Chêne-Bourg railway station

Chêne-Bourg railway station (French: Gare de Chêne-Bourg) is a railway station in the municipality of Chêne-Bourg, in the Swiss canton of Geneva. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge CEVA orbital railway line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Chêne-Bourg
The station platforms in 2020
General information
Location	Chêne-Bourg Switzerland
Coordinates	46°11′47.760″N 6°11′50.399″E
Elevation	414 m (1,358 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	CEVA Annemasse-Genève-Eaux-Vives line [fr] (until 2013)
Distance	73.1 km (45.4 mi) from Lausanne
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	tpg : gare-Place, gare-Tour, Place Favre[1]
Tram	Tram lines and
Bus	bus lines
Construction
Parking	499
Bicycle facilities	92
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	8516274 (CHEB)
Fare zone	10 (unireso)[2]
History
Opened	15 December 2019 (2019-12-15)
Passengers
2023	5'700 per weekday[3] (SBB)
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Genève-Eaux-Vives towards St-Maurice RE33 Annemasse One-way operation Preceding station Léman Express Following station Genève-Eaux-Vives towards Coppet L1 Annemasse towards Évian-les-Bains L2 Annemasse towards Annecy L3 Annemasse towards Saint-Gervais L4 Annemasse Terminus
Location

History

The original station opened on 27 May 1888, on the Annemasse-Genève-Eaux-Vives line [fr] between Genève-Eaux-Vives and Annemasse.^[4] The station closed in 1987 in favor of the newly opened station at Ambilly; this was done so that customs control could be centralized at Genève-Eaux-Vives. The station building was preserved, and re-opened from 2011–2013 to handle TER services after construction on the new CEVA orbital railway line led to the closure of Genève-Eaux-Vives.^[5]

As part of the CEVA project, a new underground station was built at Chêne-Bourg; the original station building was moved about 40 metres (130 ft) but remains standing. The new station opened on 15 December 2019.

Services

As of the December 2023 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Chêne-Bourg:^[6][7]

• RegioExpress: half-hourly service (hourly on weekends) to Vevey and hourly service to St-Maurice (only on weekdays). Eastbound trains do not stop.
• Léman Express L1 / L2 / L3 / L4: service every fifteen minutes between Coppet and Annemasse; from Annemasse every hour to Annecy, half-hourly or hourly service or service every two hours to Évian-les-Bains and every two hours to Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet.

Notes

1. "Plan de réseau TG" (PDF) (in French). Geneva Public Transport. 10 December 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
2. "Plan tarifaire" (in French). unireso. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
3. "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". Chêne-Bourg, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2024 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
4. Frommel & Arikok 2004, pp. 200–231.
5. Dethurens, Chloé (25 October 2011). "La gare de Chêne-Bourg va rouvrir". Tribune de Genève (in French). Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
6. "Annemasse - Genève - Coppet (LEMAN EXPRESS, Lignes RL1, RL2, RL3, RL4)" (PDF) (in French). 12 December 2023. Retrieved 20 October 2024.
7. "Départ: Gare de Chêne-Bourg" (PDF) (in French). Swiss Federal Railways. 17 June 2024. Retrieved 20 October 2024.

References

• Frommel, Bénédict; Arikok, Enis (2004). Les chemins de fer du Canton de Genève: étude historique, 1840-1960 (in French). Geneva: Service des monuments et sites. OCLC 604066418.

External links

• Media related to Chêne-Bourg railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Chêne-Bourg railway station – SBB