Airolo railway station
Airolo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Viale Stazione Airolo Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 46°31′39.094″N 8°36′31.032″E / 46.52752611°N 8.60862000°ECoordinates: 46°31′39.094″N 8°36′31.032″E / 46.52752611°N 8.60862000°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 1,142 m (3,747 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Gotthard line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distance | 86.2 km (53.6 mi) from Immensee[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Connections | Autopostale bus lines[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fare zone | 244 (arcobaleno)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2018 | 370 per weekday[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Airolo railway station (Italian: Stazione di Airolo) is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Airolo. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, at the southern entrance to the Gotthard Tunnel.[1][5]
The station has three platform tracks, served by a side platform and an island platform, connected by a pedestrian subway. The station building, on the side platform, includes a kiosk and a ticket office, but is largely given over to a manufacturer of local yogurts. Just outside the station entrance is a memorial to the lives lost during the construction of the Gotthard Tunnel.
Services[]
As of the December 2020 timetable change, the following services stop at Airolo:[6]
- InterRegio: hourly service between Locarno and Arth-Goldau; trains continue to Basel SBB or Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
- RegioExpress: two trains per day to Chiasso; one train continues to Milano Centrale.
Bus services operated by Autopostale terminate in front of the station, and include an hourly service to Bellinzona that parallels the railway, together with a less frequent route across the Novena Pass to Oberwald.[7]
Gallery[]
The yoghurt factory on the platform
Entrance to the Gotthard tunnel
Entrance of station building
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 47. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Liniennetz Alta Leventina" (PDF). Autopostale. 13 December 2020. p. 8. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
- ^ "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Schema di rete - Trasporti pubblici" [Network diagram - Public transport] (in Italian). Canton of Ticino. Archived from the original on 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
External links[]
- Media related to Airolo railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Airolo railway station – SBB
- Railway stations in Ticino
- Swiss Federal Railways stations
- Airolo
- Swiss railway station stubs