Suhr railway station

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 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Schöftland–Aarau–Menziken line of Aargau Verkehr.^[3]

Suhr
The station building in 2013
General information
Location	Suhr Switzerland
Coordinates	47°22′17.861″N 8°4′56.176″E
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Schöftland–Aarau–Menziken line Zofingen–Wettingen line Aarau–Suhr line (closed 2004)
Train operators	Aargau Verkehr Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	Busbetrieb Aarau buses[1]
Passengers
2018	2,100 per weekday (does not include S14)[2]
Services
Preceding station Aargau S-Bahn Following station Buchs AG towards Schöftland S14 Gränichen Töndler towards Menziken Oberentfelden towards Zofingen S28 Hunzenschwil towards Lenzburg
Location Suhr Location within Switzerland Show map of Switzerland Suhr Suhr (Canton of Aargau) Show map of Canton of Aargau

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.^[4][5]

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.^[6][7][8]

Services

The following services stop at Suhr:^[9][10]

• Aargau S-Bahn:
  • S14: service every fifteen minutes between Schöftland, Aarau WSB and Menziken, operated by AVA.
  • S28: half-hourly service between Zofingen and Lenzburg, operated by SBB.

References

1. "Netzplan Region Aarau" (PDF). A-Welle. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
2. "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
3. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
4. Wägli & Jacobi 2010, p. 19.
5. Walker 1964.
6. Widmer, Toni (16 November 2010). "Suhr/Buchs - Wynental- und Suhrentalbahn ist endlich weg von der Strasse". Aargauer Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 20 November 2021.
7. Hartmann, Silvan (14 Oct 2010). "Die Mängelliste der WSB ist vier Seiten lang" [The list of shortcomings of the WSB is four pages long]. az Aargauer Zeitung (in German). Aarau: AZ Medien. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 Mar 2012.
8. Helbling, Uls (19 June 2018). "Historisches Ereignis: Die Fusion aller Aargauer Bahnen ist geschafft". Aargauer Zeitung (in Swiss High German). Archived from the original on 20 June 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
9. "Zofingen - Suhr - Lenzburg" (PDF) (in German). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 16 October 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
10. "Aarau - Menziken (S14)" (PDF). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 8 July 2020.

Bibliography

• Wägli, Hans G.; Jacobi, Sébastien (2010). Schienennetz Schweiz - Bahnprofil Schweiz CH+ [Swiss rail network] (in German) (3rd ed.). Zürich: AS Verlag. ISBN 978-3-909111-74-9.
• Walker, Peter J. (1964). Rails through the Suhre and Wyna Valleys, Switzerland. London: Light Railway Transport League. ISBN 0900433256.

External links

• Media related to Suhr railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Suhr railway station – SBB