Vevey railway station


Vevey railway station 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 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 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 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.
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 and 7, 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, from the standard gauge to metre gauge.

Services

the following services call at Vevey:

Swiss Federal Railways

  • InterRegio: half-hourly service between and.VosAlpes Express: daily direct service between and on weekends between December and April.
  • RegioExpress:
  • * half-hourly service between and, and hourly service from St-Maurice to. On weekends, hourly service to Geneva Airport.
  • * two round-trips in each direction between and St-Maurice.

RER Vaud

  • RER Vaud:
  • * / : half-hourly service between and ; hourly service to ; limited service to St-Maurice on weekdays.
  • * : hourly service to.

Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera

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

[Blonay-Chamby Museum Railway]

  • 'Riviera Belle Epoque' vintage steam train, the last Sunday morning of each month to the railway museum, and a historical electric train to Blonay in the afternoon.

Bus service

The VMCV serves the station with various lines:
  • Line 201 : 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