Killwangen-Spreitenbach railway station () is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

in the municipality of Killwangen in the

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canton of Aargau Aargau ( ; ), more formally the Canton of Aargau (; ; ; ), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of eleven districts and its capital is Aarau. Aargau is one of the most northerly cantons of Switzerland, by th ...

. As the name suggests, the station also serves the adjacent municipality of Spreitenbach. The station is located on the Zürich–Baden railway line, just east of the point where the newer route via the

Heitersberg Tunnel The Heitersberg railway line (''Heitersbergstrecke'') is a Swiss railway line between the stations of Killwangen-Spreitenbach and Aarau on the east-west main line between Zürich and Bern. The main structure of the line is the Heitersberg Tunnel ...

diverges from the original line via

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. There is also a freight-only connection to the

Wettingen–Effretikon railway line The Wettingen–Effretikon railway line (sometimes called the ''Furttal Bahn'') is a standard-gauge railway line to the northwest of Zürich, Switzerland. It was opened on 15 October 1877 by the Swiss National Railway (''Schweizerische Nationalb ...

. The station is served by services S11 and S12 of the

Zurich S-Bahn The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, ...

. The station is the western terminus of the

Limmattal light rail line The Limmattal light rail line () is a metre gauge tram line in the Limmat Valley between Altstetten (Zürich), Zürich Altstetten and Killwangen which started service in 2022. The line is 13.4 kilometres (8.3 mi) long and serves 27 stops. It is ...

from Zürich Altstetten station, providing local service along the

Limmat Valley The Limmat Valley (German: ''Limmattal'') is a river valley and a region in the Canton (Switzerland), cantons of Canton of Zürich, Zürich and Canton of Aargau, Aargau in Switzerland. Geography The Limmat () is a long river located in ...

. The line opened in December 2022.

Services

the following services stop at Killwangen-Spreitenbach: *

Zürich S-Bahn The Zurich S-Bahn () system is a network of rail lines that has been incrementally expanded to cover the ZVV area, which comprises the entire canton of Zurich and portions of neighbouring cantons (Aargau, Glarus, Schaffhausen, Schwyz, ...

: ** : half-hourly service between and ; hourly service to or ; rush-hour service to . ** : half-hourly service between and Winterthur; hourly service to or . ** : on Friday and Saturday night, hourly service between Aarau and Winterthur via . The S11 and S12 combine for service every fifteen minutes between Killwangen-Spreitenbach and Winterthur.

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* * Railway stations in the canton of Aargau Swiss Federal Railways stations Spreitenbach Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1848 {{Switzerland-railstation-stub

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