Giubiasco railway station

Giubiasco
Giubiasco
	A Flirt unit of TILO in the station in 2012
Location	Viale Stazione; Giubiasco; Switzerland
Coordinates	46°10′25.788″N 9°0′12.870″E
Elevation	230 m (750 ft) AMSL[1]
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Giubiasco–Locarno line; Gotthard line;
Distance	154.0 km (95.7 mi) from Immensee[1]
Platforms	4
Train operators	Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia
Connections	Autopostale bus services
Services
Location
	Giubiasco Location within Switzerland Giubiasco Giubiasco (Canton of Ticino)

Giubiasco railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Giubiasco. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, between Bellinzona and Lugano, and is the junction point with the Luino–Bellinzona railway that has a branch to Locarno.[1][2]

To the south of Giubiasco station, the Gotthard railway's main line commences its climb to the Monte Ceneri Tunnel under the Monte Ceneri Pass, leaving the valley of the Ticino river that it has followed since it left the Gotthard Tunnel, and heading for Lake Lugano. The steep line over Monte Ceneri is not suitable for high-speed rail or heavy freight trains, and a new rail tunnel, the Ceneri Base Tunnel, is currently under construction to avoid it.[2][3]

As a major junction station, Giubiasca has two island platforms serving four platform tracks, together with a number of freight tracks. However, all long-distance trains pass through the station without stopping, serving instead Bellinzona station, one stop to the north.

Services

The following services stop at Giubiasco:[4][5]

S10/S50: half-hourly service between Bellinzona and Mendrisio; hourly service from Mendrisio to Chiasso, Como San Giovanni, or Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2.
S20: half-hourly service between Castione-Arbedo and Locarno; every other train continues from Castione-Arbedo to Biasca and one daily round-trip continues to Airolo.

Gallery

The station looking south with Monte Ceneri in the background
The station and station buildings looking north

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References

Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
"Ceneri Base Tunnel: Blast-driving the main tunnel from Sigirino begins". AlpTransit Gotthard AG. 10 March 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
"Erstfeld - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
"Biasca - Bellinzona - Locarno" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

External links

Media related to Giubiasco train station at Wikimedia Commons
Giubiasco railway station – SBB

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[saw-1] Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

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

[3] "Ceneri Base Tunnel: Blast-driving the main tunnel from Sigirino begins". AlpTransit Gotthard AG. 10 March 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-11-12.

[fpf631-4] "Erstfeld - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

[fpf632-5] "Biasca - Bellinzona - Locarno" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2020.