Aargau Southern Railway (german: Aargauische Südbahn) is a former railway company in Switzerland. Between 1873 and 1882, the

Schweizerische Centralbahn 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 190 ...

(SCB) and the

Schweizerische Nordostbahn 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 th ...

(NOB) jointly built a connecting line to the

Gotthardbahn The Gotthard railway (german: Gotthardbahn; it, Ferrovia del Gottardo) is the Swiss trans-alpine railway line from northern Switzerland to the canton of Ticino. The line forms a major part of an important international railway link between nort ...

. The line was operated by the SCB and ran from

Rupperswil Rupperswil is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History A partially preserved Roman era tile kiln from the 2nd Century was discovered in 1911. There is also evidence of the emergence of a late ...

to Immensee. Branch lines ran from

Wohlen Wohlen is a municipality in the district of Bremgarten in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History The earliest known settlements in Wohlen date from the late Hallstatt era (600-500 BC). This settlement left two clusters of burial moun ...

to Bremgarten and from

Hendschiken Hendschiken is a municipality in the district of Lenzburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland. History Hendschiken is first mentioned in 1160 as ''Hentschikon''. During the Middle Ages, the major landowners in Hendschiken included Muri Ab ...

Brugg , neighboring_municipalities = Gebenstorf, Habsburg, Hausen, Holderbank, Lupfig, Riniken, Rüfenach, Schinznach, Untersiggenthal, Villigen, Villnachern, Veltheim, Windisch , twintowns = Rottweil (Germany) , website ...

History

The routes were opened in this order: * 23 June 1874: Rupperswil -

Lenzburg Lenzburg is a town in the central region of the Swiss canton Aargau and is the capital of the Lenzburg District. The town, founded in the Middle Ages, lies in the Seetal valley, about 3 kilometres south of the Aare river. Lenzburg and the neigh ...

* 1 June 1875: Wohlen - Muri * 1 September 1876: Wohlen - Bremgarten West * 1 December 1881: Muri - Immensee * 1 June 1882: Hendschiken - Brugg In 1902, the Aargauische Südbahn (together with the SCB and NOB) became part of the

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 ...

Lines

Rupperswil–Immensee

Brugg–Hendschiken

Wohlen–Bremgarten West

Notes

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Aargau Southern Railway Defunct railway companies of Switzerland 1874 establishments in Switzerland 1902 disestablishments in Switzerland