Lausanne railway station

  • Railway line Lausanne- Geneva
  • Midland line
  • Simplon line

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The Lausanne railway station is a rail transport hub in the Vaud capital Lausanne. It is located in the property of the Swiss Federal Railway and is served by trains of the SBB, Lyria and Elipsos as well as the Métro Lausanne.

  • 5.1 Highway
  • REV 5.2
  • 5.3 Metro Lausanne

Location

The station is on the railway routes to Brig- Domodossola, to Geneva to Biel - Olten and Bern. In the city itself, it lies south of the city center increased ( Flon ) and north Ouchys.

History

The station was opened by the Compagnie de l' Ouest- Suisse on May 5, 1856 the course of construction of the route from Yverdon -Renens and erected its first reception building. With the opening of routes from Geneva ( 1858), Villeneuve (1861 ) and Fribourg ( 1862), the station of the Vaud capital developed, however, an important railway junction early 1863 had to be adapted to the increased needs of the buildings, it was with renovations and additions done to the existing building. When in 1906 the opening of the Simplon Tunnel was imminent and it became clear that through this opening, the importance of Lausanne is a railway junction rise yet, a new station building was provided because one would no longer meet the requirements of 1856.

The Jura - Simplon railway began in 1899 with the planning of a complete remodeling of the station, which would also house a reconstruction of the station building next to the extension of the railway track. These expansion plans were approved by the Railway Department with reservations on March 13, 1900. The then modified project was submitted in February 1903 again from the JS. Shortly thereafter, the JS was integrated into the SBB, and this especially criticized the planned renovation of the station building. Instead of a rebuild would be preferable, especially for operational reasons, a new building. Plans for the extension of the railway tracks were, however, considered useful and implemented with some changes and additions. This was necessary in view of the opening of the Simplon Tunnel in 1906, as the existing facilities no longer met the needs.

After the tracks were rebuilt in 1908, you wrote a " competition for obtaining facade designs for the service, reception and restaurant building » in. This contest was by J. Taillens and Ch Debois from Lausanne won with the project " APS ", which worked as an employee for this project Mendod E. and A. Leverrière. These four architects was given the further processing of the SBB District Directorate I. As a basis, however, should serve not the top ranked project, but third-placed project " Denis Papin, " which had been submitted by the architectural offices Monod & Laverrière in collaboration with Taillens & Dubois. The construction work was started on 1 January 1911 where already on 4 January 1911, a provisional arrangement for passenger had to be put into operation in order to cancel the old building can. The building part of the station building was put into operation on 22 December 1913 the restoration part on 1 April 1916. The grand pianos for rail service could be completed, however, until the autumn of 1916.

1984 reached the first TGV Lausanne. In order for the station to Geneva, which was connected in 1981 as the first non- French city grid of high-speed train, the second destination was Switzerland far. 1995 the road to Lausanne was seasonal extended even to Brig. Stations such as Bern ( 1987), Zurich ( 1997) and Basel (2007) followed later.

1992 to 1996 the station was extensively renovated, but without changing the components of the station. 2008 finally the metro station of the Métro Lausanne was put into operation, which ensures, among other operations to the station Lausanne- Flon, starting point of the Chemin de fer Lausanne- Echallens - Bercher, and also the port of Ouchy.

Architecture

Alter Bahnhof (Lausanne I II)

The building was constructed according to the plans of L' Ouest from the construction company La Harpe & Bertolini. The engineers responsible for the construction of the station were Dériaz Adrien Rochat and Samuel. The first station of Lausanne was a single storey building with a hipped roof that was not broken. This building was built during the renovation in 1863 to the new building.

The first project, with bilateral extensions, found no support for the Directorate. The Board of Directors of Compagnie de L' Ouest Suisse decided an extensive enlargement project on 29 March 1862. It was decided to double the existing building and growing a station buffet in the west. The existing old building dating back to 1856 has been integrated into a successful architectural achievement in the new building. The interiors have been adapted to the new needs and also designed the exterior façade new. The main entrance was a raised transverse roof tower where on the station side of the square a clock was installed. This main entrance was flanked by two projecting projections. From the single-storey design is not deviated. Between 1876 and 1878, the buffet and the toilet facilities were enlarged. Here, the facade was redesigned. Only with this change, the two corner projections were built, resembling the existing projections of the main entrance.

