Payerne railway station

railway station in Switzerland
Place railway_station Q5846899
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Summary

Payerne railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.98% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (26 views/month, #182 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Payerne[3], Canton of Vaud[4]
  • Country: Switzerland[5]
  • Transport network: Bern S-Bahn[6], RER Fribourg[7], RER Vaud[8]
  • Instance of: architectural structure[9]
  • Connecting line: Palézieux–Lyss railway line[10], Fribourg–Yverdon railway line[11]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[12]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[13]
  • Adjacent station: Corcelles-Sud railway station[14], Cugy FR railway station[15], Corcelles-Nord railway station[16], Trey railway station[17], Granges-Marnand railway station[18]
  • Station code: PAY[19]
  • Commons category: Payerne railway station[20]
  • Inception: 1876[21]
  • Number of platform tracks: 5[22]
  • Connecting service: S52[23], S30[24], R9[25], R8[26]
  • Heritage designation: class B Swiss cultural property of regional significance[27]
  • Official name: Payerne[28]
  • Date of official opening: 1876[29]
  • Elevation above sea level: 451 m[30]
  • Number of platform faces: 3[31]
  • State of use: in use[32]
  • Street address: Rue de la Gare 14[33]

Why It Matters

Payerne railway station is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . s-bahn-bern.ch. s-bahn-bern.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . tpf.ch. tpf.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . sbb.ch. sbb.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  5. [9] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  6. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [3] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [4] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . tpf.ch. tpf.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . tpf.ch. tpf.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . s-bahn-bern.ch. s-bahn-bern.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . data.sbb.ch. Retrieved . data.sbb.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of Regional Significance, February 2017. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6h ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'ko']
    Official name → {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Payerne'}
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Connecting service → S52, S30, R9 +1
    Instance of → —
    Country → Switzerland
    Inception → +1876-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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