Lausanne train station

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Lausanne
Lausanne train station
Lausanne train station
Data
Location in the network Separation station
abbreviation LS
IBNR 8501120
opening 1856
Architectural data
architect Monod & Laverrière,
Taillens & Dubois
location
City / municipality Lausanne
Canton Vaud
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 537 887  /  152 033 coordinates: 46 ° 31 '0 "  N , 6 ° 37' 45"  O ; CH1903:  537 887  /  152 033
Height ( SO ) 447  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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The Lausanne train station is a rail transportation hub in the Vaud capital Lausanne . It is owned by the Swiss Federal Railways and is served by SBB, Lyria and Métro Lausanne trains. The international night train from Zurich  to Barcelona , which was discontinued at the end of 2012 and was operated by Elipsos until then , also stopped in Lausanne.

location

The station is on the lines to Brig – Domodossola , Geneva , Biel – Olten and Bern . In the city itself it is south of the elevated city center (Flon) and north of Ouchy.

history

The station was opened on May 5, 1856 by the Compagnie de l'Ouest Suisse in the course of the construction of the line from Yverdon - Renens and a first station building was built. However, with the opening of the lines from Geneva (1858), Villeneuve (1861) and Friborg (1862), the station in the Vaudois capital developed into an important railway junction . As early as 1863, the buildings had to be adapted to the growing needs, this was done with modifications and extensions to the existing building. When the opening of the Simplon Tunnel was imminent in 1906 and it became clear that this opening would increase the importance of Lausanne as a railway junction, a new station building was planned, as the one from 1856 would no longer meet the requirements.

The Jura-Simplon-Bahn began planning a total renovation of the station as early as 1899, which, in addition to the extension of the track system, also included a renovation of the reception building. These expansion plans were approved by the Railway Department on March 13, 1900 with reservations. The subsequently modified project was presented again by the JS in February 1903. Shortly thereafter, the JS was integrated into the SBB, and this mainly criticized the planned renovation of the reception building. Instead of a renovation, a new building is preferable , mainly for operational reasons. The plans for the extension of the track system, however, were considered useful and implemented with some changes and additions. These were necessary in view of the opening of the Simplon Tunnel in 1906 because the existing facilities no longer met the needs.

After the track system had been rebuilt in 1908, a "competition to obtain facade designs for the service, reception and restoration building" was announced. The two offices Taillens / Dubois and Monod / Laverrière took part in this competition with two works. While the project came first under the auspices of Taillens and Dubois, the other design came in third. These four architects were assigned further processing by SBB District Directorate I. However, the third-placed project should not serve as the basis. The construction work could begin on January 1, 1911, whereby a temporary arrangement for passenger traffic had to be put into operation on January 4, 1911 in order to be able to demolish the old building. The building part of the reception building was put into operation on December 22, 1913, the restoration part on April 1, 1916. The wing construction for the railway service, however, could not be completed until autumn 1916.

Post tunnel, Lausanne train station, possibly around 1970

In the course of the new construction of the post station east of the reception building, two operating tunnels with a circular cross-section were drilled, which connected the old post office at the station in the west with the new building. With an inner diameter of 3.38 meters, it was intended for smaller company vehicles that could drive the northern tube to the west and the south-east in a one-way system. They thus ran parallel below the tracks and platforms vertically between the pedestrian underpasses and the tunnel of the Lausanne – Ouchy cogwheel railway , today's M2.

In 1984 the first TGV reached Lausanne. This made the station after Geneva, which was the first non- French city ​​to be connected to the high-speed train network in 1981 , the second destination in Switzerland. In 1995 the branch to Lausanne was extended seasonally to Brig . Stations such as Bern (1987), Zurich (1997) or Basel (2007) followed later.

