The Léman Express - New Rail Network to Launch on 15th December
- Catherine
- Nov 29, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: Jan 31
Day out to Annecy or Evian-les-Bains, by train from Coppet! The New Léman Express is due to launch on the 15th December 2019. This is a massive new rail network (work began over 8 years ago!) and it will extend across Geneva and Vaud and into neighbouring France.
Léman Express trains are timed to coordinate with TGV Lyria trains, TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes trains and the main Swiss railway lines.This new initiative was *created to ease cross border travel.
The new service will offer lots of connections to Geneva Airport, with five trains per hour from Geneva's Cornavin train station (a seven-minute train ride from the airport).
The website is in English and the timetables are available to download.Check out the Coppet-Annecy or the Coppet-Evian-les-Bains timetables. No need to take the car!
See map and video below for more information.
25 stations on the network will be celebrating on the 14th and 15th December
*Only 16% of the 550,000 daily cross-border trips in 2015 were made by public transport due to the lack of an efficient service on both sides of the border. *source Wikipedia

There will be
230 km of track linking France and Switzerland
45 train stations across the region
6 trains lines to and from Coppet, Bellegarde, Evian-les-Bains, Annecy and St-Gervais-les-Bains-Le Fayet
40 trains running under the Léman Express brand
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