Chêne-Bourg railway station
Chêne-Bourg railway station (French: Gare de Chêne-Bourg) is a railway station in the municipality of Chêne-Bourg, in the Swiss canton of Geneva. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge CEVA orbital railway line of Swiss Federal Railways.
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| Location | Chêne-Bourg Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°11′47.760″N 6°11′50.399″E / 46.19660000°N 6.19733306°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 414 m (1,358 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Train operators | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | tpg buses[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 10 (unireso)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 15 December 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chêne-Bourg Location within Switzerland Chêne-Bourg Chêne-Bourg (Canton of Geneva) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
History edit
The original station opened on 27 May 1888, on the Annemasse-Genève-Eaux-Vives line between Genève-Eaux-Vives and Annemasse.[3] The station closed in 1987 in favor of the newly opened station at Ambilly; this was done so that customs control could be centralized at Genève-Eaux-Vives. The station building was preserved, and re-opened from 2011–2013 to handle TER services after construction on the new CEVA orbital railway line led to the closure of Genève-Eaux-Vives.[4]
As part of the CEVA project, a new underground station was built at Chêne-Bourg; the original station building was moved about 40 metres (130 ft) but remains standing. The new station opened on 15 December 2019.
Services edit
The following services stop at Chêne-Bourg:[5]
- RegioExpress: half-hourly service (hourly on weekends) to Vevey and hourly service to St-Maurice. Eastbound trains do not stop.
- Léman Express L1 / L2 / L3 / L4: service every fifteen minutes between Coppet and Annemasse; from Annemasse every hour to Annecy, and every two hours to Évian-les-Bains and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet.
Notes edit
- ^ "Plan tpg multimodal" (PDF) (in French). Geneva Public Transport. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ (in French). unireso. 2019. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ Frommel & Arikok 2004, pp. 200–231.
- ^ Dethurens, Chloé (25 October 2011). . Tribune de Genève (in French). Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "Annemasse - Genève - Coppet" (PDF) (in French). Swiss Federal Railways. 6 November 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
References edit
- Frommel, Bénédict; Arikok, Enis (2004). Les chemins de fer du Canton de Genève: étude historique, 1840-1960 (in French). Geneva: Service des monuments et sites. OCLC 604066418.
External links edit
- Media related to Chêne-Bourg railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Chêne-Bourg railway station – SBB