Baden – Aarau railway line

Baden – Aarau
Timetable field :	650
Route length:	26.82 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	10.0  ‰
Legend from Zurich 22.53 to bathe 385.1  m above sea level. M. 27.43 Turgi 341.7  m above sea level M. to Waldshut Reuss Turgi 73 m 31.27 Brugg 352.2  m above sea level M. Bözberg line / Aargau Southern Railway Connection route Brugg 36.14 Schinznach-Bad 351.9  m above sea level M. 38.75 Holderbank 355  m above sea level M. 40.41 Wildegg 353.8  m above sea level M. Seetalbahn from Lenzburg Heitersberg route from Lenzburg 43.50 Rupperswil 373.7  m above sea level M. Four lane route Rohr - Buchs (closed in 1995) Suhre 48.15 Aarau GB 383.3  m above sea level M. from Suhr 49.35 Aarau 383.3  m above sea level M. to Olten

The Baden-Aarau railway line is a railway line in northern Switzerland . It leads from Baden via Turgi , Brugg and Wildegg to Aarau .

Routing

The railway line runs from Baden train station to the west of the Limmat along to Turgi , crossed on a brick stone bridge (the SBB Reussbrücke Turgi is the second oldest still operating railway bridge in Switzerland) the Reuss , still leads about 2 kilometers to the west of the Aare along and then reaches Brugg train station . The route then largely follows the course of the Aare to Aarau train station . Apart from the Reuss Bridge mentioned above, there are no major engineering structures.

In Turgi, the route to Koblenz branches off north through the lower Aare valley. In Brugg, the Bözberg line to Basel branches off in a north-westerly direction and the Aargau Southern Railway in the direction of Arth-Goldau - Gotthard in a southerly direction.

In Wildegg there used to be a junction of the Seetalbahn in a southerly direction to Lenzburg , but operations on this route were discontinued in 1984. In Rupperswil, the Heitersberg route is threaded from Lenzburg. Shortly before Aarau, the Aarau – Suhr line joins the former national railway ; this was shut down at the end of 2004 and has now been canceled.

history

The first Swiss railway line, the Spanish Brötli Railway , began operating on August 9, 1847 between Zurich and Baden. It was planned to continue the route via Turgi, through the lower Aare valley to Koblenz and further along the Rhine to Basel . However, this initially failed due to financial difficulties.

In 1850, a national council commission with the help of the well-known English railway engineer Robert Stephenson recommended, among other things, that the connection from Zurich to Basel should not be built via Koblenz, but via Olten. The Nordostbahn planned to continue from Baden along the Limmat to Turgi, then along the Aare to Aarau. On September 30, 1856, the Baden – Brugg section and on May 15, 1858 the continuation to Aarau was opened to traffic.

The railway line was initially single-track, as was the Spanish-Brötli-Bahn. As early as 1861, the Zurich – Turgi line, and in 1862 the Turgi – Aarau line, was expanded to double-track. The electrification with the 15 kV 16 2/3 Hz system common at SBB was put into operation on January 21, 1925. Until the nationalization of the large private railway companies to the SBB, the Nordostbahn was responsible for the operation of the route.

For more than 100 years - until the opening of the Heitersberg route in 1975 - this was the main east-west transversal of the Swiss rail network. However, the Bözbergbahn was built in 1875 , which allowed a shorter connection between Zurich and Basel than the route via Aarau – Olten– Hauenstein . The originally planned route from Zurich to Basel via Koblenz was also built later: Turgi to Koblenz in 1859 and Koblenz to Laufenburg to Basel in 1892.

Accidents

On June 4, 1899, the night express train Zurich - Geneva of the Nordostbahn (NOB) drove beyond the prescribed stopping point in Aarau station and hit two stationary locomotives of the Centralbahn (SCB). The accident left two dead and three seriously injured.

On September 7, 1972, the engine driver of the Ae 4/7 10916 ignored a signal at the Rupperswil station and hit the control car of a passenger train head-on . The accident claimed two lives and nine injured.

literature

• Hans G. Wägli: Swiss Rail Network . Bern 1980.
• Plazid Weissenbach : The railways of Switzerland . Zurich 1913.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The oldest railway bridge still in operation is, like it, also on the SBB line 710 Zurich-Brugg. It is the original bridge over the “ Spanish Brötli Railway ”, which opened in 1847, over the Schäflibach in Dietikon. The small structure is now covered by the mighty road structure of the double lane.
2. ↑ Report of the Federal Council to the Federal Assembly on the pardon request of Heinrich Metzger, who was convicted of negligent railroad endangerment, former locomotive driver of the Swiss Nordostbahn, in Seebach near Zurich. (PDF, 0.4 MB) In: Swiss Federal Gazette. June 21, 1902, p. 885 , accessed October 20, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Hans Schneeberger: The electric and diesel traction vehicles of the SBB . Volume I: years of construction 1904–1955. Minirex, Luzern 1995, ISBN 3-907014-07-3 , p. 124 .
4. ^ Results of the accident statistics for the eleventh five-year observation period 1968–1972. (PDF, 3.2 MB) Swiss Accident Insurance Fund, accessed on October 18, 2013 .