The Brugg–Hendschiken railway line is a standard gauge railway line located in the

canton of Aargau Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (german: Kanton Aargau; rm, Chantun Argovia; french: Canton d'Argovie; it, Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capita ...

, in Switzerland. It runs from to . The line runs north-south and interchanges with several other lines, including the Rupperswil–Immensee,

Heitersberg Heitersberg Pass aka "The Dabiah Passage" (el. 657 m.) is a mountain pass in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. In 1975, a rail tunnel was opened under the pass from Mellingen to Killwangen Killwangen is a municipality in the district of ...

/ Zofingen–Wettingen, Baden–Aarau, and

Bözberg Bözberg is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Brugg (district), Brugg in Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau in Switzerland. It ceased to exist in 1873, when it was split into the two new municipalities Oberböz ...

. The

Aargau Southern Railway Aargau Southern Railway (german: Aargauische Südbahn) is a former railway company in Switzerland. Between 1873 and 1882, the Schweizerische Centralbahn (SCB) and the Schweizerische Nordostbahn (NOB) jointly built a connecting line to the Gotth ...

opened the line in 1882 and it has belonged to

Swiss Federal Railways Swiss Federal Railways (german: link=no, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, ''SBB''; french: link=no, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, ''CFF''; it, Ferrovie federali svizzere, ''FFS'') is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usuall ...

since 1902.

History

The

completed the line on 1 June 1882. It was the final line built by that company. The line passed to

in 1902 after the Aargau Southern Railway, along with its corporate parents the

Swiss Central Railway The Swiss Central Railway (''Schweizerische Centralbahn''; SCB or S.C.B.) was one of the five major private railway companies of Switzerland. The SCB with a track length of 332 kilometres was integrated into the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) in 19 ...

and

Swiss Northeastern Railway The Swiss Northeastern Railway (''Schweizerische Nordostbahn''; NOB) was an early railway company in Switzerland. It also operated shipping on Lake Constance (''Bodensee'') and Lake Zürich. Until the merger of the Western Swiss Railways into the ...

, were nationalized. SBB electrified the line at in 1927, completing the work on 5 May. Double-tracking came in stages: in the area around Brugg (1969), between and (1975), and finally between Othmarsingen and Brugg in 1994.

Route

The line begins at , where it connects with the Baden–Aarau, and

lines. It runs south to Othmarsingen and a junction with the

and Zofingen–Wettingen lines. At Hendschiken it joins with another former Aargau Southern line, the Rupperswil–Immensee.

Operation

The primary passenger service on the line comes from the

Aargau S-Bahn The Aargau S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Aargau or german: S-Bahnen Aargau) is an S-Bahn-style regional rail network serving the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. History Upon the timetable change on 14 December 2008, an S-Bahn numbering system was intro ...

S25, which runs hourly between and Brugg AG. This is supplemented by the S23, which runs hourly between and . The S23 uses the line between Othmarsingen and Brugg, combining with the S25 for half-hourly service between those stations. In addition, the rush-hour S42 of the

Zürich S-Bahn The Zürich S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Zürich) system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zürich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, ...

, which operates between Muri AG and

Zürich Hauptbahnhof Zürich Hauptbahnhof (often shortened to Zürich HB, or just HB; ''Zürich Main Station'' or ''Zürich Central Station'') is the largest railway station in Switzerland. Zürich is a major railway hub, with services to and from across Switzerland a ...

, uses the line between Hendschiken and Othmarsingen.

Notes

References

External links

2021 timetable
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