Vevey railway station (French: Gare de Vevey) is a public transport hub not far from the shore of Lake Geneva. It serves the municipality of Vevey, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Vevey
The entrance to the station in 2008
General information
Location	Place de la Gare Vevey Switzerland
Coordinates	46°27′46.807″N 6°50′36.406″E
Elevation	386 m (1,266 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Simplon line Vevey–Chexbres line Vevey–Les Pléiades line
Distance	18.4 km (11.4 mi) from Lausanne[1]
Platforms	5
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera
Connections	VMCA buses and trolleybuses[2]
Other information
Fare zone	70 (mobilis)[3]
History
Opened	2 April 1861 (1861-04-02)
Passengers
2018	24,100 per weekday[4] (SBB)
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Lausanne towards Geneva Airport InterRegio IR 90 Montreux towards Brig Lausanne towards Annemasse RegioExpress Montreux towards St-Maurice Cully towards Renens VD RegioExpress Limited service La Tour-de-Peilz towards St-Maurice Preceding station RER Vaud Following station Cully towards Vallorbe S2 La Tour-de-Peilz towards St-Maurice St-Saphorin towards Grandson S5 Vevey-Funi towards Puidoux S7 Terminus Preceding station Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera Following station Terminus Regio Gilamont towards Les Pléiades
Location

SBB-CFF-FFS passenger trains call here while operating on the lakeside section of the standard gauge Simplon railway line. The station is also the western terminus of the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey-Chexbres to Puidoux-Chexbres on the Olten–Lausanne railway line, and a metre gauge line from Vevey to Blonay and Les Pléiades.[1]

History

Vevey station was opened on 2 April 1861, when the then Jura–Simplon Railway (JS) opened the Lausanne–Villeneuve section of its standard gauge Simplon railway line to Sion. This line is now owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.

In 1902, operations began on the present day Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera metre gauge line to Blonay and Les Pléiades. In 1904, the line to Châtel-Saint-Denis, 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 300 metres (980 ft) 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, 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 Blonay and Les Pléiades.

• 
  entrance hall, main entrance (2016)
• 
  entrance hall, underpass and stairs to platform with track #1 (2019)
• 
  station building (2016)
• 
  station building (1995), with a third track
• 
  track #7, metre gauge, MVR train to Blonay (2016)

Services

As of the December 2021 timetable change,^[update] the following services call at Vevey:[5]

Swiss Federal Railways

• InterRegio: half-hourly service between Geneva Airport and Brig.
• RegioExpress:
  • half-hourly service to Annemasse and hourly service to St-Maurice.
  • single daily round-trip between Renens VD and St-Maurice.

RER Vaud

• RER Vaud:
  • S2 / S5: half-hourly service to Aigle and hourly service to Vallorbe and Grandson; hourly service to Bex on weekdays and limited service from Aigle to St-Maurice.
  • S7: hourly service to Puidoux.

Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera

• Regio: half-hourly service to Blonay, with every other train continuing to Les Pléiades.

Bus service

This section needs to be updated. (December 2020)

The VMCV serves the station (Vevey Gare) with various lines:

• Line 201 (a trolleybus line): Vevey Funi–Vevey Gare–La Tour-de-Peilz–Montreux–Chillon–Villeneuve
• 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–Châtel-Saint-Denis/Bossonnens

References

External links

• Media related to Vevey railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Vevey railway station – SBB

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