Vevey railway station

Vevey
Vevey
	The entrance to the station in 2008
General information
Location	Place de la Gare; Vevey; Switzerland
Coordinates	46°27′46.8″N 6°50′36.2″E / 46.463000°N 6.843389°E
Elevation	386 m (1,266 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Simplon line; Vevey–Chexbres line; Vevey–Les Pléiades line;
Distance	18.4 km (11.4 mi) from Lausanne
Platforms	5
Tracks	6
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways; Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera;
Connections	VMCA buses and trolleybuses
Construction
Parking	46
Bicycle facilities	434
Accessible	Partly
Other information
Station code	8501200 (VV)
Fare zone	70 (mobilis)
History
Opened	2 April 1861
Passengers
2023	26'700 per weekday (MVR, RegionAlps, SBB)
Services
Location
Location

Vevey railway station (French: Gare de Vevey) is a public transport hub not far from the shore of Lake Geneva. It serves the municipality of Vevey, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

SBB-CFF-FFS passenger trains call here while operating on the lakeside section of the standard gauge Simplon railway line. The station is also the western terminus of the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey-Chexbres to Puidoux-Chexbres on the Olten–Lausanne railway line, and a metre gauge line from Vevey to Blonay and Les Pléiades.^[1]

History

Vevey station was opened on 2 April 1861, when the then Jura–Simplon Railway (JS) opened the Lausanne–Villeneuve section of its standard gauge Simplon railway line to Sion. This line is now owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.

In 1902, operations began on the present day Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera metre gauge line to Blonay and Les Pléiades. In 1904, the line to Châtel-Saint-Denis, also metre gauge, became available for traffic. In the same year, the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey–Chexbres (VCh) line was opened to link Vevey with Puidoux-Chexbres.

The metre gauge line to Chatel-Saint-Denis was closed in 1969 and was replaced by VMCV bus line 13.

Location

The station is about 300 metres (980 ft) north of the lakeside marketplace. In the immediate vicinity can be found the Centre Saint-Antoine and Midi-Coindet shopping centres, which combine to form one of the largest shopping facilities in western Switzerland. Next to the station, in the old post office building, is the Coop Pronto office, amongst others.

Layout

As at the nearby Montreux railway station, access to the main platform is from the first floor of the station building, instead of the ground floor. The track system comprises one side and two centre platforms, along with some goods tracks.

Tracks 1 and 3 are reserved for SBB-CFF-FFS traffic on the Simplon railway line (there is no track 2).

Track 5, which is located with track 3 and the short track 4 on one of the centre platforms, serves the Train des Vignes as R7 to Puidoux.

The other centre platform, with tracks 6 (standard gauge) and 7 (metre gauge), which is in the western part of a small curve, usually serves only the MVR traffic to Blonay and Les Pléiades.

Services

As of the December 2023 timetable change,^[update] the following services call at Vevey:^[5]

Swiss Federal Railways

InterRegio: half-hourly service between Geneva Airport and Brig.
VosAlpes Express: daily direct service between Le Châble VS and Fribourg/Freiburg on weekends between December and April.
RegioExpress:
- half-hourly service (hourly on weekends) to Annemasse and hourly service to St-Maurice. On weekends, hourly service to Geneva Airport.
- single daily round-trip between Renens VD and St-Maurice.

RER Vaud

RER Vaud:
- R3 / R4: half-hourly (hourly on weekends) service between Vallorbe and Aigle; hourly service to Le Brassus; hourly service to St-Maurice on weekdays.
- R7: hourly service to Puidoux.

Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera

Regio: half-hourly service to Blonay, with every other train continuing to Les Pléiades.

Bus service

The VMCV serves the station (Vevey Gare) with various lines:

Line 201 (a trolleybus line): Vevey Funi–Vevey Gare–La Tour-de-Peilz–Montreux–Chillon–Villeneuve–Rennaz
Line 202: Vevey, Pra – Vevey, gare – Vevey, Charmontey
Line 211: Vevey–Corsier–Corseaux
Line 212: Vevey–Funiculaire–Corsier–Nant/Fenil Vieille Rte
Line 213: Vevey – Jongny – Monts-de-Corsier – Châtel-Saint-Denis
Line 215: Vevey, Marché – Vevey, gare – St-Légier
Line 216: Vevey – Jongny – Attalens – Bossonnens
Line 217: Vevey – Jongny – Attalens – Palézieux

Gallery

entrance hall, main entrance (2016)
entrance hall, underpass and stairs to platform with track #1 (2019)
station building (2016)
station building (1995), with a third track
track #7, metre gauge, MVR train to Blonay (2016)

References

^ ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 42. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Plan de réseau VMCV" (PDF) (in French). Transports publics Vevey-Montreux-Chillon-Villeneuve. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
^ "Plan de zones tarifaires". Mobilis Vaud. December 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
^ "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Vevey, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
^ "Départ: Gare de Vevey" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in French). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

External links

Media related to Vevey railway station at Wikimedia Commons
Vevey railway station – SBB

[saw-1] Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 42. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

[vmcv-2] "Plan de réseau VMCV" (PDF) (in French). Transports publics Vevey-Montreux-Chillon-Villeneuve. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

[mobilis-vaud-3] "Plan de zones tarifaires". Mobilis Vaud. December 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

[SBB-4] "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Vevey, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.

[départ-5] "Départ: Gare de Vevey" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in French). 10 December 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2024.

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