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The station is a terminus station served by an average of four trains an hour. They all call at Geneva main station (Genève-Cornavin) (6/7 minutes away) and continue to Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Fribourg, Bern, Lucerne, Zurich, Winterthur, St. Gallen, and/or the Valais Alps (Sion & Brig): [6] [7] InterCity
Local Régio trains served the Geneva to Coppet section of the modern Léman Express since the opening of the railway in the 19th century, with local service continuing to Nyon and Lausanne. In 2004, as part of the Rail 2000 railway upgrade program, a third track was inaugurated between Geneva and Coppet, allowing service to be upgraded to a ...
The Geneva–La Chatelaine section was electrified with the SNCF 1500 volt DC system, but with the opening of the Geneva Airport railway in 1987 additional tracks electrified at 15 kV AC were added. As part of the Rail 2000 project, a third track was put into operation between Coppet and Geneva in 2004 after four years of construction and ...
By changing trains at Zürich Hauptbahnhof most other places in Switzerland can be reached in a few hours. The second largest airport of the country, Geneva Airport (IATA: GVA, ICAO: LSGG), handled 16.5 million passengers in 2016. [11] The airport has a single runway, the longest of its kind in Switzerland at 3,900 metres (12,800 ft), built in ...
Schematic Network Map of trams in Geneva Network Map of the trolleybusses in Geneva A trolleybus of TPG. Geneva Public Transport [1] (French: Transports publics genevois, TPG) operates most of the public transportation system in canton of Geneva, Switzerland, including the city of Geneva. The agency's head office is in Grand-Lancy, Lancy. [2]
It links the CFF route Lausanne – Geneva Cornavin – Geneva Airport and the SNCF route Geneva Cornavin – Bellegarde-sur-Valserine – Lyon with lines in the Haute Savoie serving Thonon-les-Bains, Évian-les-Bains, and the Arve valley to St Gervais and Chamonix as well as Annemasse to Annecy. [3] The origins of the project go back to 1850.
The InterCity, abbreviated IC, is a category of mainline train services in Switzerland operated by Swiss Federal Railways, connecting the country's major cities, the range of services (in Switzerland) of which is located between InterRegio (IR) (inter-regional) and EuroCity (EC).
Geneva railway station (French: Gare de Genève), also known as Geneva Cornavin railway station, is Geneva's main train station, located in the centre of the city. The immediate area surrounding it is known as Cornavin ; both names can be used interchangeably.