Vevey station was opened on 2 April 1861, when the then Jura–Simplon Railway (JS) opened the Lausanne–Villeneuve section of its standard gauge Simplon railway line to Sion. This line is now owned and operated by SBB-CFF-FFS.
In 1902, operations began on the present day Transports Montreux–Vevey–Riviera metre gauge line to Blonay and Les Pléiades. In 1904, the line to Châtel-Saint-Denis, also metre gauge, became available for traffic. In the same year, the standard gauge Chemin de fer Vevey–Chexbres (VCh) line was opened to link Vevey with Puidoux-Chexbres.
The metre gauge line to Chatel-Saint-Denis was closed in 1969 and was replaced by VMCV bus line 13.
Location
The station is about 300 metres (980ft) north of the lakeside marketplace. In the immediate vicinity can be found the Centre Saint-Antoine and Midi-Coindet shopping centres, which combine to form one of the largest shopping facilities in western Switzerland. Next to the station, in the old post office building, is the Coop Pronto office, amongst others.
Layout
As at the nearby Montreux railway station, access to the main platform is from the first floor of the station building, instead of the ground floor. The track system comprises one side and two centre platforms, along with some goods tracks.
Tracks 1 and 3 are reserved for SBB-CFF-FFS traffic on the Simplon railway line (there is no track 2).
Track 5, which is located with track 3 and the short track 4 on one of the centre platforms, serves the Train des Vignes as R7 to Palézieux.
The other centre platform, with tracks 6 (standard gauge) and 7 (metre gauge), which is in the western part of a small curve, usually serves only the MVR traffic to Blonay and Les Pléiades.
Unusually, there is a turntable at the Eastern end of the station connecting the standard gauge tracks 4/5 and the metre gauge track 8, (of which the last few metres before the turntable are dual gauge. It served to transfer vehicles (mostly freight wagons) from the standard gauge to metre gauge.
Services
As of the December 2024 timetable change,[update] the following services call at Vevey:[5]
half-hourly service (hourly on weekends) between Annemasse and St-Maurice, and hourly service from St-Maurice to Martigny. On weekends, hourly service to Geneva Airport.
two round-trips in each direction between Lausanne and St-Maurice.
'Riviera Belle Epoque' vintage steam train, the last Sunday morning of each month (May - October inclusive) to the railway museum, and a historical electric train to Blonay in the afternoon. [6]
Bus service
The VMCV serves the station (Vevey Gare) with various lines:
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