Lenzburg Stadt railway station () was a railway station in Lenzburg in the Swiss canton of Aargau.Christoph Moser: Zeitreise: Der Stadtbahnhof, 24.01.2021 It was located at the station square () in .
The station was opened in 1895 by Schweizerische Seethalbahn Aktiengesellschaft, on the Seetal line to Wildegg. The station building by 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 had to reverse at "Lenzburg Spitzkehre".Christoph Moser: Zeitreise: Die Spitzkehre, 20.12.2020 Towards Wildegg, the line passed through a small, now pedestrian, tunnel in the railway embankment.Christoph Moser: Zeitreise: Der Eisenbahntunnel, durch den kein Zug mehr fährt, 22.11.2020Bahnbilder von Max: SBB Strecke Wildegg - Lenzburg
Closure
With the opening of the Heitersberg railway line in 1975, service from Lenzburg station further improved and Lenzburg Stadt was less used.Lenzburg-Spitzkehre – Wildegg (SBB) Passenger service ended on 2 June 1984 and installations were gradually dismantled. The station building was destroyed in 2003. Cargo traffic continued to spring 2005 for , a Fenaco subsidiary, who opposed the closure of the line.Christian Brenner: Von der "blauen Kugel" zur Kerntangente : die Geschichte der Umfahrung von Lenzburg, Lenzburger Neujahrsblätter, 2008, pages 5-51, especially 38-42.
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.Alter Bahnhof Lenzburg-Stadt (abgebrochen), LEN839.934 A house across the tracks of the former station still exists in 2021.
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