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

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 the

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Mézériat Mézériat (; frp, Mesèriê) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Geography The Veyle flows west through the southern part of the commune, crosses the village, then flows southwest and forms part of the commune's southwestern ...

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 ...

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. It is located at

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(KP) 21.476 on the Mâcon—Ambérieu railway, between the stations of

Vonnas Vonnas (; frp, Vonâs) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Vonnas has a famous restaurant with three stars in the Guide Michelin, the Hotel Restaurant Georges Blanc. Geography The Veyle forms part of the commune's northeast ...

and

Polliat Polliat () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Geography The Veyle flows west through the southern part of the commune. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 393 communes of th ...

. As of 2020, the station is owned and operated by the

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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

Mézériat station was put into service on 6 June 1857 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée (LM), along with the opening of 34 km of railway from

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 ...

along the left bank of the

Saône river The Saône ( , ; frp, Sona; lat, Arar) is a river in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon, at the southern end of the Presqu'île. The name deri ...

. Due to delays in the construction of a viaduct to cross the river, a boat service was organized to transport passengers across the water, with an additional journey time of 30 minutes. The completion of the viaduct, permitted the continuation of the line after 20 July 1857. In 1911, Mézériat station became part of the railway network operated by the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM). The station was originally equipped to receive and expedite private dispatches, but was soon opened to complete freight services, with the exclusion of horses in stable wagons and automobiles. During the course of 2012, the station underwent renovations as part of a

-wide program to improve the quality of

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. In 2019, the

estimated that 41,775 passengers traveled through the station.

Railway history

The old passenger building, no longer used by the

, was bought and renovated by the commune in 2014. The total cost of the project was 205,843 euros, with funding support from the Departmental Council.

Services

Passenger services

Classified as a PANG (''point d'accès non géré''), the station is unstaffed and equipped with automatic ticket dispensers. Passage between the two platforms is possible via the nearby road-overpass.

Train services

As of 2020, the station is served by the following services: * Regional services (

30)

Mâcon Mâcon (), historically anglicised as Mascon, is a city in east-central France. It is the prefecture of the department of Saône-et-Loire in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Mâcon is home to near 34,000 residents, who are referred to in French as M� ...

... Bourge-en-Bresse ... Ambérieu.

Intermodality

In addition to a parking lot for passengers, the station is equipped with secure bicycle storage facilities. The station is also served by

TER Ter or TER may refer to: Places * River Ter, in Essex, England * Ter (river), in Catalonia * Ter (department), a region in France * Torre (river), (Slovene: ''Ter''), a river in Italy * Ter, Ljubno, a settlement in the Municipality of Ljubno ob S ...

buses between

and

. File:Gare Mézériat 07.jpg, Platform shelter. File:Gare Mézériat 18.jpg, View of the station and platforms. File:Gare Mézériat 11.jpg, To the right of the road overpass. File:Arrêt bus TER Gare SNCF Mézériat 1.jpg, TER Bus Stop.

References

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