Rupperswil railway station
railway station in Switzerland
Rupperswil railway station (German: Bahnhof Rupperswil) is a railway station in the municipality of Rupperswil, in the Swiss canton of Aargau. It is an intermediate stop on the Baden–Aarau and Heitersberg lines and the northern terminus of the Rupperswil–Immensee line.
Services
As of the December 2023 timetable change, the following services stop at Rupperswil, including two nighttime services (SN1, SN11) offered by the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund (ZVV):
Aargau S-Bahn:
S23: hourly service between Langenthal and Baden.
S29: half-hourly service between Aarau and Turgi, with every other train continuing from Aarau to Sursee.
Zurich S-Bahn:
SN1: on Friday and Saturday night, hourly service between Aarau and Winterthur via Zürich Stadelhofen.
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