Vevey railway station

Vevey railway station (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.

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.

History
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 m 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 S31 to Puidoux-Chexbres.

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.

Services
the following services call at Vevey:

Swiss Federal Railways

 * InterRegio: half-hourly service between Geneva Airport and Brig.
 * RegioExpress:
 * half-hourly service (hourly on weekends) to Annemasse and hourly service to St-Maurice. On weekends, hourly service to Geneva Airport.
 * single daily round-trip between Renens VD and St-Maurice.

RER Vaud

 * RER Vaud:
 * / : half-hourly (hourly on weekends) service between Vallorbe and Aigle; hourly service to Le Brassus; hourly service to St-Maurice on weekdays.
 * : hourly service to Puidoux.

Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera

 * Regio: half-hourly service to Blonay, with every other train continuing to Les Pléiades.

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
 * Line 202: Vevey Gare–Crosets–Gilamont–Entre deux Villes–Vevey Gare
 * Line 211: Vevey–Corsier–Corseaux
 * Line 212: Vevey–Funiculaire–Corsier–Nant/Fenil Vieille Rte.
 * Line 213: Vevey–Châtel-Saint-Denis/Bossonnens