2010 . 25 Mar 2012 . de . The list of shortcomings of the WSB is four pages long . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025511/http://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/aargau/aarau/die-maengelliste-der-wsb-ist-vier-seiten-lang-100012106 . 4 March 2016 . live.
  5. News: Helbling . Uls . Historisches Ereignis: Die Fusion aller Aargauer Bahnen ist geschafft . 19 June 2018 . . 6 March 2020 . de-ch . 20 June 2018 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180620080502/https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/aargau/aarau/historisches-ereignis-die-fusion-aller-aargauer-bahnen-ist-geschafft-132710490.
  6. Web site: Zofingen - Suhr - Lenzburg . Bundesamt für Verkehr . de . 16 October 2019 . 12 July 2020.
  7. Web site: Aarau - Menziken (S14) . Bundesamt für Verkehr . 27 September 2019 . 8 July 2020.