Genève-Cornavin railway station

Geneva railway station (French: Gare de Genève), formerly known as Geneva Cornavin railway station, is Geneva's main train station, located in the centre of the city. The immediate area surrounding it is known as Cornavin; both names can be used interchangeably.

Geneva

Genève
The main (south) entrance to the station building in 2019
LocationGeneva
Switzerland
Coordinates46°12′36.781″N 6°8′32.809″E
Elevation392 m (1,286 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Distance60.3 km (37.5 mi) from Lausanne[1]
Platforms4
Tracks8
Train operators
Connections
Construction
ArchitectJulien Flegenheimer (1931)
Other information
Fare zone10 (unireso)[3]
History
Opened1858 (1858)
Rebuilt
  • 1931 (1931)
  • 2010-2014 (2010-2014) (reconstruction)
Previous namesGeneva Cornavain
Passengers
201870,700 per working day[4][lower-alpha 1]
Services
Preceding station EuroCity Following station
Terminus Geneva to Milan Lausanne
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station
Geneva Airport
Terminus
InterCity
IC 1
Lausanne
towards St. Gallen
InterCity
IC 5
Morges
InterRegio
IR 15
Nyon
towards Lucerne
InterRegio
IR 90
Nyon
towards Brig
Lancy-Pont-Rouge
towards Annemasse
RegioExpress
Coppet
towards St-Maurice
Preceding station TGV Lyria Following station
Bellegarde
towards Paris-Lyon
Paris to Lausanne Lausanne
Terminus
Bellegarde Marseille to Geneva Terminus
Preceding station TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Following station
Bellegarde TER
Terminus
Bellegarde
Bellegarde
Preceding station Léman Express Following station
Lancy-Pont-Rouge
towards Évian-les-Bains
L1 Genève-Sécheron
towards Coppet
Lancy-Pont-Rouge
towards Annecy
L2
Lancy-Pont-Rouge L3
Lancy-Pont-Rouge
towards Annemasse
L4
Vernier
towards La Plaine
L5 Terminus
Vernier
towards Bellegarde
L6
Location
Geneva
Location within Switzerland
Geneva
Geneva (Canton of Geneva)

The station has over 400 train departures every day from its eight through-platforms. Platforms 7 and 8 have French and Swiss border controls. Long distance and regional express trains leave for France without making any stops in Switzerland. Another reason to separate the tracks is the different electrical standards of the relevant railway system on either side. The French system uses 25 kV at 50 Hz AC, but the Swiss system uses 15 kV AC at 16.7 Hz.

The station connects to one Swiss mainline, the Lausanne–Geneva line, which links the city with the rest of Switzerland, to the east. Many long-distance trains from this line continue to and terminate at the airport, 6 minutes away. There is also significant traffic to France westwards along the Lyon-Geneva line, which, for the first few kilometres, runs as a single track line alongside the double-track line to the airport. Traffic to France includes long-distance TGVs to Paris and southern France and regional trains to Lyon via Bellegarde. Cornavin is also the hub of the Léman Express network, with six routes in service. Many of these routes travel over the newly-opened CEVA, which leads to Annemasse.[1]

Facilities

The facilities at the station include a police station, a pharmacy, several supermarkets, coffee shops, bakeries, food stands, clothing shops and multiple other establishments.

Nearby area features

Located directly outside the station are bus and tram stops for Transports Publics Genevois services to all over Geneva city, its canton and nearby French locales, a taxi rank, banks, cash machines, post offices, hotels, cinemas, jewellers, book shops, money exchange services, restaurants, bars, and fast food restaurants.

The station entrance and a platform is seen in The Adventures of Tintin comic The Calculus Affair (1956).

Planned extension of the railway station

The Swiss Federal Railways announced they would extend the railway station by constructing two new railway tracks. The station needs extending due to the planned increase in traffic over the coming years. The initial project cost 800 million Swiss francs and involved the demolition of 350 dwellings next to the station. A second project supported by residents of the neighborhood plan to build the two new tracks under the station with a total cost around 1.7 billion Swiss francs.[5]

The Swiss Federal Rail plans for the new extension to be completed by 2025.[6]

In April 2013, an initiative was launched to claim the extension under the station by the "Collectif 500" a neighborhood association.[7]

Services

The following services stop at Geneva:[8]

See also

Notes

  1. Without SNCF figures

References

  1. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 68. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  2. "Plan tpg multimodal" (PDF) (in French). Geneva Public Transport. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
  3. "Plan tarifaire" (in French). unireso. 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  4. "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
  5. "Extension de Cornavin: Genève veut des chiffres" via www.tdg.ch.
  6. http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/expertise-trancher-deux-variantes-extension-cornavin/story/26655924?track
  7. "Une initiative est lancée pour agrandir Cornavin en souterrain" via www.tdg.ch.
  8. "Départ: Gare de Genéve" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in French). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
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