Lugano-Paradiso railway station

Lugano-Paradiso
Lugano-Paradiso
	The north side (Chiasso bound) of the station in 2019
Location	Paradiso; Switzerland
Coordinates	45°59′20.256″N 8°56′46.604″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
Connections	Autopostale; Monte San Salvatore funicular; Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi;
History
Opened	1945
Services
Location
	Lugano-Paradiso Location within Switzerland Lugano-Paradiso Lugano-Paradiso (Canton of Ticino)

Lugano-Paradiso railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Paradiso in the Swiss canton of Ticino. The station is on the Gotthard railway of the Swiss Federal Railways, between Lugano and Chiasso.[1][2] The station opened in 1945 and was renovated in 2018.[3][4]

Services

The following services stop at Lugano-Paradiso:[5]

S10/S50: half-hourly service between Bellinzona and Mendrisio; hourly service from Mendrisio to Chiasso, Como San Giovanni, or Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2.

The Monte San Salvatore funicular crosses above Lugano-Paradiso railway station on a bridge. Its lower terminal is some 350 metres (1,150 ft) walk to the north of the station.[6]

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.[6]

Gallery

The south side
A TiLo FLIRT train in the station, and a car of the funicular passing overhead.

Notes

Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
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.
"Erstfeld - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 28 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 2012-09-19.

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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 Lugano-Paradiso railway station at Wikimedia Commons
Lugano-Paradiso railway station – SBB

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

[2] map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-07-17.

[FOOTNOTENabholz1946119-3] Nabholz (1946), p. 119.

[4] "Paradiso, inaugurata la stazione". Radiotelevisione svizzera (in Italian). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-28.

[fpf631-5] "Erstfeld - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

[dstm-6] "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.