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
LocationChêne-Bourg
Switzerland
Coordinates46°11′47.760″N 6°11′50.399″E
Elevation414 m (1,358 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
  • CEVA
  • Annemasse-Genève-Eaux-Vives line (until 2013)
Train operatorsSwiss Federal Railways
Connectionstpg buses[1]
Other information
Fare zone10 (unireso)[2]
History
Opened15 December 2019 (2019-12-15)
Services
Preceding station Léman Express Following station
Annemasse
towards Évian-les-Bains
 L1 Genève-Eaux-Vives
towards Coppet
Annemasse
towards Annecy
 L2
Annemasse
towards Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet
 L3
Annemasse
Terminus
 L4
Location
Chêne-Bourg
Location within Switzerland
Chêne-Bourg
Chêne-Bourg (Canton of Geneva)

History

The original station opened on 27 May 1888, on the Annemasse-Genève-Eaux-Vives line between Genève-Eaux-Vives and Annemasse.[3] 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.[4]

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

The following services stop at Chêne-Bourg:[5]

  • 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 Évian-les-Bains and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet.

Notes
  1. "Plan tpg multimodal" (PDF) (in French). Geneva Public Transport. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  2. "Plan tarifaire" (in French). unireso. 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
  3. Frommel & Arikok 2004, pp. 200–231.
  4. 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.
  5. "Annemasse - Genève - Coppet" (PDF) (in French). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
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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.
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