Vevey railway station

Vevey railway station (French: Gare de Vevey) is a public transport hub not far from the shore of Lake Geneva. It serves the municipality of Vevey, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Vevey
The entrance to the station in 2008
General information
Location	Place de la Gare Vevey Switzerland
Coordinates	46°27′46.8″N 6°50′36.2″E
Elevation	386 m (1,266 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Simplon line Vevey–Chexbres line Vevey–Les Pléiades line
Distance	18.4 km (11.4 mi) from Lausanne[1]
Platforms	5
Tracks	6
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera
Connections	VMCA buses and trolleybuses[2]
Construction
Parking	Yes (46 spaces)
Bicycle facilities	Yes (434 spaces)
Accessible	Partly
Other information
Station code	8501200 (VV)
IATA code	ZKZ
Fare zone	70 (mobilis)[3]
History
Opened	2 April 1861 (1861-04-02)
Passengers
2023	26'700 per weekday[4] (MVR, RegionAlps, SBB)
Services
Preceding station SBB CFF FFS Following station Lausanne towards Geneva Airport IR 90 Montreux towards Brig IR 95 Lausanne towards Annemasse or Geneva Airport RE33 Montreux towards St-Maurice or Martigny Lausanne Terminus RegioExpress Limited service La Tour-de-Peilz towards St-Maurice Burier One-way operation Palézieux towards Fribourg/Freiburg VosAlpes Express Aigle towards Le Châble VS Preceding station RER Vaud Following station Cully towards Vallorbe R3 La Tour-de-Peilz towards Bex St-Saphorin towards Le Brassus or Vallorbe R4 Chexbres-Village towards Palézieux R7 Terminus Corseaux-Cornalles Limited service towards Palézieux Preceding station Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera Following station Vevey Vignerons towards Blonay or Les Pléiades R35 Terminus
Location

SBB-CFF-FFS passenger trains call here while operating on the lakeside section of the standard gauge Simplon railway line. The station is also the western terminus of the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey-Chexbres to Puidoux-Chexbres on the Olten–Lausanne railway line, and a metre gauge line from Vevey to Blonay and Les Pléiades.^[1]

History

station (before 1902)

Vevey station was opened on 2 April 1861, when the then Jura–Simplon Railway (JS) opened the Lausanne–Villeneuve section of its standard gauge Simplon railway line to Sion. This line is now owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.

In 1902, operations began on the present day Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera metre gauge line to Blonay and Les Pléiades. In 1904, the line to Châtel-Saint-Denis, also metre gauge, became available for traffic. In the same year, the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey–Chexbres (VCh) line was opened to link Vevey with Puidoux-Chexbres.

The metre gauge line to Chatel-Saint-Denis was closed in 1969 and was replaced by VMCV bus line 13.

Location

The station is about 300 metres (980 ft) north of the lakeside marketplace. In the immediate vicinity can be found the Centre Saint-Antoine and Midi-Coindet shopping centres, which combine to form one of the largest shopping facilities in western Switzerland. Next to the station, in the old post office building, is the Coop Pronto office, amongst others.

Layout

As at the nearby Montreux railway station, access to the main platform is from the first floor of the station building, instead of the ground floor. The track system comprises one side and two centre platforms, along with some goods tracks.

Tracks 1 and 3 are reserved for SBB-CFF-FFS traffic on the Simplon railway line (there is no track 2).

Track 5, which is located with track 3 and the short track 4 on one of the centre platforms, serves the Train des Vignes as R7 to Palézieux.

The other centre platform, with tracks 6 (standard gauge) and 7 (metre gauge), which is in the western part of a small curve, usually serves only the MVR traffic to Blonay and Les Pléiades.

Unusually, there is a turntable at the Eastern end of the station connecting the standard gauge tracks 4/5 and the metre gauge track 8, (of which the last few metres before the turntable are dual gauge. It served to transfer vehicles (mostly freight wagons) from the standard gauge to metre gauge.

Services

As of the December 2024 timetable change,^[update] the following services call at Vevey:^[5]

Swiss Federal Railways

• InterRegio: half-hourly service between Geneva Airport and Brig.
• VosAlpes Express: daily direct service between Le Châble VS and Fribourg/Freiburg on weekends between December and April.
• RegioExpress:
  • half-hourly service (hourly on weekends) between Annemasse and St-Maurice, and hourly service from St-Maurice to Martigny. On weekends, hourly service to Geneva Airport.
  • two round-trips in each direction between Lausanne and St-Maurice.

RER Vaud

• RER Vaud:
  • R3 / R4: half-hourly (hourly on weekends) service between Vallorbe and Bex; hourly service to Le Brassus; limited service to St-Maurice on weekdays.
  • R7: hourly service to Palézieux.

Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera

• Regio R35: service every 15 minutes or half-hourly service to Blonay and hourly service from Blonay to Les Pléiades.

Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway

• 'Riviera Belle Epoque' vintage steam train, the last Sunday morning of each month (May - October inclusive) to the railway museum, and a historical electric train to Blonay in the afternoon. ^[6]

Bus service

The VMCV serves the station (Vevey Gare) with various lines:

• Line 201 (a trolleybus line): Vevey Funi–Vevey Gare–La Tour-de-Peilz–Montreux–Chillon–Villeneuve–Rennaz
• Line 202: Vevey, Pra – Vevey, gare – Vevey, Charmontey
• Line 211: Vevey–Corsier–Corseaux
• Line 212: Vevey–Funiculaire–Corsier–Nant/Fenil Vieille Rte
• Line 213: Vevey – Jongny – Monts-de-Corsier – Châtel-Saint-Denis
• Line 215: Vevey, Marché – Vevey, gare – St-Légier
• Line 216: Vevey – Jongny – Attalens – Bossonnens
• Line 217: Vevey – Jongny – Attalens – Palézieux
• Line 218 : Vevey – Corseaux – Chexbres

Gallery

• 
  entrance hall, main entrance (2016)
• 
  entrance hall, underpass and stairs to platform with track #1 (2019)
• 
  station building (2016)
• 
  station building (1995), with a third track
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  track #7, metre gauge, MVR train to Blonay (2016)