Brugg train station

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Brugg
Main building of the station
Main building of the station
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 5
abbreviation BG
IBNR 8500309
opening September 29, 1856
Profile on SBB.ch No. 309
Architectural data
architect Jakob Friedrich Wanner
location
City / municipality Brugg
Canton Aargau
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 658 058  /  259 150 coordinates: 47 ° 28 '50 "  N , 8 ° 12' 32"  O ; CH1903:  658058  /  259.15 thousand
Height ( SO ) 352  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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The Brugg station of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is the station of the city of Brugg in the canton of Aargau . It was opened in 1856 and until 1863 was on the territory of the neighboring municipality of Windisch . Today the municipal boundary runs partly along the edge of the track field. The Brugger Bahnhof is the junction of three railway lines . The most important is the Bözberg route between Zurich and Basel . The other routes lead through the Aare valley to Aarau and through the Birrfeld to Lenzburg .

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InterRegios operate to Basel , Bern , Zurich HB and Zurich Airport . The S29 of the Aargau S-Bahn runs from Turgi via Brugg to Aarau and continues every hour to Olten - Sursee . The S23 of the Aargau S-Bahn runs from Baden via Brugg, Lenzburg , Aarau and Olten to Langenthal. Brugg is the end of the line S12 of the Zurich S-Bahn . Since December 2016, the S25 has also been running, which enables a free connection from Brugg to Freiamt .

Numerous postbus lines ran into the region from the northeastern end of Bahnhofplatz . These led to Birr , via Birmenstorf and Rütihof to the train stations Mellingen Heitersberg, Döttingen , Frick , Laufenburg , Linn , Birrhard - Mellingen , Mönthal , Remigen , Scherz , Thalheim and Bad Zurzach . There were also two local PostBus routes to Brugg-Bodenacker and Unterwindisch. With the opening of the second bus station on the south-western side of the newly built campus of the Northwestern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences , traffic was reorganized. The Brugg train station has a mobility car sharing service.

Long-distance transport

Regional traffic

  • RegioExpress Wettingen - Baden - Turgi - Brugg - Wildegg - Aarau - Dulliken - Olten

Zurich S-Bahn

Aargau S-Bahn

Postbus

from the station / center

from the station / campus stop

In addition, three night bus routes N40 N42 N43 run in different directions in the region at the weekend .

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A S-Bahn train of line 12 enters the station

The station building, made of shell limestone in the style of historicism , is in three parts: The central part is provided with a columned arcade and two distinctive semicircular stair towers that are reminiscent of the former Bruges city wall. Attached to it are two more simple side wings.

The station facility is arranged on an axis running from northeast to southwest and consists of seven through tracks. Track 1 is the house platform; this is followed by two pairs of tracks, each of which is located on a covered central platform. Trains to and from Basel run on tracks 1 and 2. Trains on the Zurich - Lenzburg - Aarau axis run on tracks 3, 4 and 5, while those on the Zurich - Birrfeld - Aarau and Freiamt - Birrfeld - Brugg axis can only use the Drive tracks 4 and 5. The S12 trains (Brugg - Winterthur - Schaffhausen / Wil) end and turn alternately on tracks 2 and 5. Tracks 6 and 7 have no platforms and are used for goods traffic, for shunting and as a parking area. It is only possible to enter platform 8 from the Zurich side or only exit in this direction. Tracks 9 and 10 are only accessible for shunting trips.

In addition, there are three groups of tracks (Caeser, Dora and Emil groups) that serve as parking facilities for train compositions. An SBB fire extinguishing and rescue train (LRZ) is on standby in one of the Dora tracks .

There are two underpasses: the south-west connects the station square with the platforms and the Brugg Campus bus station, the north-east connects the entire train station, the Neumarkt Brugg and the Windischer side.

To the southwest of the station, between the lines to Aarau and Lenzburg, is the site of a former locomotive depot, the oldest still existing railway depot in Switzerland. A long shed and a ring shed with a turntable have been preserved . Several steam locomotives from SBB Historic and the Mikado Association are parked in the long shed . The Bahnpark Region Brugg Foundation is committed to the long-term preservation of the Remise.

The Bözberg line and the Birrfeld line are connected by a viaduct that crosses the line to Aarau and the Lokremisen area at right angles. This double-track section is also known as "VL Brugg". This connection makes turning maneuvers in the station superfluous and is only used by freight trains traveling on the Gotthard axis between Germany and Italy .

The station is controlled by an Alcatel / Thales Elektra 2 electronic interlocking.

The Brugg station was also a remote control center, from where the stations on the Bözberg line to Möhlin as well as Sisseln, Laufenburg, Lupfig and Turgi were gradually monitored. In 2008 the remote control center was dissolved; the workplaces were relocated to the central signal box in Basel. Since 23 August 2015, the station has been remote-controlled from the operations center in Olten.

history

Station staff in 1868

The station was opened on September 29, 1856, when the Schweizerische Nordostbahn (NOB) extended the first railway line in Switzerland (between Zurich and Baden station ) to this point. With the commissioning of the Brugg – Aarau section on May 15, 1858, the rail link between Zurich and Bern was completed.

The people of Bruges complained that the train station was too far away. The town will suffer economic damage due to the necessary ten-minute walk (!). The Windischer, on the other hand, were annoyed that the station was called “Brugg”, although it was in their municipality. At that time, Windisch was in great financial straits and was finally forced to sell the area around the train station to Brugg for 25,000 francs in 1863.

The first Brugg train station was a simple wooden post construction. In addition, two goods sheds, a locomotive depot and a turntable were built. The wooden structure was replaced in 1867/68 by a representative building made of shell limestone (today's central section). The architect in charge was Jakob Friedrich Wanner , the building material came partly from earlier train station buildings in Zurich. With the construction of two more routes, Brugg developed into a railway junction: the Bözbergbahn to Basel opened on August 2nd, 1875, and the Aargau Southern Railway opened the route to Hendschiken on June 1st, 1882 .

In 1892 the NOB built the long shed that still exists today for the stationing of steam locomotives. Between 1911 and 1913, an SBB circular shed was added. In the final stage, 28 stands were planned, but only seven were realized. In addition, the SBB built a repair workshop for steam locomotives. After the railway lines had been electrified between 1925 and 1927, the repair shop was no longer needed and closed in 1928.

The station building was given its present form between 1918 and 1921 by adding two side wings (based on plans by Albert Froelich ). The covered central platforms were built in 1934 and accessed through underpasses. Before that, passengers had to cross up to four tracks to get on and off. Since the start of the Zurich S-Bahn in May 1990, Brugg has been the terminus of the S12 line.

literature

  • Switzerland's rail network . SBB, 1980
  • Astrid Baldinger Fuchs, Max Banholzer, Max Baumann, Felix Müller, Silvia Siegenthaler, Andreas Steigmeier : Experience Brugg - Volume 2. Verlag hier + now, Baden 2005. ISBN 3-03919-007-5
  • Werner Stutz: Railway Stations in Switzerland - From the Beginnings to the First World War . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-280-01405-0 , p. 46, 69, 91, 167 .

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Brugg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brugg-Windisch campus officially opened. In: Canton Aargau. November 22, 2013. Retrieved February 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ From today you can go south from the new bus terminal. In: Aargauer Zeitung. December 15, 2014, accessed February 19, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The way to the new bus station is long and arduous. In: Aargauer Zeitung. December 17, 2014, accessed February 19, 2017 .