Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet station

Saint-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet is a railway station serving the town Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie department, southeastern France. It is the southeastern terminus of the railway from La Roche-sur-Foron, the southwestern terminus of the Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine railway and the western terminus of the Mont Blanc Tramway. It is expected to be the terminus for one of the lines of Léman Express, a suburban rail network for the Grand Genève, when it opens in 2019.

Entrance of the station

Overview

The station ticket office is open daily : 08h35-12h00 / 13h30-17h10. Outside, there are bus connections to Chamonix, les Contamines, St Gervais Bourg, and Passy.[1]

Routes serving the station are:

The station is the terminus of different gauge tracks. A standard gauge line with overhead power runs towards Annecy and Lyon. A narrower, third-rail track runs towards Chamonix and Martigny. There is also a rack railway line up the mountain named Mont Blanc Tramway.[2]

The station is the base for maintenance equipment including a snow plough for the Mont Blanc Express.

Services

The following train services serve the station as of 2017:[3]

Preceding station   SNCF   Following station
Sallanches-Combloux-Megève
TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 3Terminus
Sallanches-Combloux-Megève
toward Annemasse
TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 42
Sallanches-Combloux-Megève
toward Annecy
TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 43
TerminusTER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 44
Chedde
toward Vallorcine

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2012-01-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. http://leportailferroviaire.free.fr/trains/mblanc/mbesgb.htm
  3. TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Archived 2018-11-17 at the Wayback Machine, Fiches horaires, accessed 4 October 2017.


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