Killwangen-Spreitenbach is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

in the municipality of Killwangen in the

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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 ...

. As the name suggests, the station also serves the adjacent municipality of Spreitenbach. The station is located on the Zurich to Olten main line, just east of the point where the newer route via the

Heitersberg Tunnel The Heitersberg railway line (''Heitersbergstrecke'') is a Swiss railway line between the stations of Killwangen-Spreitenbach and Aarau on the east-west main line between Zürich and Bern. The main structure of the line is the 4,929 metre-long He ...

diverges from the original line via

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. The station is served by services S11 and S12 of the Zurich S-Bahn. In 2022, the station is planned to become the western terminus of the

Limmattal light rail line The Limmattal light rail line (german: Limmattalbahn) is a metre gauge light rail line with an alignment running through the Limmat Valley, in the Swiss cantons of Aargau and Zürich to the west of the city of Zürich. The line is long, serves ...

from Zürich Altstetten station, providing a more local service along the

Limmat Valley The Limmat Valley (German: ''Limmattal'') is a river valley and a region in the cantons of Zürich and Aargau in Switzerland. Geography The Limmat () is a long river located in the cantons of Zürich (ZH) and Aargau (AG). It is the c ...

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Railway stations in the canton of Aargau Swiss Federal Railways stations Spreitenbach {{Switzerland-railstation-stub