Chemin de fer de l'État de Genève
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 Electric double-decker railcar of the SNCF in Genève-Eaux-Vives, 2009
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| Route number (SNCF) : | 894,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 25 kV 50 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 20 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Chemin de fer de l'Etat de Genève ( CFEG ) is the "Geneva State Railways" (resp. "Railway of the state of Geneva ") in Switzerland .
The CFEG is a pure railway infrastructure company; it owns the section of the railway line Genève - Annemasse , which was opened on June 1, 1888, on Swiss soil .
Since it is not a railway transport company, the name Genève – Annemasse (GA) is also in use for continuous rail operations . In official works such as state treaties, however, the official, official name Chemin de fer de l'État de Genève is always used.
Railway line
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The approximately six-kilometer standard-gauge single-track route on Swiss soil has so far had no connection to the rest of the Swiss standard-gauge network. Two kilometers of the route between Annemasse and the state border near Ambilly in France belong to the national railway infrastructure company SNCF Réseau . The border with Switzerland is also the property boundary to CFEG that the remaining four kilometers from the border with Moillesulaz (municipality Thônex ) and the terminal station Geneve- Eaux-Vives include the same Geneva city district.
Operation on the CFEG route - the Genève-Eaux-Vives-border (Moillesulaz) section - is carried out at the expense of the canton of Geneva by the French national railway company (SNCF) .
During the Second World War , after the occupation of France by the German Wehrmacht until 1942, the line was the only rail link between Switzerland and France that was not directly controlled by the Wehrmacht, as Annemasse was in the unoccupied part of France. Standard-gauge freight wagons were transported on roller stools and trestles on the meter-gauge tram between Eaux-Vives and the Swiss standard-gauge network.
Electric operation on the line only began on September 28, 1986. Due to the isolation from the Swiss rail network and operation by the SNCF, the line was electrified with the French 50 Hz system (25 kV).
Even before electrification, the Chêne-Bourg station in the municipality of the same name was closed in 1983 , the only stop in Switzerland between Moillesulaz and Eaux-Vives. At the end of 1991, freight traffic on the route was finally stopped.
On October 9, 2013, the Federal Council canceled the canton of Geneva’s railway infrastructure concession for the line, as the canton will not operate the new line.
Contracts and expansion plans
On June 14, 1881, Switzerland and France signed a treaty on the Geneva – Annemasse railway. There is also a 1912 contract between the canton of Geneva and the Swiss Confederation, according to which a connection from Cornavin to Eaux-Vives would be built. The canton had to bear a third of the construction costs.
The concession granted by the Canton of Geneva on June 22, 1877, which would actually have expired on June 25, 1957, was renewed on January 17, 1968. The new expiry date was set to December 31, 1987, with the clause of a conditional, early expiry of the license in the event of a takeover by SBB.
With the CEVA project , an acronym for the Cornavin – Eaux-Vives – Annemasse line in Geneva, the contract will be implemented around a hundred years after its conclusion. The CEVA project includes that the route of the current terminal station Eaux-Vives addition to La Praille is being expanded continuously. For this purpose, the CFEG route is to be lowered on Swiss soil, expanded with two lanes and covered. The system separation point between the Swiss 16.7 Hz network and the French 50 Hz network is to be relocated to the property border / national border on the continuous route. This creates a direct connection to the rest of the Swiss railway network, but from Annemasse it will only be possible to use multi-system vehicles for cross-border commuter traffic . Currently, passengers have to use the Cornavin bus or tram between Eaux-Vives and Geneva Central Station.
On November 25, 2011, the section from Eaux-Vives station to the former Chêne-Bourg station, which was reopened as a turning stop on December 11, 2011, was shut down and the tracks removed. On April 1, 2013, traffic between Annemasse and Chêne-Bourg was also suspended for at least five years. As a replacement there is a new fast bus line to the center of Geneva.
CEVA went into operation on December 15, 2019.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christiane Genequand: Chêne-Bourg. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ↑ Comment on the nomenclature "Stand Geneva": literally translated it would be "Railway of the State of Geneva", but since today's Swiss cantons are no longer independent states, but still have a certain degree of independence within federal Switzerland, the corresponding expression in the official one Federal official German status and not the state , if this is not specified in more detail (as in the case of the Council of State or similar), as is also most visible in the Council of States .
- ↑ Federal Council cancels the railway infrastructure concession of the Canton of Geneva ( Memento of the original dated May 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on news.admin.ch.
- ^ "Agreement of June 14, 1881 between Switzerland and France regarding the connection of the Geneva – Annemasse railway to the Savoyard railway network near Annemasse" (SR 0.742.140.334.93)
- ^ "Federal Act of July 10, 1912 on the Extension of the Federal Railways Network to Geneva Area" (SR 742.32)
- ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung No. 37 January 18, 1968
- ↑ Railway Amateur, Edition 2/2012, p. 69.
- ↑ Chêne-Bourg: Fermeture de la gare Nouvelle ligne de bus 61
