Vernier railway station (French: Gare de Vernier), formerly known as Cointrin, is a railway station in the municipality of Vernier, in the Swiss canton of Geneva. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lyon–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.[1]
Vernier | |||||||||||||||
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Location | Vernier Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 46°13′14.588″N 6°5′38.011″E / 46.22071889°N 6.09389194°E | ||||||||||||||
Elevation | 428 m (1,404 ft) | ||||||||||||||
Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Lyon–Geneva line | ||||||||||||||
Distance | 64.8 km (40.3 mi) from Lausanne[1] | ||||||||||||||
Train operators | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||
Connections | tpg buses and trolleybuses[2] | ||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 10 (unireso)[3] | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | 16 March 1858 | ||||||||||||||
Previous names | Cointrin | ||||||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||||||
2018 | 980 per weekday[4] | ||||||||||||||
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Services
editThe following services stop at Vernier:[5]
- Léman Express:
- L5: service between La Plaine and Genève-Cornavin.
- L6: service between Bellegarde and Genève-Cornavin.
References
edit- ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 68. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Plan tpg multimodal" (PDF) (in French). Geneva Public Transport. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- ^ "Plan tarifaire" (in French). unireso. 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- ^ "Bellegarde (Ain) – La Plaine – Genève" (PDF) (in French). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 12 May 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2020.