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Vallorbe railway station

Railway station in Vallorbe, Switzerland

Summary

Railway station in Vallorbe, Switzerland

Field	Value
style	Swiss Federal Railways
name	Vallorbe
image	Vallorbe Bahnhof.JPG
alt	Four-story building
caption	The entrance to the station building.
address	Rue de la Gare 1
borough	Vallorbe
country	Switzerland
coordinates
elevation
owned	Swiss Federal Railways
line	{{Plainlist
distance	{{Plainlist
* {{convert	461.6	km	mi	abbr	on}} from Paris-Lyon
* {{convert	46.3	km	mi	abbr	on}} from
platforms	4
tracks	7
train_operators	{{Plainlist
connections	Travys buses
parking	Yes (176 spaces)
bicycle	Yes (4 spaces)
accessible	No
code	8501103 (VAL)
zone	110 (mobilis)
opened
electrified
closed
passengers	980 per weekday
pass_year	2023
pass_system	SBB
services	{{Adjacent stations	system1=RER Vaud
line1	R3	right1=Le Day
line2	R4	right2=Le Day
system11	TGV Lyria
line11	Paris–Lausanne	left11=Frasne	right11=Lausanne
system21	TER Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
line21	TER	type21=Pontarlier–Vallorbe	left21=Labergement-Sainte-Marie
line22	TER	type22=Pontarlier–Vallorbe	left22=Frasne
mapframe	yes
mapframe-custom
embedded	{{designation list	embed=yes
designation1	Swiss

Dijon–Vallorbe line
Simplon line
Vallorbe–Le Brassus line
461.6 km from Paris-Lyon
46.3 km from
SNCF
Swiss Federal Railways
TGV Lyria
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Vallorbe railway station () is a station at the border of Switzerland and France on the TGV Lyria line between Paris and Lausanne. It is located at the south-eastern entrance of the tunnel which tunnels one of Jura's mountain ranges, Le Mont d’Or. The station serves the municipality of Vallorbe, in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

Opened in 1915, It is also the terminal station of the hourly running, suburban train S2 to Lausanne and further to Palézieux. Finally, it is also a junction for the short line to the south-western end of the Vallée de Joux, also running on an hourly frequency and connects to the historic Chemin de fer Pont-Brassus between Le Pont and Le Brassus, which nowadays is owned by travys (Transports Vallée de Joux - Yverdon-les-Bains - Ste-Croix). The line between Vallorbe and Le Brassus is operated by CFF. The railway station (as well as the line between Vallorbe and Le Pont) is owned and operated by CFF. They are all part of the integrated mobilis (canton of Vaud) fare network.

It is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance (class A).

History

When the Simplon Tunnel project in southern Switzerland took shape, a controversy broke out regarding accessing rail lines from other parts of Switzerland. The proposed Faucille project via Geneva gave way to the Mont d'Or tunnel project via Vallorbe.

In 1870, the Swiss railway line from Daillens, the junction station on the Morges-Bussigny-Yverdon railway (opened in 1855), reached the frontier at Vallorbe. In France, the intended connecting line was completed as far as Pontarlier near Vallorbe in 1875. On 31 October 1886, the Jura–Simplon Railway (JS) opened the line between Vallorbe and Le Pont. Its continuation into the Vallée de Joux, the Chemin de fer Pont-Brassus, was built between 1886 (Le Pont) and 1899 (Le Brassus).

In 1915, nine years after the opening of the Simplon Tunnel, the direct Frasne–Lausanne line, including the Vallorbe railway station, was opened in conjunction with the piercing of the Mont d'Or. The doubling of the tracks were completed in 1908, and it was electrified in 1925. Since 1984, the station has also been served by TGV trains.

In its heyday, the station counted up to 250 employees, but that is no longer the case today. Plans affecting the station have been under discussion between the municipality, the canton of Vaud and CFF.

Location

The station is situated on the northwestern edge of the town. Paradoxically, southbound trains from France approach the station from a southwesterly direction, and northbound trains from Lausanne approach from the northeast.

Facilities

Vallorbe railway station has three platforms. As it is a French-Swiss border station with electrified lines, it forms a break of electrification systems. The overhead wires at the station can be switched from one system to the other. The station was equipped with extensive facilities for freight traffic and a locomotive depot.

Services

the following services stop at Vallorbe:

TGV Lyria: three trains per day between Paris-Lyon and .
TER Bourgogne-Franche-Comté: four rush-hour trains per day to .
RER Vaud: / : hourly (half-hourly on weekdays) service to ; limited service to .

References

(15 December 2024). "Plan des lignes". [[travys]].
(15 December 2024). "Plan de zones tarifaires". Mobilis Vaud.
(2023). "Passagierfrequenz (2023)". [[SBB CFF FFS]].
the station is the south-eastern terminus of the historic French [[Dijon–Vallorbe railway. Dijon–Vallorbe line]], and the north-western terminus of the historic Swiss [[Simplon railway
{{Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz
(1 November 2024). "Le Brassus/Vallorbe - Le Day - Lausanne - Aigle - St-Maurice (RER Vaud, lignes R3, R4)". öv-info.ch.
(15 December 2024). "Départ: Gare de Vallorbe". [[Swiss Federal Railways]].
(1 January 2018). "Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance". Federal Office for Cultural Protection (BABS).
(21 May 2011). "La gare de Vallorbe et ses fantômes". [[Le Temps]].
(1977). "En train à travers la Suisse". Ringier.

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