Oberaichen station

Oberaichen station is located in Leinfelden-Echterdingen at the 18.9 kilometre point of the Stuttgart-Rohr–Filderstadt railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is a station on the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.HistoryOn 1 October 1920, Deutsche Reichsbahn opened a railway line from Rohr to Echterdingen. It branched off the Gäu Railway (Gäubahn) south of Rohr off and ran through the Dürrlewang forest to Oberaichen. The station was placed at the crossing of the road to Unteraichen (now called Raiffeisenstraße), which was then 19 kilometres from Stuttgart Central Station. It was equipped with a simple wooden shelter. The Zum Bahnhof restaurant opened opposite the station in about 1927.After other Filderstadt villages had been connected by tram and bus to Stuttgart, Degerloch and Esslingen, the new railway proved to be unprofitable within 20 years of its opening. The last train ran to Neuhausen on 1 August 1955.ReactivationWhen designing a new regional transport concept for Stuttgart and the surrounding area in the 1960s, transport engineer Professor Walter Lambert planned the partial reactivation of the railway to create a rail link to Stuttgart Airport.The implementation of his proposal began in 1984.