Vevey railway station (french: Gare de Vevey) is a public transport hub not far from the shore of

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. It serves the

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Vevey Vevey (; frp, Vevê; german: label=former German, Vivis) is a town in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, on the north shore of Lake Geneva, near Lausanne. The German name Vivis is no longer commonly used. It was the seat of the district of ...

, in the

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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 ...

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passenger trains call here while operating on the lakeside section of the

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. The station is also the western terminus of the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey-Chexbres to

Puidoux Puidoux () is a municipality in Switzerland in the canton of Vaud, located in the district of Lavaux-Oron. History Puidoux is first mentioned in 1134 as ''Puidos''. It was part of Saint-Saphorin until 1810 when it became an independent municipal ...

-Chexbres on the

Olten–Lausanne railway line The Mittellandlinie ("Midland line") is a railway route in Switzerland. It runs from Olten via Bern and Fribourg to Lausanne. The Olten–Bern railway was completed in 1858 and two years later the Lausanne–Bern railway was opened. In addition, ...

, and a

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line from Vevey to

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and

Les Pléiades Les Pléiades (1,397 m) are a mountain of the Swiss Prealps, overlooking Lake Geneva in the Swiss canton of Vaud. They are located north of Blonay. A railway connects Vevey and Blonay to a secondary summit (1,361 m) of Les Pléiades. The railwa ...

History

Vevey station was opened on 2 April 1861, when the then Jura–Simplon Railway (JS) opened the

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–

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section of its standard gauge Simplon railway line to

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. This line is now owned and operated by

. In 1902, operations began on the present day

Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera The Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera (MVR) is a Swiss railway company. It was formed in 2001 from the merger of four railway companies: the Chemins de fer électriques Veveysans, the Chemin de fer Les Avants-Sonloup, the Chemin de fer Mont ...

metre gauge line to Blonay and Les Pléiades. In 1904, the line to

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, also metre gauge, became available for traffic. In the same year, the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey–Chexbres (VCh) line was opened to link Vevey with Puidoux-Chexbres. The metre gauge line to Chatel-Saint-Denis was closed in 1969 and was replaced by VMCV bus line 13.

Location

The station is about north of the lakeside marketplace. In the immediate vicinity can be found the ''Centre Saint-Antoine'' and ''Midi-Coindet'' shopping centres, which combine to form one of the largest shopping facilities in western Switzerland. Next to the station, in the old post office building, is the Coop Pronto office, amongst others.

Layout

As at the nearby

Montreux railway station Montreux railway station (french: Gare de Montreux) is the largest of the railway stations serving the municipality of Montreux, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. All of the SBB-CFF-FFS standard gauge passenger trains operating on the Simplon ...

, access to the main platform is from the first floor of the station building, instead of the ground floor. The track system comprises one side and two centre platforms, along with some goods tracks. Tracks 1 and 3 are reserved for SBB-CFF-FFS traffic on the Simplon railway line (there is no track 2). Track 5, which is located with track 3 and the short track 4 on one of the centre platforms, serves the Train des Vignes as S31 to Puidoux-Chexbres. The other centre platform, with tracks 6 (standard gauge) and 7 (metre gauge), which is in the western part of a small curve, usually serves only the MVR traffic to

and

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Services

the following services call at Vevey:

Swiss Federal Railways

* InterRegio: half-hourly service between and . *

RegioExpress RegioExpress (RE) is a fast regional train service in Switzerland, run by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS) or other railway companies (such as TILO, BLS, tpf, transN, THURBO or RhB). It is comparable to the Regional-Express in Germany, ...

: ** half-hourly service (hourly on weekends) to and hourly service to . On weekends, hourly service to Geneva Airport. ** single daily round-trip between and St-Maurice.

RER Vaud

* RER Vaud: ** / : half-hourly (hourly on weekends) service between and ; hourly service to ; hourly service to on weekdays. ** : hourly service to .

Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera

* Regio: half-hourly service to , with every other train continuing to .

Bus service

The VMCV serves the station (''Vevey Gare'') with various lines: * Line 201 (a

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line): Vevey Funi–Vevey Gare–La Tour-de-Peilz–

Montreux Montreux (, , ; frp, Montrolx) is a Swiss municipality and town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps. It belongs to the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, and has a population of approximat ...

–Chillon–

* Line 202: Vevey Gare–Crosets–Gilamont–Entre deux Villes–Vevey Gare * Line 211: Vevey– Corsier– Corseaux * Line 212: Vevey–Funiculaire–Corsier–Nant/Fenil Vieille Rte. * Line 213: Vevey–

/ Bossonnens

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vevey railway station Railway stations in the canton of Vaud Swiss Federal Railways stations

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 ...

Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1861