Geneva Airport railway station
Geneva Airport railway station (French: Gare de Genève-Aéroport) is a train station located underground next to the terminal building of Geneva International Airport (French: Aéroport international de Genève) (IATA code: GVA), in Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland.[3] It is located at the end of the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.[1]
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 An InterCity train departing from the station | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Grand-Saconnex Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°13′57.173″N 6°6′43.124″E | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 411 m (1,348 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Lausanne–Geneva line | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 66.2 km (41.1 mi) from Lausanne[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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  Geneva Airport Location within Switzerland  Geneva Airport Geneva Airport (Canton of Geneva) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
The station is 250 metres away from the airport terminal via a covered walkway, and very near to the Palexpo fairground.
Services
The station is a terminus station served by an average of five trains an hour. They all call at the Geneva main station (Genève-Cornavin) (6 minutes away) and continue to Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Fribourg, Biel/Bienne, Soluthurn, Bern, Lucerne, Zurich, Winterthur, St. Gallen, and/or the Valais Alps (Sion & Brig):[4]
- InterCity
- Hourly IC 1 to St. Gallen via Lausanne, Fribourg, Bern, Zurich, Zurich Airport, and Winterthur.
- Hourly IC 5 to Zurich via Morges, Yverdon-les-Bains, Neuchâtel, Biel/Bienne, Soluthurn, Olten, and Aarau.
- InterRegio
- Hourly IR 15 to Lucerne via Nyon, Morges, Lausanne, Palézieux, Romont, Fribourg, Bern, Zofingen, and Sursee.
- Half-hourly IR 90 to Brig via Nyon (only hourly), Morges (only hourly), Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux, Aigle, St-Maurice (only hourly), Martigny, Sion, Sierre/Siders, Leuk (only hourly), and Visp.
References
- 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 4 July 2020.
- http://plans.trafimage.ch/geneve-aeroport?lang=en#?layer=geneve-aeroport_aussenplan
- "Genève-Aéroport - Genève - Nyon - Morges - Lausanne (RER Vaud, lignes S3, S4)" (PDF) (in French). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
External links
Media related to Genève-Aéroport railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Geneva Airport railway station – SBB
- Interactive station plan (Genève Aéroport)