Wasseralfingen station is a railway station on the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt–Nördlingen railway in the city of Aalen, located in the Ostalbkreis district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The train services are operated by Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg and Go-Ahead Bayern.
The local ironworks, in operation since 1671, had been one of the primary reasons to build the first railway in the region. The Aalen–Wasseralfingen section of the Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt–Aalen railway was opened in 1861. The extension to Nördlingen followed in 1863. The ironworks still exist as a company (SHW), but are now mostly an automotive supplier and do not use the railway any more.
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