Brion—Montréal-la-Cluse station (French: ''Gare de Brion—Montréal-la-Cluse'') is a French

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

located in

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

of Brion,

Ain Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where it ...

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

in the

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...

region In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as zones, lands or territories, are areas that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and t ...

. The station is also within close proximity of the commune of

Montréal-la-Cluse Montréal-la-Cluse () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It is located in the historical region of Bugey and its inhabitants are known as the ''Montréalais''. Transport The town lies on the Haut Bugey railway line and a b ...

, for which it is jointly named after. It is located at

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(KP) 35.618 on the

Ligne du Haut-Bugey The Haut-Bugey line (french: Ligne du Haut-Bugey) (also nicknamed ''Lignes des Carpates'') is a railway line in France. It is 65 kilometres in length and connects Bourg-en-Bresse with Bellegarde, travelling through the Jura Mountains. For a ce ...

(Bourg-en-Bresse–Bellegarde railway). Opened in 1996 by the

SNCF The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (; abbreviated as SNCF ; French for "National society of French railroads") is France's national state-owned railway company. Founded in 1938, it operates the country's national rail traffi ...

, the station replaced the now closed La Cluse station. Its layout was further modified during the closure of the Haut-Bugey railway between 2005 and 2010. As of 2022, the station is owned and operated by the

and served by

TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the regional rail network serving the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, central and eastern France. It is operated by the French national railway company SNCF. It was formed in 2017 from the previous TER networks TER Au ...

trains.

History

In 2019, the

estimated that 35,922 passengers traveled through the station.{{Cite web, title=Fréquentation en gares, url=https://ressources.data.sncf.com/explore/dataset/frequentation-gares/table/?q=Brion-Montr%C3%A9al-la-Cluse&sort=nom_gare&disjunctive.nom_gare&disjunctive.code_postal&dataChart=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, access-date=2020-12-22, website=ressources.data.sncf.com, language=fr

Services

Passenger services

Classified as a PANG (''point d'accès non géré''), the station is unstaffed without any passenger services.

Train services

As of 2022, the station is served by

trains, which circulate between

Bourg-en-Bresse Bourg-en-Bresse (; frp, Bôrg) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Ain Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region in Eastern France. Located northeast of Lyon, it is the capital of the ...

and

Oyonnax Oyonnax () is the second most populated commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. Oyonnax lies in a valley of the Jura Mountains in the far north of Ain. It is near the Parc naturel régional du Haut- ...

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TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, accessed 13 May 2022.Réseau TER et cars Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, accessed 13 May 2022.

Intermodality

In addition to car parking, the station is equipped with facilities to enable bicycle storage.

References

Railway stations in Ain