Sion train station

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Sion
customs
Reception building
Reception building
Data
Location in the network Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation SIO
IBNR 8501506
opening 1860 first train station
1873 today's train station
location
City / municipality Manners
Canton Valais
Country Switzerland
Coordinates 593 885  /  119 552 coordinates: 46 ° 13 '39 "  N , 7 ° 21' 34"  O ; CH1903:  593,885  /  119,552
Height ( SO ) 491  m
Railway lines
List of train stations in Switzerland
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The Sion train station ( French Gare de Sion ) is the train station of the Swiss city of Sion ( French Sion ) and is located on the Simplon line . The station is owned by SBB and is operated by SBB and its subsidiary Regionalps with long-distance and regional trains.

history

The age of the railroad began in Sion in May 1860, when the Ligne d'Italie railway line to Martigny was put into operation in a temporary station . On June 4 of the same year, the regional line to Le Bouveret / Saint-Gingolph (Suisse) , which still exists today, was started with four daily train pairs . Eight years later, Sion became a transit station when the previous route was extended as one of the stages of the Simplon line to Sierre . In 1873 the definitive station went into operation.

After the opening of the Simplon Tunnel in 1906, Sion became part of an international railway line from Paris via Lausanne and Brig to Milan and has remained a stop for international long-distance trains to this day. As a result of the acute shortage of coal caused by the First World War, the three-phase current operation Brig – Iselle was extended to Sion on July 31, 1919 through so-called emergency electrification . On December 12, 1923, electrical operation with single-phase alternating current 15,000 volts 16 ⅔ Hertz was started on the St-Maurice – Sion section and Sion became a system transfer station . This lasted until January 17, 1927, when three-phase AC operation Sitten-Brig was replaced by single-phase alternating current of 15,000 volts 16 ⅔ Hertz.

In 1959 the Swiss Post opened the neighboring post station.

Three-phase locomotive Fb 4/4 No. 366 in Sion.

location

The station is located south of the city center, but north of the city center, which is located on the Rhone and the 9 motorway . Numerous service providers have set up shop around the station, including Migros , which operates a shopping center here.

Plant and reception building

The reception building, completed in 1873, consists of a main wing and a side wing. The main wing houses the SBB facilities and some retail stores. Along with 22 other Swiss train stations, Sion train station is marketed under the slogan Mehr Bahnhof , making it one of the Deutsche Bahn's second-largest train stations. Directly attached to the station in the direction of Saint-Léonard is a freight station with a mail section, the entire system includes 14 tracks including through, butt and service tracks. Three of the 14 tracks are used by passenger traffic. They are located on a side and a central platform. The side platform track 1 is located at the reception building, while tracks 2 and 3 form the partially covered central platform. Passenger traffic is usually handled according to the following scheme:

  • Track 1: Trains ending and starting in Sion, namely the regional trains to Brig and Saint-Gingolph
  • Track 2: long-distance trains in the direction of Brig
  • Track 3: long-distance trains in the direction of Lausanne

traffic

The station is served by both long-distance and regional trains. While long-distance traffic is the responsibility of SBB, its joint venture with TMR , Regionalps, is responsible for regional traffic, which is mainly carried out with NPZ Domino .

Long-distance transport

Sion has always been a stop for international long-distance trains on the Simplon axis. Between 1969 and 1975 the TEE Lemano (Paris – Milan) stopped in the train station, then until 1984 the TEE Cisalpin, which ran from Geneva to Italy. Today only ETR 610 compositions serve as EuroCity between Geneva and Milan / Venice customs in international traffic. In addition, the SBB line 90 ( InterRegio Geneva Airport - Brig ) is on offer every half hour.

Regional traffic

Two regional transport lines leave Sion:

  • Regio Sion – Sierre – Visp – Brig
  • RegioSitten – Martigny – St Maurice– Monthey - Le Bouveret –Saint Gingolph

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Les débuts du Chemin de fer en Valais, Paul Perrin. Imprimerie Saint-Augustin, St-Maurice, 1961
  2. ↑ Plan of Sion station (PDF; 511 kB)