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Finally in 1844 the sections between Strasbourg and Koenigshoffen, and between Saint-Louis and the France–Switzerland border were opened. [3] With its southern terminus at Basel St. Johann, it was the first railway line to serve Switzerland, before the Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn. [5]
The Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway (French: Ligne de Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet à Vallorcine), also known as the Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine Line, is a single-track 36.5 km (22.7 mi) long metre gauge railway in France connecting the SNCF's Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet station with Vallorcine station and the border with Switzerland (Le Châtelard) through Chamonix. [2]
The France–Switzerland border is 572 km (355 mi) long. [1] [2] Its current path is mostly the product of the Congress of Vienna of 1815, with the accession of Geneva, Neuchâtel and Valais to the Swiss Confederation, but it has since been modified in detail, the last time being in 2002.
There are a few railway lines crossing the France–Switzerland border, the most-frequented ones being the Lyon–Geneva railway and the Strasbourg–Basel railway lines. TGV Lyria, a joint-venture between SBB and the French SNCF, operates high-speed trains from Paris or southern France to Genève-Cornavin and Lausanne or Basel
At the time of study, services carried some 7'000 commuters a day; with the improved network this was expected to grow to over 35'000 and cut up to 50'000 car journeys between France and Switzerland. The largest civil engineering project within the scheme was the CEVA line from Cornavin to Annemasse. Connecting the two stations had been ...
In addition to long-distance services, there are also many cross-border trains at the local/regional level. The city of Basel in Switzerland, for example, is at the center of a trinational commuter rail network (known as S-Bahn in German-speaking regions) connecting stations in Switzerland, France
230,000 km (140,000 mi) were in Asia and used for both freight and passenger service. [1] In America and Europe, many low-fare airlines and motorways compete with rail for passenger traffic. Asia has experienced a large growth in high-speed rail: its 257bn passenger-kilometres represent 72% of total world high-speed rail passenger traffic. [1]
Frasne–Les Verrières (Switzerland, via Pontarlier) Dijon–Vallorbe (Switzerland, via Dole and Frasne) Lyon–Geneva railway (Switzerland, via Ambérieu and Bellegarde) Annemasse–Geneva railway (Switzerland, partly under construction) Longeray-Léaz–Le Bouveret (Switzerland, via Annemasse and Évian)