Aargau Southern Railway

Aargau Southern Railway
SBB RABe 523 066 near Hendschiken
Timetable field :	652, 653
Route length:	51.96 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	13  ‰
Rupperswil – Immensee
Legend SBB route from Aarau 35.6 Rupperswil 374  m 35.6 SBB route to Brugg 31.9 Main SNB line from Zofingen – Suhr 31.9 Lenzburg wedge station 406  m 31.9 SBB Seetalbahn to Lucerne 30.2 63.9 Gexi left track 63.9 Line to Othmarsingen (left track) Underpass the route to Othmarsingen 30.0 64.1 Gexi right track 64.1 Line to Othmarsingen (right track) 65.2 Route from Othmarsingen 65.2 Hendschiken 419  m 67.9 Dottikon-Dintikon 423  m 69.5 Branch from the SBB substation 69.5 Dottikon substation 71.8 World Cup from Villmergen 71.8 Well 423  m Connection to BD to Dietikon 71.8 SBB- WB to Bremgarten West Waltenschwil (closed in 1997) 77.8 Boswil Bünzen 446  m 81.5 Muri AG 459  m 85.4 Benzenschwil 458  m 88.5 Mühlau 445  m 92.7 Sins 406  m 95.2 Oberrüti 403  m SBB route from Lucerne 99.4 Red cross 429  m SBB route to Zug - Thalwil 102.3 Bribing 454  m 103.3 Meierskappel-Risch 446  m SBB route from Lucerne 106.9 0.0 Immensee 460  m Gotthard Railway to Arth-Goldau
Brugg – Hendschiken
Legend Continuation from Zurich 0.0 Brugg 352  m SBB Bözberg route to Basel SBB route to Rupperswil – Aarau 1.2 Brugg South Line connecting the Bözberg route (Brugg bypass) 4.2 Lupfig 392  m Birrfeld container terminal 5.3 Birr 397  m SBB- Heitersberg route from Zurich 8.7 Othmarsingen 419  m Gexi route to Lenzburg – Aarau Underpass the route to Lenzburg – Aarau Gexi route from Aarau – Lenzburg 11.1 65.2 Hendschiken 419  m
Brugg connection line
Legend SBB- Bözberg route from Basel 35.9 Villnachern 403  m Aare Bridge (223 m) 32.5 Brugg North 32.4 to Brugg Bridge over the Aarau – Brugg route 31.23 1.07 from Brugg 1.2 Brugg South to Othmarsingen

The Aargauische Südbahn is a former Swiss railway company . As a joint subsidiary of the Swiss Central Railway (SCB) and the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB), it connected their routes from Aarau and Brugg with the starting point of the Gotthard Railway (GB) in Immensee.

history

From 1873 to 1882, the Swiss Central Railway (SCB) and the Swiss Northeast Railway (NOB) built a connection between their lines and the Gotthard Railway, which was then emerging . This Aargauische Südbahn operated by the Centralbahn ran from Rupperswil via Lenzburg , Wohlen and Rotkreuz to Immensee . The Gotthard Railway begins in Immensee (kilometer 0), but the locomotive change for freight trains usually took place in Rotkreuz from the start, and only in exceptional cases in Immensee. Branch lines led from Wohlen to Bremgarten and from Hendschiken to Brugg .

The routes were opened as follows:

• June 23, 1874: Rupperswil – Lenzburg – Hendschiken – Wohlen
• June 1, 1875: Wohlen– Muri
• September 1, 1876: Wohlen – Bremgarten West (as an independent company, Wohlen-Bremgarten-Bahn )
• December 1, 1881: Muri – Sins –Rotkreuz
• June 1, 1882: Rotkreuz – Immensee, together with the Gotthard railway line to Göschenen
• June 1, 1882: Hendschiken - Othmarsingen - Brugg AG
• May 26, 1969: Brugg connection line

In 1902, the Swiss Central Railway was integrated into the newly founded Swiss Federal Railway (SBB) together with the Aargau Southern Railway . In 1912, the SBB leased the Wohlen – Bremgarten West line to the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn (BD), which installed a third rail for its meter-gauge narrow-gauge railways. A planned route from Brugg via Böttstein to Waldshut was never built.

The connection line at Brugg, which enabled trains to pass directly from the Bözberg line to the Aargau Southern Railway, runs straight from the Aare Bridge over the tracks of the Brugg-Aarau line and the Brugg locomotive depot to the Southern Railway. Until the opening on May 26, 1969, all trains from Basel in the direction of Gotthard in Brugg had to change direction.

After the construction of the Heitersberg line (start of operation in 1975), the Rupperswil-Lenzburg-Othmarsingen section had to accommodate much more traffic; Most of the east-west traffic between Zurich and Bern now uses this direct route.

On December 12, 1980, the first five tracks of the "Dottikon compensation group" were put into operation, the remaining five tracks with the timetable change on May 31, 1981. The facility, also called "Dottikon Umspannanlage" or "Dottikon USA", has ten 750 meter long tracks for parking north-south freight trains and excess freight wagons.

On July 18, 1982, six people were killed and around a hundred injured in the collision of a freight train with a night express train Dortmund - Rimini near Othmarsingen.
→ Main article: Railway accident at Othmarsingen

traffic

Nowadays, the route from Brugg AG to Rotkreuz of the Aargau Southern Railway is mostly used by freight trains from the north via the Basel marshalling yard to the Gotthard and to Italy and is therefore an important route for the transit freight railway.

Regional passenger transport:

• The S26 runs every half hour between Rotkreuz and Lenzburg (every hour to Olten). At rush hour there are repeater trains between Lenzburg and Muri. Since the opening of the third Lenzburg - Gexi track, the trains that ended in Othmarsingen for a few years due to capacity reasons have been able to travel to Lenzburg again, where they offer connections to Aarau and Zurich.
• The Aarau-Lenzburg-Brugg route is served every hour by the S23 (Langenthal-Aarau-Lenzburg-Brugg-Baden).
• The S25 runs every hour from Brugg to Muri.
• During the rush hour from Monday to Friday, the S42 Muri-Othmarsingen-Dietikon-Zurich HB offers four pairs of trains every hour in the morning and evening.

In addition, in the event of delays, long-distance trains run on the Südbahn if there is a route conflict with the scheduled traffic on the route between Arth-Goldau and Zug.

photos

• 

  NPZ as S26 between Sins and Mühlau

• 

  Re 420 with a reserve composition between Mühlau and Sins

• 

  Re 482 with container train crosses the Reuss near Oberrüti

Web links

Commons : Aargauische Südbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Amateur 2/81, page 76