Aarau railway station

Aarau railway station (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.

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

Services
the following services stop at Aarau:


 * 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:
 * : hourly service between Langenthal and Baden.
 * : hourly service to Rotkreuz.
 * : hourly service to Sursee and half-hourly service to Turgi.
 * Zürich S-Bahn
 * : half-hourly service to Winterthur; every other train continues to Seuzach or Wila
 * : on Friday and Saturday night, hourly service to Winterthur via Zürich Stadelhofen.