Genève-Champel railway station (French: Gare de Genève-Champel) is a railway station in the municipality of Geneva, in the Swiss canton of Geneva. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge CEVA orbital railway line of Swiss Federal Railways. The station opened in December 2019 as part of the launch of the new Léman Express network.[3] During the planning and development process the station was known as Champel-Hôpital.[4]
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![]() A Léman Express train at the station in 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Geneva Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 46°11′31.895″N 6°9′12.596″E / 46.19219306°N 6.15349889°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 389 m (1,276 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | CEVA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Train operators | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | tpg buses and trolleybuses[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 10 (unireso)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 15 December 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Services
editAs of the December 2023 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Genève-Champel:[5]
- RegioExpress: half-hourly service (hourly on weekends) between Annemasse and Vevey, and hourly service from Vevey to St-Maurice.
- 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.
References
edit- ^ "Plan tpg multimodal" (PDF) (in French). Geneva Public Transport. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ "Plan tarifaire" (in French). unireso. 2019. Archived from the original on 24 July 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ Lecomte, Christian (15 December 2019). "Le Léman Express, marche ou grève". Le Temps (in French). ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 68. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Annemasse - Genève - Coppet" (PDF) (in French). Swiss Federal Railways. 6 November 2023. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
External links
edit- Media related to Genève-Champel railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Genève-Champel railway station – SBB