Airolo railway station

Airolo
Airolo
	Airolo station building and platforms
Location	Viale Stazione; Airolo; Switzerland
Coordinates	46°31′41″N 8°36′32″E
Elevation	1,142 m (3,747 ft) AMSL[1]
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Gotthard line
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways; Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia;
Connections	Autopostale bus services
Services
Location
	Airolo Location within Switzerland Airolo Airolo (Canton of Ticino)

Airolo railway station 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][2]

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

The following services stop at Airolo:[3]

InterRegio: on weekends and holidays, hourly service to Arth-Goldau, with trains continuing to Basel SBB or Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
RegioExpress: hourly service between Erstfeld and Bellinzona, with most trains continuing to Milano Centrale.
S20: single daily round-trip to Locarno.

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.[4]

Gallery

The yoghurt factory on the platform
Entrance to the Gotthard tunnel
Entrance of station building

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References

Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 48. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
"Erstfeld - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
"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

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Airolo railway station – SBB

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[saw-1] Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 48. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

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

[fpf631-3] "Erstfeld - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 20 June 2020.

[dstm-4] "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.