Vernier railway station
Vernier railway station, formerly known as Cointrin, is a railway station in the municipality of Vernier, in the Swiss canton of Geneva. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Lyon–Geneva line of Swiss Federal Railways.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Cointrin” and “Cointrin railway station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Deutsche Schule Genf and Geneva Airport railway station.
Deutsche Schule Genf
School
Deutsche Schule Genf is a German international school in Vernier, Switzerland, in the Geneva metropolitan area. It serves levels Kindergarten through Sekundarstufe II. Deutsche Schule Genf is situated 550 metres southwest of Vernier railway station.
Geneva Airport railway station
Railway station
Photo: Creative Commons, CC BY 3.0.
Geneva Airport railway station is a train station located underground next to the terminal building of Geneva International Airport, in Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, Switzerland. Geneva Airport railway station is situated 1½ km northeast of Vernier railway station.
Church of Saints Jacob and Philip
Church
Photo: RomanDeckert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church of Saints Jacob and Philip is situated 730 metres southwest of Vernier railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Le Lignon and Meyrin.
Le Lignon
Neighborhood
Photo: Port(u*o)s, CC BY 3.0.
Le Lignon is an urban development in the town of Vernier, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was designed by architect Georges Addor between 1964 and 1966 and consists of three large buildings and is one of the largest apartment complexes in the world, containing 2,780 units.
Meyrin
Town
Photo: Karoly Lorentey, CC BY 2.0.
Geneva, Switzerland's second-most populous city and the largest French-speaking city in Switzerland, is one of the world's major centres of international diplomacy, having served as the site of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross since its foundation in 1863.
Le Grand-Saconnex
Town
Photo: LaMèreVeille, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Le Grand-Saconnex is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. Several international organizations and permanent missions to the United Nations are located in Grand Saconnex. Le Grand-Saconnex is situated 3 km northeast of Vernier railway station.
Vernier railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Vernier, Geneva, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.22045° or 46° 13′ 14″ northLongitude
6.09471° or 6° 5′ 41″ eastElevation
427 metres (1,401 feet)Operator
SBBAbbreviation
“COI”UIC ID
8501007Open location code
8FR863CV+5VOpenStreetMap ID
node 2754246079OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to Venetian—“Vernier railway station” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Vernier”
- French: “gare de Vernier”
- French: “Gare de Vernier”
- French: “Vernier”
- German: “Bahnhof Vernier”
- Korean: “베르니에역”
- Russian: “Вернье”
- Spanish: “Estación de Vernier”
- Venetian: “stasion de Vernier”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vernier railway station”. Photo: Remontees, CC BY-SA 4.0.