Aarau railway station

Aarau
Aarau
	The station building in 2014
General information
Location	Bahnhofstrasse 72; Aarau; Switzerland
Coordinates	47°23′28.860″N 8°3′4.504″E / 47.39135000°N 8.05125111°E
Elevation	384 metres (1,260 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Heitersberg line; Olten–Aarau line; Baden–Aarau line;
Distance	41.5 km (25.8 mi) from Zürich Hauptbahnhof
Platforms	4
Tracks	6
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	BBA Bus Aarau and PostAuto bus
Other information
Fare zone	A-Welle: 510
Website	Bahnhof Aarau
History
Opened	9 June 1856
Passengers
2018	44,800 per working day
Rank	17 of 1735
Services
Location

Aarau railway station (German: Bahnhof Aarau) serves the municipality of Aarau, capital town of the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Opened in 1856, it is owned and operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS).

The station forms the junction between the Olten–Aarau railway, the Zurich-Aarau railway and the Baden–Aarau railway. Previously, it was also a terminus of the now closed Aarau–Suhr railway.^[1]

On the southern side of the station yard is the separate railway station Aarau WSB for the metre gauge trains of the Menziken–Aarau–Schöftland line of Aargau Verkehr AG (AVA). Its infrastructure (its own station building, 2 platforms serving three tracks, no. 11–13) is directly connected with Aarau railway station.

Location[edit]

Aarau railway station is situated in the Bahnhofstrasse, at the south eastern edge of the old town.

As of the December 2023 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Aarau:^[3]

Intercity: hourly service between Geneva Airport and Rorschach.
InterRegio:
- hourly service between Bern and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
- hourly service between Basel SBB and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
RegioExpress:
- hourly service between Olten and Wettingen.
- hourly service to Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
- three round-trips on weekends between Olten and Arth-Goldau.
Aargau S-Bahn:
- S23: hourly service between Langenthal and Baden.
- S26: hourly service to Rotkreuz.
- S29: hourly service to Sursee and half-hourly service to Turgi.
Zürich S-Bahn
- S11: half-hourly service to Winterthur; every other train continues to Seuzach or Wila
- SN1: on Friday and Saturday night, hourly service to Winterthur via Zürich Stadelhofen.

^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 11. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-02 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
^ "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Aarau" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.

Stutz, Werner (1983). Bahnhöfe der Schweiz: Von den Anfangen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg [The Railway Stations of Switzerland: from the beginning to World War I] (in German) (revised ed.). Zürich: Orell Füssli. pp. 112 and 142. ISBN 3-280-01405-0.