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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 / 45.989000; 8.946306 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 302 m (991 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Gotthard line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 182.8 km (113.6 mi) from Immensee | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 100 (arcobaleno) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1945 (1945) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Passengers | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 980 per weekday | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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. The station opened in 1945 and was renovated in 2018.
Services
As of the December 2021 timetable change, the following services stop at Lugano-Paradiso:
- 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.
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.
Gallery
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The south side
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A TiLo FLIRT train in the station, and a car of the funicular passing overhead.
Notes
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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
- 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
Media related to Paradiso railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Lugano-Paradiso railway station – SBB
