Schwaikheim station  Schwaikheim station is located in Schwaikheim at the 6.8 kilometre point of the Waiblingen–Schwäbisch Hall railway in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and is a station on the Stuttgart S-Bahn network. In the 1860s, engineers were planning a railway line from Waiblingen to Backnang. They worked initially on two proposals. The first would have meant a line running via Korb to Winnenden. The second proposal was to the extent the line as far as possible through the Rems valley, leaving it near Großheppach to turn to the north. Ultimately, the decision was made to build a viaduct over the Rems at Neustadt and use the current route, which runs on a lower and more westerly alignment than either of the original proposals. Schwaikheim Schultheiß (mayor) Gebhard Friedrich Simon, who at that time sat as a deputy in the Württemberg parliament, campaigned strongly for a rail connection for his home town. Some earthworks were necessary in the Schwaikheim district. The Royal Württemberg State Railways had to dig a tunnel in order for the railway line to climb from the Erbach valley to Winnenden. A straight course to the east was created by building a railway embankment over the Lohwiesenbach. The station was a kilometre south of Schwaikheim. The State Railway asked the local council to build a broad road to the station. But this was refused and it built a road that was only as wide as a pedestrian path. The station building has been preserved. It is a two-storey building with a gable roof that is 15 metres long and nine metres wide. The ground floor consists of sandstone and the upper floor is built of brick. The ground floor initially had a post office with a telegraph office. Schwaikheim station was officially opened on 26 October 1876. The State Railway took the first section of the Waiblingen–Schwäbisch Hall railway (Murr Valley Railway) between Waiblingen and Backnang into operation on that day. The council built the Bahnhofstrasse (station road). Initially, however, it was only a dirt road. It was not upgraded until 1907, when it was extended; it is now Kreisstraße (county road) 1911 from Waiblingen to Winnenden.