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Lausanne-Chauderon railway station

Lausanne-Chauderon railway station () is an underground railway station in the municipality of Lausanne, in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It is located on the Lausanne–Bercher line of the (LEB).

History

Chauderon station opened to service on 5 November 1873, as the Lausanne terminus of the first section of the LEB to Cheseaux station. The outer terminus was extended to Échallens station in 1874, and to Bercher station in 1889, but Chauderon remained the inner terminus until 2000.

As originally built, Chauderon was a surface station, with a wooden station building. In 1899, the Lausanne Tramway Company (TL) opened an electric tramway to Prilly that shared the LEB's tracks on the section between the Chauderon and the former Montétan stations, with the common section electrified at 550/600 V DC using overhead lines to power the TL trams. LEB's trains in the station were electrified in 1935.

TL's trams continued to use the station until 1964, when the tram service was discontinued. The surface station, and its wooden buiding, survived until 1995, when the station was moved underground and the original station razed. In 2000, a tunnelled extension to a new inner terminus at Flon station opened, permitting interchange with the Lausanne Métro. In 2022, the line in the opposite direction was placed into tunnel as far as Union-Prilly station.

Services

the following services stop at Lausanne-Chauderon:

  • Regio: service every fifteen minutes between and , with every other train continuing from Echallens to .

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