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Home > The rail line > Killwangen-Spreitenbach station Killwangen-Spreitenbach stationJust west of Killwangen-Spreitenbach station, SBB's main lines from Aarau and from Baden merge. Click here for an animated schematic of train operations between Killwangen and Dietikon, including the new tracks, crossovers and flyover. As the animination shows, east of Killwangen:
Killwangen photo gallery What follows are some views of traffic through Killwangen-Spreitenbach station on March 8, 2001. All of the train shots are looking east from the Killwangen platform. (You can click on most of the following images to get bigger versions and more details.)
A westbound container train headed toward Baden approaches the new high-speed crossover. (Click image for more.)
A westbound Intercity Tilting Train (Intercity Neigezug or ICN) bound for Bern and points beyond. (Click image for more.)
The daily TGV out of Zurich, bound for Paris. (Click image for more.)
An eastbound express from Basel whose next stop is Zurich main station is about to use the new high-speed crossover to change to the inbound express track on the far left. (Click image for more.)
The same train, now halfway trough the crossover. (Click image for more.)
Even Killwangen-Spreitenbach has its quiet moments, when the photographer's eye wanders to details such as a crossing for baggage carts, with its small signal to warn of approaching trains: And finally, the wait is rewarded: switch machines whirr (at a safe distance) and moments later two locomotives, running light, traverse the high-speed crossover from the outbound express track to the line just to my left, which leads toward Baden and Basel: |
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