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7 unusual facts about Annemasse


CEVA rail

The project is to build the remaining section of an outer ring link connecting Geneva, (Cornavin station) with Annemasse running through Geneva's west, south and south eastern suburbs.

Upon completion a continuous railway route will run from Cornavin Station via La Praille, Bachet-de-Pesay, over the river Arve, in tunnel under the commune of Champel, and on past Eaux-Vives, underground to Annemasse, if a financing for the French part of the new infrastructure can be found.

# Between the border and Annemasse : the single-track SNCF line which has been in place since 1888 should be upgraded.

ELF 500 ROC

The engine was housed in a frame designed by Serge Rosset's small ROC firm, based at Annemasse in France.

Marianne Cohn

Cohn was arrested May 31, 1944, near Annemasse with a group of twenty-eight children, and incarcerated at the Hotel Pax by the Gestapo.

Terraillon

The company was founded in the French Alpine town of Annemasse in 1946 by Paul Terraillon, a watch and clock maker.

Wolfgang Windgassen

Born in Annemasse, France, he was the son (and pupil) of a well known German Heldentenor, Fritz Windgassen (who was also the teacher of Gottlob Frick).


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Agglomeration community of Annemasse – Les Voirons

Annemasse - Les Voirons is an intercommunal structure located in Haute-Savoie, France.

CEVA rail

It will link the CFF route Lausanne – Geneva Cornavin – Geneva Airport and the SNCF route Geneva Cornavin – Bellegarde-sur-Valserine – Lyon with lines in the Haute Savoie serving Thonon-les-Bains, Évian-les-Bains, the valley of the Arve to St Gervais and Chamonix and from Annemasse to Annecy.

CEVA is the name given to a project to connect the main Swiss railway line into Geneva from the rest of Switzerland to the at present isolated link out of Geneva Eaux Vives station to Annemasse Haute-Savoie, (France).


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