Lenzburg Stadt railway station

Swiss railway station

Lenzburg Stadt

Location within Switzerland

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Lenzburg Stadt

Lenzburg Stadt (Canton of Aargau)

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Railways around Lenzburg

Legend

elev

in m

Baden–Aarau railway line
to Baden/Zürich

4.02

Wildegg

354

Baden–Aarau railway line to Aarau

2.06

Niederlenz

383

Lenzburg Industrie

Baden–Aarau railway line to Aarau

Zofingen–Wettingen railway line
to Zofingen

Lenzburg

406

Heitersberg railway line to Baden

0.42

Lenzburg Stadt

397

0.00

Lenzburg Spitzkehre

Seon

446

to Emmenbrücke/Lucerne

Lenzburg Stadt railway station (German: Bahnhof Lenzburg Stadt) was a railway station in Lenzburg in the Swiss canton of Aargau.^[2] It was located at the station square (German: Seetalplatz) in Bahnhofstrasse [de].

The station was opened in 1895 by Schweizerische Seethalbahn Aktiengesellschaft, on the Seetal line to Wildegg. The station building by Emil Vogt [de]^[1] had a small restaurant. By 1910, the line was electrified. The station (and line) were nationalized by Swiss Federal Railways in 1922. The present-day Malagarain street is built on some of the right of way.

Trains from Lenzburg Stadt to Lenzburg had to reverse at "Lenzburg Spitzkehre".^[3] Towards Wildegg, the line passed through a small, now pedestrian, tunnel in the railway embankment.^[4]^[5]

Closure

With the opening of the Heitersberg railway line in 1975, service from Lenzburg station further improved and Lenzburg Stadt was less used.^[6] Passenger service ended on 2 June 1984 and installations were gradually dismantled. The station building was destroyed in 2003.^[1]^[2] Cargo traffic continued to spring 2005 for UFA AG [de], a Fenaco subsidiary, who opposed the closure of the line.^[7]

After the tracks were removed, a covered bypass road (Kerntangente) was built on the land. The (former) building remained in the canton's building inventory until 2017.^[1] A house across the tracks of the former station still exists in 2021.^[2]

Gallery

Aerial view with Bahnhofstrasse in the top left corner, 1919
The station building in 1974
Station with passenger train (likely before June 1984)
Seetalplatz side (ca. 1990)
Former station building in 2001 (demolished in 2003)
former Seetalbahn tunnel near the station (2016)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Alter Bahnhof Lenzburg-Stadt (abgebrochen), LEN839.934
^ ^a ^b ^c Christoph Moser: Zeitreise: Der Stadtbahnhof, 24.01.2021
^ Christoph Moser: Zeitreise: Die Spitzkehre, 20.12.2020
^ Christoph Moser: Zeitreise: Der Eisenbahntunnel, durch den kein Zug mehr fährt, 22.11.2020
^ Bahnbilder von Max: SBB Strecke Wildegg - Lenzburg
^ Lenzburg-Spitzkehre – Wildegg (SBB)
^ Christian Brenner: Von der "blauen Kugel" zur Kerntangente : die Geschichte der Umfahrung von Lenzburg, Lenzburger Neujahrsblätter, 2008, pages 5-51, especially 38-42.