Grandson railway station
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Grandson | ||||||||||||||
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 The station in 2018 | ||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Grandson Switzerland | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°48′23″N 6°38′31″E / 46.806274°N 6.641943°E | |||||||||||||
| Elevation | 435 m (1,427 ft) | |||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||
| Line | Jura Foot line | |||||||||||||
| Distance | 42.7 km (26.5 mi) from Lausanne[1] | |||||||||||||
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| Train operators | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||
| Connections | CarPostal SA buses[2] | |||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes (64 spaces) | |||||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | Yes (42 spaces) | |||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||
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| Station code | 8504201 (GRS) | |||||||||||||
| Fare zone | 123 (mobilis)[3] | |||||||||||||
| Passengers | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 1'000 per weekday[4] (SBB) | |||||||||||||
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Grandson railway station (French: Gare de Grandson) is a railway station in the municipality of Grandson, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Jura Foot line of Swiss Federal Railways.[1]
Grandson railway station was inaugurated in 1859 with the opening of the Yverdon-les-Bains - Vaumarcus section of the Jura Foot line.[5][6]
The electrification of the line, from Yverdon-les-Bains to Biel/Bienne, was commissioned on 23 December 1927.[5]
Since the timetable change on 13 December 2015, the station has become the terminus of the RER Vaud, replacing Yverdon-les-Bains railway station.[7][8][9] This extension required the construction of a platform along a former freight train overpass track, reused for stopping RER Vaud trains and reversing them at the platform. These are 55 centimetres high and 225 metres long.[10][11][12]
