Castione-Arbedo railway station

Castione-Arbedo
Castione-Arbedo
	Castione-Arbedo station in 1977, with BM track and train in the foreground
Location	Via Stazione; Arbedo-Castione; Switzerland
Coordinates	46°13′22.519″N 9°2′29.263″E / 46.22292194°N 9.04146194°ECoordinates: 46°13′22.519″N 9°2′29.263″E / 46.22292194°N 9.04146194°E
Elevation	240 m (790 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Gotthard line; Bellinzona–Mesocco line (closed);
Distance	147.3 km (91.5 mi) from Immensee
Train operators	Südostbahn; Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia;
Connections	Autopostale bus services
Other information
Fare zone	200 and 210 (arcobaleno)
Passengers
2018	1,000 per weekday
Services
Location
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Castione-Arbedo railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Arbedo-Castione. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, between Biasca and Bellinzona.^[1]^[4]

From 1907, Castione-Arbedo station was the principal interchange point between the Gotthard railway and the Bellinzona–Mesocco railway (BM), a metre gauge railway linking Bellinzona and various communities in the Val Mesolcina as far as Mesocco. The line closed to passenger traffic in 1972, and to freight traffic in 2003, but the section north as far as Cama, operated as the Ferrovia Mesolcinese tourist line until its final closure in 2013.^[1]^[5]

Services[]

As of the December 2020 timetable change, the following services stop at Castione-Arbedo:^[6]

InterRegio: hourly service between Locarno and Arth-Goldau; trains continue to Basel SBB or Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
RegioExpress: hourly service to Milano Centrale.
S20: half-hourly service between Biasca and Locarno.

The station is also served by bus services operated by Autopostale, including an hourly service between Bellinzona and Airolo that parallels the railway line.^[7]^[8]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 48. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
^ "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 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.
^ "La ferrovia Bellinzona Mesocco è al capolinea. Forse". RSI Rete Uno (in Italian). 29 March 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
^ "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^ "Airolo - Bellinzona" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2020.
^ "Rete de linee Tre Valli" (PDF). PostBus Switzerland. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2020.

External links[]

Media related to Castione-Arbedo train station at Wikimedia Commons
Castione-Arbedo railway station – SBB

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[saw-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 48. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

[2] "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

[3] "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

[4] map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-23.

[5] "La ferrovia Bellinzona Mesocco è al capolinea. Forse". RSI Rete Uno (in Italian). 29 March 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

[fpf631-6] "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

[fpf62.191-7] "Airolo - Bellinzona" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 11 December 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2020.

[8] "Rete de linee Tre Valli" (PDF). PostBus Switzerland. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 27 June 2020.

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