Locarno railway station

Locarno railway station (Italian: Stazione di Locarno) serves the city of Locarno, in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. However, the station is located within the adjacent municipality of Muralto, near the shore of Lake Maggiore. The border between the two municipalities runs along the Torrente Ramogna stream, a short distance to the south and west of the station.

Locarno
A TILO train arriving at the station in 2009
LocationMuralto
Switzerland
Coordinates46°10′20.748″N 8°48′4.892″E
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Distance21.05 km (13.08 mi) from Bellinzona
Platforms3
Tracks4
Train operators
ConnectionsAutopostale and FART buses
Other information
Fare zone30/300 (Arcobaleno)
Electrified15 May 1936 (1936-05-15)
Traffic
Passengers (2018)6,600 per working day[1]
Rank99 of 1735
Services
Preceding station TILO Following station
Tenero
towards Airolo
 S20 Terminus
Preceding station FART Following station
Locarno San Antonio
towards Domodossola
 Domodossola–Locarno line Terminus
Location
Locarno
Location within Switzerland
Locarno
Locarno (Canton of Ticino)

Since 1990, Locarno station has been divided into two distinct components, each served by a separately operated railway. At surface level, there is a standard gauge station, operated by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS). That station is the terminal of a branch line from Giubiasco on the Gotthard Railway. Underground, there is another terminal station, for the metre gauge Domodossola–Locarno railway, an international rail link operated in Switzerland by the Regional Bus and Rail Company of Canton Ticino (Italian: Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi, or FART).

Before the station was renovated into this form, the metre gauge trains operated from a separate platform on the station forecourt. As part of the reconstruction, the standard gauge station was augmented by a new finger platform between tracks two and three. Additionally, the two railway lines' goods yards were removed, and the underground station constructed in their place.

Services

The following services stop at Locarno:[2][3]

  • S20: half-hourly service to Castione-Arbedo; every other train continues from Castione-Arbedo to Biasca and one daily round-trip continues to Airolo.
  • FART:
    • Panorama Express: hourly service to Domodossola.
    • Regio: hourly service to Intragna; most trains continue to Camedo.
  • The station building
  • The above ground platforms
  • The entrance to the underground platforms
  • A FART train in the underground platforms

Notes
  1. "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
  2. "Biasca - Bellinzona - Locarno" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2020.
  3. "Locarno - Domodossola (Centovalli)" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 29 June 2020.

References
  • Moser, Beat; Pfeiffer, Peter (2004). SBB Gotthardbahn (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-121-8.
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