Morges railway station

Morges
Morges
	The station in 2016
General information
Location	Morges; Switzerland
Coordinates	46°30′40.0″N 6°29′38.4″E
Elevation	381 m (1,250 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Bière–Apples–Morges line; Lausanne–Geneva line;
Distance	12.5 km (7.8 mi) from Lausanne[1]
Platforms	2 island platforms; 1 side platform;
Tracks	5
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways; Transports de la région Morges-Bière-Cossonay;
Connections	MBC
Other information
Fare zone	30 (mobilis)[2]
Passengers
2018	20,300 per weekday[3] (SBB)
Services
Location

Morges railway station (French: Gare de Morges) is a railway station in the municipality of Morges, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lausanne–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways and the eastern terminus of the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge Bière–Apples–Morges line of Transports de la région Morges-Bière-Cossonay (MBC).[1]

Layout and connections

Morges has two island platforms and a side platform serving five passenger tracks.[4] The 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) gauge trains of the Transports de la région Morges-Bière-Cossonay (MBC) use track No. 5, on the north side of the station; the standard gauge trains of Swiss Federal Railways use the other four tracks.[5] MBC also operates bus services from the station.[6]

As of the December 2022 timetable change, the following services stop at Morges:[7][8]

InterCity: hourly service between Geneva Airport and Rorschach.
InterRegio: half-hourly service to Geneva Airport and hourly service to Brig or Lucerne.
RegioExpress: half-hourly service (hourly on weekends) between Annemasse and Vevey, and hourly service from Vevey to St-Maurice. On weekends, hourly service to Geneva Airport.
Regio: half-hourly service to Bière.
RER Vaud S5 / S6: half-hourly service between Allaman and Palézieux; weekday rush-hour service continues from Palézieux to Romont.

Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 70. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
"Plan Mobilis". Mobilis Vaud. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
"Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
"Stop: platform length (body)". data.sbb.ch. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
"Départ: Gare de Morges" (PDF) (in French). Swiss Federal Railways. 11 December 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
"Plan de réseau - MBC" (in French). Transports de la région Morges-Bière-Cossonay. 11 December 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
Swiss Federal Railways (13 October 2022). "Genève-Aéroport - Genève - Nyon - Morges - Lausanne (RER Vaud, lignes S5, S6)" (PDF) (in French). Retrieved 10 December 2022.
"Morges - Apples - Bière" (PDF) (in French). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 24 December 2020.

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