Renens station

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Renens
Renens station
Renens station
Data
Location in the network Separation station
Platform tracks 5
opening 1855
Architectural data
architect MM. Taillens & Dubois
location
City / municipality Renens
Canton Vaud
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 534049  /  154329 coordinates: 46 ° 32 '13 "  N , 6 ° 34' 44"  O ; CH1903:  534049  /  154329
Height ( SO ) 413  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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The Renens station ( French gare de Renens ) is the station of the municipality of Renens in the Swiss canton of Vaud .

location

The station is a separation station . About one kilometer west of the station, the Lausanne – Geneva railway line , which runs south-west, separates from the Jura foot line and the Simplon line , which run north. In a south-easterly direction, all railway lines lead towards Lausanne station , which is reached after 5 km. In between are the Renens and Sébeillon freight yards .

history

In 1855, the Compagnie de l'Ouest Suisse (OS) opened the Yverdon-les-Bains - Bussigny - Renens - Morges section of the Jura foot line . In 1856 traffic was started in an easterly direction to Lausanne . In 1858, the last section of the Lausanne – Geneva railway line was opened, which made it possible to travel to Geneva in the west. From 1861 onwards, Martigny could be reached from Lausanne on the Simplon route to the southeast . In 1870 the continuation of the Simplon line in a northerly direction to Vallorbe was opened.

In 1875, the Chemins de fer de la Suisse Occidentale (SO) decided to build a marshalling yard at the previously unimportant Renens passenger stop . It was put into operation in 1876 and expanded between 1890 and 1908, more than five times the size of the business compared to 1876. This greatly accelerated the development and industrialization of the community.

In 1877 a station building was built, which was replaced by the current building, which opened on April 21, 1908. In 1903 the successor to the SO, the Jura-Simplon-Bahn , was nationalized and incorporated into the Swiss Federal Railways . Renens was also connected to the Lausanne tram .

On June 12, 1940, shortly after Italy entered World War II , British planes that were supposed to bomb Italy and not neutral Switzerland accidentally dropped bombs on Renens and Geneva. Two people were killed in Renens. The tracks were also hit and damaged by several bombs.

On June 5, 1962, an employee of the freight yard was hit by a locomotive and killed.

Aerial view of the railway tracks, June 1964

With the opening of the large Lausanne marshalling yard in 1971, a few kilometers to the west, the Renens freight yard lost significant importance. Before that, it was an important rail hub for goods traffic in western Switzerland, which could handle up to 1,500 wagons per day.

The station has been the terminus of the Lausanne light rail system (line M1 of the Métro Lausanne ), which connects Renens via the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (ÉPFL) and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) with the Flon train station in the city center of Lausanne since 1991 .

2011 the station was for the consistent preference for non-motorized traffic , the price FLUX - golden transport hub awarded.

Around 2013, almost 25,000 people used the station every day.

In 2015, the expansion of the facilities as part of the Léman 2030 project began to include a. to build another platform, a pedestrian crossing and a flyover structure .

Reception building

Postcard of the reception building built in 1908

As a replacement for the first building from 1877, the Lausanne architects MM. Taillens & Dubois built a reception building with a total area of ​​583 m² and a facade length of 46 m. It opened on April 21, 1908. In the basement there was space for storage rooms, central heating and toilets; there was no basement under the side wings. A large hall measuring 8.20 m by 6.10 m, a ticket office, luggage room, waiting room and access to the platforms were built on the ground floor. In the east wing there was a waiting room for 3rd class and a room for check-in . In the west wing, the station board's office , secretariat and telegraph room were set up. On the upper floor there were two apartments with three rooms each and roof terraces on the side wings, which were rented to senior employees. In the attic there were five rooms for employees of the station, the archive and a room for the station clock, which dominates the forecourt. The reception building is a category B object in the list of cultural assets in Renens .

traffic

Regional trains of the Swiss Federal Railways and S-Bahn trains run by the RER Vaud on the Lausanne – Geneva line , as well as S-Bahn trains on the Jura foot line towards Yverdon-les-Bains and the Simplon line to Vallorbe . Since 1991 the Métro Lausanne has ended in Renens. At the station there are connections to the Lausanne trolleybus and to several bus lines of the Transports publics de la région lausannoise .

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Renens  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Routes and Renens VD station , www.schienenverkehr-schweiz.ch, accessed on February 29, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c David Subilia: Renens, une ville dans l'agglomération . University of Lausanne, 2008, p. 8.
  3. ↑ a b c Michel Depoisier: Renens (VD). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  4. ↑ a b s.n .: Gare de Renens: nouveau bâtiment aux voyageurs . In: Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande , Volume 34, Issue 11, 1908, doi: 10.5169 / seals-26855 .
  5. ↑ AI_REN_022 Renens: bombardment de la gare de triage par des aviateurs anglais le 12 juin 1940 , sbbarchiv.ch.
  6. ↑ Patrick Schlenker: Bombs in the Geneva & Lausanne area - June 11-12, 1940 , 2011.
  7. ↑ La leçon des bombes . In: Gazette de Lausanne , June 13, 1940, p. 1.
  8. ↑ Des avions étrangers ont lancé the bombes sur Genève, Renens et Daillens . In: Gazette de Lausanne , June 13, 1940, p. 2.
  9. ↑ Gare de Renens bombardée with numerous photos and scanned newspaper articles, garerenens.blogspot.com, February 12, 2016.
  10. ^ Fabienne Regard, Laurent Neury: Mémoire d'une Suisse en guerre: la vie malgré tout (1939-1945) . Cabedita, 2002, p. 24.
  11. ↑ Tué par une locomotive . In: Gazette de Lausanne , June 16, 1962, p. 3.
  12. ^ Federal Office of Transport, Rene Thiessing: Les chemins de fer suisses après un siècle , Volume 2, Delachaux & Niestlé, 1949, p. 160.
  13. ↑ Quand les CFF s'equipent pour l'EXPO et pour l'avenir . In: Journal de Genève , September 17, 1963, pp. 1-2.
  14. ↑ a b Swiss Federal Railways (ed.): Rénovation de la gare de Renens: un projet construit à plusieurs mains .
  15. ^ Renens: reconstruction of the station . SBB website, accessed on February 29, 2020.
  16. ^ Léman 2030 - Lausanne junction: Renens station. SBB AG, 2014, accessed on February 29, 2020 .
  17. ↑ B-Objects VD 2018 . Canton de Vaud Inventaire PBC, objets B, état: 1.1.2018 (pas de changements pour 2018) / Kanton Waadt KGS inventory, B objects, status: 1.1.2018 (no changes for 2018). In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, p. 13, accessed on December 31, 2017 (PDF; 455 kB, updated annually, no changes for 2018).