Genève-Cornavin railway station

Genève-Cornavin
The entrance to the station building
Location
Address	Place de Cornavin 1201 Genève
Municipality	Geneva
Canton	Geneva
Country	Switzerland
Coordinates	46°12′37″N 6°08′33″E / 46.21028°N 6.1425°E / 46.21028; 6.1425Coordinates: 46°12′37″N 6°08′33″E / 46.21028°N 6.1425°E / 46.21028; 6.1425
Line(s)	Olten - Genève-Aéroport Genève-Cornavin - Lyon (F)
Elevation	385 m
Other information
Opened	1858 (1858)
Architect	Julien Flegenheimer
Rebuilt	1931 (1931)
Platforms	8
Owner	SBB-CFF-FFS
Line ops	SBB-CFF-FFS SNCF
Connections
	Transports Publics Genevois Lines 13, 14, 15, 16 & 18
	Transports Publics Genevois Lines 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 19, 27, 29, F, V, Z
Location map
Genève-Cornavin Genève-Cornavin (Switzerland)

Geneva Cornavin station from Platform 7

Genève-Cornavin (also known as Gare de Cornavin and signed simply as Genève) is Geneva's main railway station, located in the centre of the city. The immediate area surrounding it is known as Cornavin; both names can be used interchangeably to refer to each other.

The station has over 230 train arrivals and departures every day, 4 ticket counters and 6 ticket machines, Please note that the number of ticket counters and Ticket machines has changed after the renovations in 2011, as well as a customs office for international trains to France and beyond. There are only 8 platforms which makes it relatively small compared, for example, to Zurich's 21 platforms.

Platforms 7 and 8 have French and Swiss border controls. Long distance trains and TERs leave for France without making any stops in Switzerland.

The station connects to one Swiss main line, known as the Jura foot railway line (Olten - Genève-Aéroport), which links the city with the rest of Switzerland. Many long distance trains from this line continue to and terminate at Geneva Airport railway station, 6 minutes ride away. There is also significant traffic to France, along the Lyon-Geneva line, which for the first few km runs as a single track line alongside the double track line to the airport. Traffic to France includes long distance TGVs to Paris and Southern France, regional trains to Lyon via Bellegarde. Cornavin is also the hub of a growing RER network, with two routes in service, Bellegarde/La Plaine to Cornavin and Coppet to Lancy - Pont-Rouge. The CEVA plans to connect the spur leading to Lancy - Pont-Rouge to the Eaux-Vives station and thus create a line from Cornavin to Annemasse.

Facilities

Amongst the facilities of the station are a police station, cash machines, cafés, bars, food stands, a bakery, a supermarket (Aperto), newsagents, a media shop (CityDisc), a cybercafe, kiosks, underground car park, an underground shopping arcade, toilets and showers, and luggage lockers.

Nearby area features

Located directly outside the station are bus and tram stops for Transports Publics Genevois services to all over Geneva city, its canton and nearby French locales, a taxi rank, banks, cash machines, post offices, hotels, cinemas, jewellers, book shops, money exchange services, restaurants, bars, and fast food restaurants.

In Popular Culture

The station entrance and a platform was seen in the Tintin Adventure The Calculus Affair.

Services

Preceding station		SNCF		Following station
Bellegarde toward Paris-Lyon		TGV		Terminus
Lyon-Part-Dieu toward Hendaye		Lunéa		Terminus
Terminus		TER Rhône-Alpes 2		Bellegarde toward Valence-Ville
Bellegarde toward Lyon-Part-Dieu		TER Rhône-Alpes 3		Terminus
Cointrin toward Bellegarde		TER Rhône-Alpes 34		Terminus
Terminus		TER Rhône-Alpes 51		Bellegarde toward Chambéry

See also

	Trains portal
	Architecture portal
	Geneva portal

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External links

Media related to Gare de Genève-Cornavin at Wikimedia Commons

• Swiss Railway — trains to and from Cornavin
• Les principaux éléments historiques en relation avec CEVA (French)