Today's station ( Lausanne III)

The train hall was erected by the company Wartmann & Vallet from Geneva in a four-month installation, which was completed in March 1912. The design is a collaborative effort of the Bosshard companies from Näffels, Buss AG of Basel and Swiss from Albisrieden, Zurich. The ornamental details on the pedestals and chapters are attributed to the four architects of the host building.

The massive projecting concourse and the three lateral pavilions are arranged asymmetrically. The building also adorn high window openings. The ornamentation is kept in a discreet and refined Art Nouveau style. The station buffet is almost completely intact, with its wood paneling and painted panels from 1916.

Track system

The station comprises 9 unincorporated Quiet, of which the track 70 is an early ending before the reception building of railway siding is and is subject to the trains to Payerne. The track 2 is a Platform -free transit rails and is used primarily for freight trains and transfer trips. The other nine through tracks extend over two pages and three central platforms, which are covered with a steel and glass sloping roof. Most of the plant is used in the following way in the passenger:

  • Track 70: S21 and RE to Payerne
  • Track 1: Intercity train to Zurich -St. Gallen and InterRegio to Lucerne
  • Track 2: Transit Railway
  • Track 3: Trains in the direction of Montreux -Brig
  • Track 4: S2 according Palézieux and long-distance trains from St. Gallen and Lucerne in the direction of Geneva
  • Track 5: RegioExpress to Geneva TGV to Paris -Gare de Lyon
  • Track 6: RegioExpress to Geneva and IR from Brig to Geneva, when at the same time operates an EC
  • Track 7: Long-distance trains from Brig / Milan towards Geneva, Morges and S4 to S7 to Vallorbe
  • Track 8: Long-distance trains over the Jura foot line after Biel-Basel/St. Gallen and S1 and S11 to Yverdon
  • Track 9: S3 after Allaman and isolated RE to Geneva

West of the station there are extensive rail systems and storage sheds including a turntable. East of additional sidings are achievable. For the settlement of a freight marshalling yard in Denges 10 km away, is being used.

Traffic

Long-distance traffic

  • TGV ( Brig - ) Lausanne - Vallorbe - Dijon - Paris Gare de Lyon
  • EN Zurich HB - Bern - Fribourg - Lausanne - Geneva - Perpignan - Figueres - Girona - Barcelona França
  • EC Geneva - Lausanne - Montreux - Sion - Visp - Brig - Domodossola ( - Milano Centrale - Venezia Santa Lucia)
  • ICN Lausanne - Biel / Bienne - Olten - Zurich HB - Airport Zurich - Winterthur - St. Gallen
  • ICN Lausanne - Biel / Bienne - Grenchen Nord - Moutier - Delémont - Running - Basel SBB
  • IC Geneva Airport - Geneva - Lausanne - Fribourg - Bern - Zurich HB - Airport Zurich - Winterthur - St. Gallen
  • IR Geneva Airport - Geneva - Nyon - Morges - Lausanne - Vevey - Montreux - Martigny - Sion - Leuk - Visp - Brig
  • IR Geneva Airport - Geneva - Nyon - Morges - Lausanne - Palézieux - Romont - Fribourg - Bern - Zofingen - Sursee - Lucerne
  • RE Lausanne - Renens - Morges - Nyon - Geneva

REV

  • S 1 Yverdon - Lausanne - Villeneuve
  • S 2 Vallorbe - Lausanne - Palézieux
  • S 3 Allaman - Lausanne - Villeneuve
  • S 4 Morges - Lausanne - Palézieux
  • S 11 Yverdon- les- Bains - Lausanne
  • S 21 Lausanne - Payerne

Metro Lausanne

  • M2 Ouchy - Flon - Gare CFF - Epalinges

Accidents

In the night from 28 to 29 June 1994, a 690 meter long freight train on the way to Basel derailed on track 3 of the station. It toppled three cistern wagons, filled with thionyl chloride. Through the use of the fire a bigger disaster was avoided. Rail traffic was suspended for three days; during the clean-up eleven people suffered slight injuries.

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