BDWM Transport

{{Short description|Transport company in Switzerland}}

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BDWM Transport was a transport company in Switzerland, that operated regional rail and bus services in the cantons of Aargau and Zürich. The company was formed in 2000 by a merger of the Bremgarten–Dietikon railway (BD) and {{Interlanguage link|Wohlen–Meisterschwanden railway|de}} (WM) companies.{{cite web|url=http://bdwm.ch/unternehmen |title=Unternehmen Wissenswertes und Stellenangebote |trans-title=Companies to know and Careers |publisher=BWDM Transport |accessdate=2014-04-30 |url-status = dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502001717/http://bdwm.ch/unternehmen |archivedate=2014-05-02 }} The company merged with Wynental and Suhrental Railway to form Aargau Verkehr AG (AVA) in 2018.{{Cite news |last=Helbling |first=Uls |url=https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/aargau/aarau/historisches-ereignis-die-fusion-aller-aargauer-bahnen-ist-geschafft-132710490 |title=Historisches Ereignis: Die Fusion aller Aargauer Bahnen ist geschafft |date=19 June 2018 |work=Aargauer Zeitung |access-date=6 March 2020 |language=de-ch |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607180934/https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/aargau/aarau/historisches-ereignis-die-fusion-aller-aargauer-bahnen-ist-geschafft-132710490 |archive-date=7 June 2019 |url-status=dead }} The company operated the following.

• The Bremgarten–Dietikon railway line (line S17 of the Zürich S-Bahn)
• The Wohlen–Meisterschwanden bus service
• The SBB bus Zofingen / Reiden
• The express bus Bremgarten / Busslingen–Zurich Enge
• The Limmat Bus AG

In May 2016 it was announced that the Limmattal light rail line, to be constructed in the densely populated Limmattal area to the west of Zürich, would be operated by BDWM. The line will connect Killwangen, Spreitenbach, Dietikon, Urdorf and Schlieren to Zürich-Altstetten railway station, with connection to the Bremgarten–Dietikon line at Dietikon and to Zürich tram route 2 at Farbhof. File:Bremgarten Depot BD.jpg Construction was scheduled to start in 2017. The line opened in 2022.{{Cite web|url=http://www.limmattalbahn.ch/|title=Limmattalbahn - Ein Projekt des Zürcher Verkehrsbundes ZVV und des Kantons Aargau| last= |first= |date= |website=www.limmattalbahn.ch |publisher= |language=de| access-date=2016-12-20 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204095223/http://www.limmattalbahn.ch/ |archivedate=2016-12-04 |url-status = live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/aktuell/zuerich-sagt-ja-zur-limmattalbahn-ld.3186 |first1=Stefan |last1=Hotz |first2=André |last2=Müller |title=Nur das Limmattal selbst stimmt gegen "sein" neues Tram |language=German |trans-title=Only the Limmattal itself voted against "its" new tram |work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |date=22 November 2015 |accessdate=27 February 2017}}{{cite news |url=https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/aktuell/bdwm-transport-ag-aargauer-betreiben-zuercher-limmattalbahn-ld.82405 |first=Corsin |last=Zander |title=Aargauer betreiben Zürcher Limmattalbahn |language=German |trans-title=Aargau company to operate Zürcher Limmattalbahn |work=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |date=13 May 2016 |accessdate=27 February 2017}}File:BDMW5002 Dietikon.jpg