Palézieux railway station serves the village of
Palézieux
Palézieux () is a village and former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Since 2012 it forms part of the municipality of Oron.
History
Palézieux is first mentioned in 1134 as ''de Palaisol''.
Un ...
, within the municipality of
Oron
Oron may refer to:
"Light" or someone that is "being able" or "capable" of doing anything posible or impossible.
*Oron people a multi ethnic group of people living In the lower Cross River basin.
*Oron Nation, one of the major states in the old Ca ...
, in the
canton
Canton may refer to:
Administrative division terminology
* Canton (administrative division), territorial/administrative division in some countries, notably Switzerland
* Township (Canada), known as ''canton'' in Canadian French
Arts and ent ...
of
Vaud
Vaud ( ; french: (Canton de) Vaud, ; german: (Kanton) Waadt, or ), more formally the canton of Vaud, is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of ten districts and its capital city is Lausanne. Its coat of arms b ...
,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
. The station is located at the junction of the standard gauge
Lausanne–Bern and
Palézieux–Lyss lines of
Swiss Federal Railways
Swiss Federal Railways (german: link=no, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, ''SBB''; french: link=no, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, ''CFF''; it, Ferrovie federali svizzere, ''FFS'') is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usuall ...
(SBB), from
Lausanne
, neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR-74), ...
. The station is also the terminus of the gauge
Palézieux–Bulle–Montbovon line of
Transports publics Fribourgeois
The Transports Publics Fribourgeois (TPF) is a renaming of the former Chemins de fer Fribourgeois Gruyère-Fribourg-Morat when the municipal Transport en commun de Fribourg (TF) was absorbed in 2000.
Lines
The company is a railway operator w ...
. Palézieux's other station, , is located to the north on the Palézieux–Lyss line.
The station has two parts, one for the national railways (SBB) and the other for the metre gauge line; it is the only station on the Transports publics Fribourgeois network which is in the canton of Vaud. There are three through-platforms on the SBB mainline, with further platforms at the adjacent metre gauge railway terminus. The station is staffed by SBB Monday to Friday. There are 179 car parking spaces.
SBB-CFF-FFS
Palézieux station information (''English'')
Services
the following services stop at Palézieux:RER Vaud
RER Vaud (french: Réseau express régional vaudois) is an S-Bahn network in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is centered on Lausanne and began operating in December 2004.
History
With the December 2022 timetable change the RER Vaud network ...
:
** / : half-hourly service to ; weekday rush-hour service continues from Palézieux to .
** : hourly service except on Sundays to .
** : hourly service between Lausanne and .
* RER Fribourg
RER Fribourg or RER Fribourg , Freiburg (french: Réseau express régional fribourgeois, german: S-Bahn Freiburg) is an S-Bahn network in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The network has two hubs, Bulle and Fribourg, and began operating in ...
/ : half-hourly service on weekdays and hourly service on weekends to and hourly service to .
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Railway stations in the canton of Vaud
Swiss Federal Railways stations
Railway stations opened in 1862