Paradiso railway station (Italian: Stazione di Paradiso) is a railway station in the municipality of Paradiso in the Swiss canton of Ticino (named Lugano-Paradiso until December 2022). The station is on the Gotthard railway of the Swiss Federal Railways, between Lugano and Chiasso.[1][4] The station opened in 1945 and was renovated in 2018.[5][6]
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 The north side (Chiasso bound) of the station in 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Paradiso Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°59′20.4″N 8°56′46.7″E / 45.989000°N 8.946306°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 302 m (991 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Gotthard line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 182.8 km (113.6 mi) from Immensee[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 100 (arcobaleno)[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 980 per weekday[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Services
editAs of the December 2021 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Lugano-Paradiso:[7]
- RE80: half-hourly service between Locarno and Chiasso and hourly service to Milano Centrale.
- S10 / S50: half-hourly service between Biasca and Mendrisio and hourly service to Chiasso, Como San Giovanni, or Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2.
- S90: hourly service between Giubiasco and Mendrisio.
The Monte San Salvatore funicular crosses above Paradiso railway station on a bridge. Its lower terminal is some 350 metres (1,150 ft) walk to the north of the station.[8]
Urban bus route 1 of the Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi (TPL) serves a stop on the south side of the station, as do regional buses of the AutoPostale to Agnuzzo, Bissone, Carabietta and Morcote. TPL urban routes 1 and 2 also serve the Paradiso Gerreta stop some 500 metres (1,600 ft) to the north of the station at Paradiso Gerreta.[8]
Gallery
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The south side -
A TiLo FLIRT train in the station, and a car of the funicular passing overhead.
Notes
edit- ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
- ^ Nabholz (1946), p. 119.
- ^ "Paradiso, inaugurata la stazione". Radiotelevisione svizzera (in Italian). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
- ^ "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Schema di rete - Trasporti pubblici" [Network diagram - Public transport] (in Italian). Canton of Ticino. Archived from the original on 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
References
edit- Nabholz, Paul (1946). "Ausbau der Gotthardbahn im Sottoceneri auf Doppelspur". Schweizerische Bauzeitung (in German). 128 (9): 116–119. doi:10.5169/seals-83896.
External links
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Media related to Paradiso railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Lugano-Paradiso railway station – SBB
