Lugano-Paradiso railway station
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]
Lugano-Paradiso | |||||||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1945 | ||||||||||||||
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Lugano-Paradiso Location within Switzerland Lugano-Paradiso Lugano-Paradiso (Canton of Ticino) |
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.
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