Genève-Cornavin railway station

Geneva

Genève
Geneva; Genève
	The main (south) entrance to the station building in 2019
Location	Geneva; Switzerland
Coordinates	46°12′36.781″N 6°8′32.809″E / 46.21021694°N 6.14244694°ECoordinates: 46°12′36.781″N 6°8′32.809″E / 46.21021694°N 6.14244694°E
Elevation	392 m (1,286 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	CEVA rail; Lausanne–Geneva line; Lyon–Geneva line;
Distance	60.3 km (37.5 mi) from Lausanne
Platforms	4
Tracks	8
Train operators	SNCF; Swiss Federal Railways;
Connections	Tram lines 14, 15, and 18; tpg buses and trolleybuses;
Construction
Architect	[fr] (1931)
Other information
Fare zone	10 (unireso)
History
Opened	1858
Rebuilt	1931; 2010-2014 (reconstruction);
Previous names	Geneva Cornavain
Passengers
2018	70,700 per working day
Services
	Bellegarde towards Lyon-Part-Dieu
	Bellegarde towards Chambéry-Challes-les-Eaux
Location
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Geneva railway station (French: Gare de Genève), formerly 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.

The station has over 400 train departures every day from its eight through-platforms. Platforms 7 and 8 have French and Swiss border controls. Long distance and regional express trains leave for France without making any stops in Switzerland. Another reason to separate the tracks is the different electrical standards of the relevant railway system on either side. The French system uses 25 kV at 50 Hz AC, but the Swiss system uses 15 kV AC at 16.7 Hz.

The station connects to one Swiss mainline, the Lausanne–Geneva line, which links the city with the rest of Switzerland, to the east. Many long-distance trains from this line continue to and terminate at the airport, 6 minutes away. There is also significant traffic to France westwards along the Lyon-Geneva line, which, for the first few kilometres, runs as a single track line alongside the double-track line to the airport. Traffic to France includes long-distance TGVs to Paris and southern France and regional trains to Lyon via Bellegarde. Cornavin is also the hub of the Léman Express network, with six routes in service. Many of these routes travel over the newly-opened CEVA, which leads to Annemasse.^[1]

Facilities[]

The facilities at the station include a police station, a pharmacy, several supermarkets, coffee shops, bakeries, food stands, clothing shops and multiple other establishments.

Nearby area features[]

Located directly outside the station are bus and tram stops for Transports Publics Genevois services to all over Geneva city, its canton and nearby French locales, a taxi rank, banks, cash machines, post offices, hotels, cinemas, jewellers, book shops, money exchange services, restaurants, bars, and fast food restaurants.

In popular culture[]

The station entrance and a platform is seen in The Adventures of Tintin comic The Calculus Affair (1956).

Planned extension of the railway station[]

The Swiss Federal Railways announced they would extend the railway station by constructing two new railway tracks. The station needs extending due to the planned increase in traffic over the coming years. The initial project cost 800 million Swiss francs and involved the demolition of 350 dwellings next to the station. A second project supported by residents of the neighborhood plans to build the two new tracks under the station with a total cost around 1.7 billion Swiss francs.^[5]

The Swiss Federal Rail plans for the new extension to be completed by 2025.^[6]

In April 2013, an initiative was launched to claim the extension under the station by the "Collectif 500", a neighborhood association.^[7]

Services[]

The following services stop at Geneva:^[8]

TGV Lyria:
- service every two hours to Paris-Lyon.
- three trains per day to Lausanne.
- one daily round-trip to Marseille-Saint-Charles in the summer.
EuroCity: four trains per day to Milano Centrale, with one train continuing from Milano Centrale to Venezia Santa Lucia.
InterCity#Switzerland: half-hourly service between Geneva Airport and Zürich Hauptbahnhof, with every other train continuing to St. Gallen.
InterRegio: half-hourly service to Geneva Airport and Brig and hourly service to Lucerne.
TER: service to Valence-Ville, Lyon-Part-Dieu, Bellegarde, and Chambéry-Challes-les-Eaux.
RegioExpress: half-hourly service between Annemasse and Vevey, with every other train continuing from Vevey to St-Maurice.
Léman Express:
- L1/L2/L3/L4: service every fifteen minutes between Coppet and Annemasse; from Annemasse every hour to Annecy, and every two hours to and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet.
- L5: service to La Plaine.
- L6: service to Bellegarde.

Gallery[]

Tracks 6 and 7

Notes[]

^ Without SNCF figures

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 68. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Plan tpg multimodal" (PDF) (in French). Geneva Public Transport. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
^ "Plan tarifaire" (in French). unireso. 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
^ "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
^ "Extension de Cornavin: Genève veut des chiffres". Tribune de Genève – via www.tdg.ch.
^ http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/expertise-trancher-deux-variantes-extension-cornavin/story/26655924?track
^ "Une initiative est lancée pour agrandir Cornavin en souterrain". Tribune de Genève – via www.tdg.ch.
^ "Départ: Gare de Genéve" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in French). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

External links[]

Media related to Genève Cornavin railway station at Wikimedia Commons
Genève-Cornavin railway station – SBB
Les principaux éléments historiques en relation avec CEVA (in French)

[5] Without SNCF figures

[saw-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 68. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

[2] "Plan tpg multimodal" (PDF) (in French). Geneva Public Transport. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

[3] "Plan tarifaire" (in French). unireso. 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.

[SBB-4] "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.

[6] "Extension de Cornavin: Genève veut des chiffres". Tribune de Genève – via www.tdg.ch.

[7] ttp://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/expertise-trancher-deux-variantes-extension-cornavin/story/26655924?track

[8] "Une initiative est lancée pour agrandir Cornavin en souterrain". Tribune de Genève – via www.tdg.ch.

[depart-9] "Départ: Gare de Genéve" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in French). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2020.

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show v t Geneva
Landmarks	Palace of Nations
Transport	Geneva Public Transport Buses Trams Trolleybuses Genève-Cornavin railway station Geneva Airport (nearby)
Education	University of Geneva International School of Geneva École Japonaise Complémentaire de Genève Deutsche Schule Genf (nearby)
Culture	Geneva Seal
This list is incomplete. Deutsche Schule Genf is in Vernier, and the airport is in Cointrin

hide v t SNCF/Swiss Federal Railways Lyon–Geneva railway
France (SNCF)	Lyon-Perrache Lyon-Jean Macé Lyon-Part-Dieu Ambérieu Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey Bellegarde Pougny-Chancy
Switzerland (SBB)	La Plaine Russin Satigny Zimeysa Meyrin Vernier Genève-Cornavin