Vonnas station (

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: ''Gare de Vonnas'') is a

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serving the

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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 ...

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

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. It is located at

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(KP) 16.950 on the Mâcon-Ambérieu railway. Put into service by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée (LM) in 1857, the station would later become part of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée's (PLM) network. 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

Vonnas station was opened on 6 June 1857 by the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Lyon à la Méditerranée (LM), along with the opening of a 34 km section of track from

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on the left bank of the

Saône 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 ...

. Trains initially stopped on the bank of the river as a result of delays in viaduct construction. A boat service enable passengers to reach their destination in roughly 30 minutes. The completion of the viaduct occurred on 20 July 1857, enabling trains to reach their final destination. In 1911, the station became part of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (PLM), network of stations and stops. The station remained it status of a passenger station during the 20th century, with station installations undergoing renovations in 2012 as part of a

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program to renovate stations and halts. In 2019, the

estimated that 91,327 passengers traveled through the station.

Services

Passenger services

The SNCF station is composed of a passenger building, equipped with ticket-windows and a passenger waiting room. The station building is open from Monday to Friday, excluding holidays, while platforms are accessible seven-days per week from the arrival of the first train to the departure of the last one.

Train services

As of 2020, the station is served by

line 30 serves between Mâcon-Ville station and

Ambérieu station Ambérieu station or Ambérieu-en-Bugey station ( French: ''Gare d'Ambérieu'' or ''Gare d'Ambérieu-en-Bugey'') is a railway station serving the town Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Ain department, eastern France. It is situated on the Lyon–Geneva railway, ...

Intermodality

The station is equipped with space for bicycle storage and vehicle parking. In addition to train services, Vonnas station is also served by TER buses between

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� ...

and

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 ...

. File:Vonnas-FR-01-gare SNCF-10.jpg, Service tracks. File:Vonnas-FR-01-gare SNCF-06.jpg, Parking and bike storage. File:Gare Vonnas 13.jpg, Platform shelter. File:Gare Vonnas 16.jpg, Passenger crossing.

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