Palézieux railway station

Palézieux
Location	1607 Palézieux-Gare Oron, Lavaux-Oron, Vaud Switzerland
Coordinates	46°32′33″N 06°50′14″E / 46.54250°N 6.83722°ECoordinates: 46°32′33″N 06°50′14″E / 46.54250°N 6.83722°E
Elevation	669 m (2,195 ft)
Operated by	SBB-CFF-FFS TPF
Line(s)	Olten—Lausanne Payerne—Palézieux Châtel-St-Denis—Palézieux
Distance	20.6 km from Lausanne
Platforms	3 (SBB-CFF-FFS)
History
Opened	1862 (SBB-CFF-FFS) 1903 (TPF)
Location
Palézieux Location within Switzerland

Palézieux railway station serves the village of Palézieux, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Railways at Palézieux
Legend to Bern and Olten to Moudon and Payerne Palézieux-Village(633 m) Palézieux(669 m) to Châtel-Saint-Denis and Bulle to Lausanne and Vevey

There are two railway stations in the area, at Palézieux-Village and Palézieux-Gare. Palézieux-Village station is on Swiss Federal Railways' Broye valley line (from Payerne) which then connects with their Olten-Lausanne mainline, at a junction just to the north of Palézieux-Gare. The station at Palézieux-Gare (which is called simply Palézieux) is 20.6 kilometres (12.8 mi) northeast of Lausanne station (by rail) and is also the terminus of the metre gauge Transports publics Fribourgeois (TPF) railway line to the Gruyère. It is possible to travel by train between the two stations in the Palézieux area.

The station has two parts, one for the national railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) and the other for a local metre gauge line; it is the only station on the Transports publics Fribourgeois network which is in the canton of Vaud.

There are three through-platforms on the standard gauge SBB-CFF-FFS mainline, with further platforms at the adjacent metre gauge railway terminus. The station is staffed by SBB-CFF-FFS (ticket sales, etc.) Monday to Friday. There are 179 car parking spaces.^[1]

Passenger services

SBB-CFF-FFS

IR

On the Olten-Lausanne mainline, InterRegio (IR) trains call at Palézieux, whilst InterCity (IC) trains do not (they pass through, not stopping between Lausanne and Fribourg). This provides the station with regular, direct passenger trains from this station to Geneva, Geneva Airport, Lausanne, Romont, Fribourg, Bern, and Luzern.^[2]

R

There are few trains that call at the stations between Romont and Palézieux (including Oron) because of the busy mainline nature of the railway. Monday-Friday there are some (Regio) passenger services provided in the early morning and in the evening.^[2]

RER/RE

Services S2, S4 and S21 are all part of the Réseau Express Vaudois network. All call at Puidoux-Chexbres between Palézieux and Lausanne, and S2 and S4 call at all minor stops south of Palézieux.

S 21 An hourly S-Bahn/RER type service runs between Lausanne and Payerne — service S21 — which calls at both Palézieux and Palézieux-Village stations. There are additional RegioExpress (RE) trains — two in the morning and two in the evening — on this route, to cater for peak-time demand in and out of Lausanne; these do not call at Palézieux-Village, but do call at Palézieux.^[3]

S 2S 4 Two further hourly S-Bahn/RER services (S2 and S4) run between Palézieux and Lausanne (and onwards to Vallorbe and Morges respectively), calling at many minor stations.^[4]

Transports publics Fribourgeois

There are also hourly, direct services provided by TPF (on their metre gauge line) to Châtel-Saint-Denis, Bulle, Gruyères and Montbovon.^[5]

References

1. SBB-CFF-FFS Palézieux station information (English)
2. SBB-CFF-FFS timetable (2011) p 328-37
3. SBB-CFF-FFS timetable (2011) p 338-9
4. SBB-CFF-FFS timetable (2011) p 326-7
5. SBB-CFF-FFS timetable (2011) p 349-51

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