Ceyzériat station (French: ''Gare de Ceyzériat'') is a French

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located in commune of

Ceyzériat Ceyzériat () is a commune in the Ain department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. Ceyzériat station has rail connections to Bourg-en-Bresse and Oyonnax. History Hippolyte Paul Jayr, twice minister during the July monarch ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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. It is located at

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(KP) 9.864 on the Bourg-en-Bresse—Bellegarde railway. Originally opened in 1876, the station was closed in 2005 for renovations along the Haut-Bugey railway as well as reconstruction of the station, prior to re-opening in 2010. As of 2020, the station is owned and operated by the

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and served by TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes trains.

History

The station was opened by the Compagnie des Dombes et des chemins de fer Sud-Est on 10 March 1876 along with a section of railway from Bourg-en-Bresse to

Simandre-sur-Suran Simandre-sur-Suran () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 393 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the ...

. The station was closed for reconstruction in 2005, along with the remainder of the line, before re-opening on 12 December 2010. The old passenger building was torn down in June 2010, along with those of

Villereversure Villereversure () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 393 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the f ...

and Cize-Bolozon. In 2019, the

estimated that 6,762 passengers traveled through the station.

Services

Passenger services

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

Train services

As of 2020, the station is served by the following services: * Regional services ( TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 31) Bourg-en-Bresse ... Brion-Montréal-la-Cluse ... Oyonnax ... Saint-Claude.

Intermodality

The station is equipped with a parking lot for passenger vehicles and secured storage for bicycles.

Gallery

File:Gare de Ceyzériat 2005.JPG, Ceyzériat station in June 2005, two months prior to closing for reconstruction File:Gare Ceyzériat 4.jpg, Platform after 2005–2010 reconstruction File:Gare de Ceyzériat 020610.JPG, View from a X 4208 railcar, a couple of days prior to the demolition of the old passenger building File:Indication altitude Gare Ceyzériat 3.jpg, Remnants of the previous passenger building File:Gare Ceyzériat 9.jpg, Old ''halle à marchandises''

References

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