Geneva Airport railway station

  • Railway line Lausanne- Geneva

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The Geneva Airport station is the railway station of Geneva Airport. He is the only pure long-distance traffic station in Switzerland, which was planned as such and is operated as such. The operators of the Swiss Federal Railways ( SBB).

Location and architecture

The station is located on the municipality of Le Grand- Saconnex as an underground terminal station under the square in front of the airport, 250 meters from the terminal. Also nearby, about 500 meters away, there is the Geneva Convention and Exhibition Palexpo. In addition to the Zurich airport train station and the underground S-Bahn Museum Street of the Zurich main station, it is one of the three underground stations on the SBB network. The head station comprises two central platforms and was in a postmodern style similar to the Zurich airport station built. In contrast to this, the signs with the station name or the track and sector information is kept in the SBB typical blue.

History

The station was opened in 1987. For connection to the city of Geneva 's Cornavin Train Station, the railway line Lausanne- Geneva was extended throughout double. Between Cornavin and the service station La Châtelaine it divides the trackbed with the SNCF route to Lyon, the section is expanded because of the different line voltages to three lanes (two SBB - tracks, a SNCF track). A capacity expansion of the station 's long-term planned by 2030 as part of the expansion of the railway line Lausanne- Geneva. The extension of the Canton of Geneva is around 35 million Swiss francs contribute less related to an expansion of the station itself but to a conversion of the terminal node La Chatelaine.

Traffic

The station is served by five hourly long-distance trains, the journey time to Cornavin six minutes. The two two- hourly free ICN trains to Basel, or St. Gallen overlap to a hour.

  • IC Geneva Airport Geneva -Lausanne - Fribourg- Bern- Zurich HB- Zurich Airport -Winterthur -St. Gallen
  • ICN Geneva Airport Geneva -Morges, Yverdon- les- Bains- Neuchâtel- Bahnhof Biel / Bienne, Solothurn Olten station Aarau- Zurich HB- Zurich Airport -Winterthur -St. Bile every two hours
  • ICN Geneva Flughafen-Genf-Morges-Yverdon-les-Bains-Neuchâtel-Biel/Bienne - Grenchen North Delémont - running -Basel SBB every two hours
  • IR Geneva Airport Geneva -Lausanne -Fribourg -Bern -Luzern
  • IR Geneva Airport Geneva -Lausanne -Vevey -Montreux - Aigle -Sion -Visp- Brig twice an hour

It does not take local trains from this station. However, all these long-distance trains can be used free of extra charge, and offer unreserved seats. You can thus cover the existing needs of the transport between the stations of Geneva and Geneva airport easily with.

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