Laufenburg train station
| Laufenburg (CH) | |||
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| Data | |||
| Location in the network | Through station | ||
| Platform tracks | 1 | ||
| abbreviation | XSLN ( DB ) LFG ( SBB ) |
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| IBNR | 8500322 | ||
| opening | August 1, 1892 | ||
| Profile on SBB.ch | No. 322 | ||
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| City / municipality | Laufenburg | ||
| Canton | Aargau | ||
| Country | Switzerland | ||
| Coordinates | 646 802 / 268 158 | ||
| Height ( SO ) | 318 m | ||
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| List of train stations in Switzerland | |||
The Laufenburg station is the station of the city of Laufenburg in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland . The station is on route km 65.51 of the Koblenz – Stein-Säckingen railway line and is one of the terminus of the S1 line of the Basel S-Bahn .
history
After the forced division of Laufenburg into two cities in different countries, the economic situation in Laufenburg, Switzerland, fell sharply, especially as the Rhine increasingly lost its role as a transport route. Although the Baden part of Laufenburg had already been connected to the German railway network in 1856, this did not change on the Aargau side until August 1, 1892, when a railway line from Stein-Säckingen along the High Rhine to Koblenz was opened. The line was built by the Bötzbergbahn, a joint subsidiary of the Schweizerische Centralbahn (SCB) and the Schweizerische Nordostbahn (NOB).
Between 1962 and 1967 the RABDe 8/16 (Tatzelwurm) ran the Stein-Säckingen-Koblenz line as the Basel-Winterthur express train and also made a stop in Laufenburg.
Passenger traffic between Laufenburg and Koblenz ceased on May 28, 1994. The freight was preserved until today.
After a long period of preparation, the S1 line ( Mulhouse - Basel SBB - Frick / Laufenburg) of the Basel S-Bahn went into operation on June 1, 1997 . On May 24, 1998, the train sequence on the S1 was condensed.
Reception building
The reception building of the Laufenburg station is no longer used for rail operations. It houses the Laufenburg train station day care center .
Railway system
Laufenburg station has a total of four tracks, but only one of them is equipped with a platform : Track 1, the main platform. This ends further northeast at a buffer stop . It is therefore no longer possible to have passenger trains in the direction of Koblenz that should also stop in Laufenburg.
Tracks 2 to 4 are used by freight traffic for parking, shunting and passing trains.
The station's signaling system is state-of-the-art with signal type N and dwarf signals. However, the exit signals in both directions are so-called group exit signals: there is only one main signal for the three tracks in the direction of Koblenz or four tracks in the direction of Sisseln / Stein- Säckingen. For this reason, trains cannot enter the station from both sides at the same time.
About a kilometer west of the former station building branches off a siding to BASF, which is still on the station site, and is served by shunting trips on working days.
business
passenger traffic
Train
Laufenburg station is one of the two end stations of the S1 line of the Basel S-Bahn , next to Frick station , which runs from here every hour via Stein-Säckingen and Rheinfelden to Basel SBB . This is the only regular passenger train connection on the Stein-Säckingen – Koblenz route and at Laufenburg station. The eastern section of the railway line has been closed to passenger traffic since 1994. This is guaranteed today with an hourly bus connection.
- S 1 ( Mulhouse Ville -) Basel SBB - Pratteln - Rheinfelden - Stein-Säckingen - Frick / Laufenburg
bus
Post bus lines lead to Aarau , Brugg , Döttingen , Ittenthal , Stein-Säckingen and Sulz . These lines run from the bus station , which is located right next to platform 1. Most buses have direct connections from / to the S-Bahn to Basel.
Freight transport
Laufenburg station is a service point in the basic network of national freight traffic . Freight trains run regularly via Laufenburg, especially container trains to Rekingen and fuel trains to Glattbrugg , where the tank farm of Zurich Airport is located.
Connection to Laufenburg train station in Baden
As close as the two sister cities are to each other, the two train stations are also very close to each other. There is no direct bus connection in Laufenburg like the one in Rheinfelden. However, the walk from Laufenburg station in Aargau to Laufenburg station in Baden is only 12 minutes. This means that the shortest transition from the German to the Swiss railway network is on the Upper Rhine in Laufenburg.
literature
- Hans Maurer: Laufenburg. One city - two nations: Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany (= Swiss Art Guide, No. 374). Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK, Bern 1985.
- Werner Stutz: Railway Stations in Switzerland: From the Beginnings to the First World War. New edition by Orell Füssli, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-280-01405-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronicle of the Regio-S-Bahn Basel (PDF; 266 kB)
- ^ Website Kita Bahnhof Laufenburg
- ↑ Numbers and facts on Regio-S-Bahn Basel ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Footpath Laufenburg (CH) - Laufenburg (Baden) station on Google Maps