From 1992 to 1996 the station was completely renovated, but without changing the components of the station. In 2008 the Métro Lausanne metro station went into operation, which among other things ensures operations to the Lausanne-Flon train station , the starting point of the Chemin de fer Lausanne-Echallens-Bercher , and also to the port in Ouchy .

architecture

Station building
Main entrance at night

Old train station (Lausanne I + II)

The building was built according to the plans of L'Ouest by the construction company La Harpe & Bertolini. The engineers responsible for building the station were Adrien Dériaz and Samuel Rochat. The first Lausanne train station was a single-story building with a hipped roof that was not articulated. This building was integrated into the new building during the renovation in 1863.

The first project, with extensions on both sides, found no support from the management. The Board of Directors of the Compagnie de L'Ouest Suisse decided on March 29, 1862 to undertake an extensive expansion project. It was decided to double the existing building and to add a station buffet to the west. The existing old building from 1856 was integrated into the new building in a successful architectural achievement. The interior spaces were adapted to the new requirements and the exterior facade was also redesigned. The main entrance received a raised transverse roof attachment, in which a clock was installed on the station square side. This main entrance was framed by two projecting risalits . However, one did not deviate from the single-storey version. Between 1876 and 1878 the buffet and the toilet facilities were enlarged. The facade was also redesigned. The two corner projections , which resembled the existing projections next to the main entrance, were only erected during this renovation .

Today's train station (Lausanne III)

The railway hall was erected by the company Wartmann & Vallet from Geneva in a four-month assembly, which was completed in March 1912. The construction is a joint effort by the companies Bosshard from Näffels, Buss AG from Basel and Schweizer from Albisrieden, Zurich. The ornamental details on the plinths and chapters can be attributed to the four architects of the reception building.

The massive projecting station hall and the three side pavilions are arranged asymmetrically . The building is also adorned with tall window openings. The ornamentation is kept in a discreet, refined Art Nouveau style. The station buffet with its wood paneling and painted panels from 1916 is almost completely preserved.

Track system

View of the tracks

The station has 9 passenger tracks, of which track 70 is a butt track that ends early in front of the station building and is reserved for trains to Payerne . Track 2 is a platform-free through track and is mainly used for freight trains and transfer journeys. The other nine through tracks extend over two side and three central platforms, which are covered with a steel and glass sloping roof.

To the west of the station there are extensive tracks and storage sheds including a turntable . Further sidings can be reached to the east. The Lausanne marshalling yard at Denges , 10 km to the west, is used to handle freight traffic .

traffic

Long-distance transport

TGV in Lausanne

Regional traffic

REV (S-Bahn)

  • S 1 Yverdon - Lausanne - Villeneuve
  • S 2 Vallorbe - Lausanne - Palézieux
  • S 3 Allaman - Lausanne - Villeneuve
  • S 4 Morges - Lausanne - Palézieux
  • S 11 Yverdon-les-Bains - Lausanne
  • S 21 Lausanne - Payerne

Lausanne metro

Discontinued connections

Accidents

On the night of June 28th to 29th, 1994, a 690-meter-long freight train derailed on track 3 of the station on its way to Basel. Three cistern wagons filled with thionyl chloride tipped over . By deploying the fire brigade, a major accident could be avoided. Rail traffic was suspended for three days; During the clean-up work, eleven people suffered minor injuries.

literature

Web links

Commons : Lausanne train station  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lausanne-Genève railway line from schienenverkehr-schweiz.ch
  2. ↑ Inventory of recent Swiss architecture
  3. ^ NN: Competition for facade designs for the new SBB station building in Lausanne . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 51 , no. 8 , 1908, pp. 97 ff . ( online ).
  4. ^ NN: Competition for facade designs for the new SBB station building in Lausanne . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 51 , no. 9 , 1908, pp. 111 f . ( online ).
  5. ↑ Official website of the city of Lausanne about the train station  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lausanne.ch  
  6. ↑ Bahnfilm.ch website about the TGV  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bahnfilm.ch  
  7. ↑ Ecoscan SA: Accident chimique de la gare de Lausanne ( Memento of 2 December 2003 at the Internet Archive )