Locarno railway station

Locarno
A TILO train arriving at Locarno station.
Location	Piazza Stazione, Muralto, Canton of Ticino, Switzerland
Coordinates	46°10′21″N 08°48′07″E / 46.17250°N 8.80194°ECoordinates: 46°10′21″N 08°48′07″E / 46.17250°N 8.80194°E
Elevation	205 m (673 ft)
Operated by	Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia (TILO) Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi (FART)
Line(s)	Gotthard railway (Locarno branch) Domodossola–Locarno railway
Distance	21.05 km (13.08 mi) from Bellinzona
Connections	FART bus services Postauto bus services
History
Opened	20 December 1874
Rebuilt	1990
Electrified	15 May 1936
Services
Preceding station   Swiss rail network   Following station Bellinzona toward Zürich Hbf SBB-CFF-FFS InterRegio Terminus Bellinzona toward Basel SBB SBB-CFF-FFS InterRegio Terminus Tenero toward Castione-Arbedo TILO S20 Terminus Terminus FART Domodossola–Locarno Ponte Brolla toward Domodossola
Location
Locarno Locarno (Switzerland)

Locarno railway station (Italian: Stazione di Locarno) serves the city of Locarno, in the Canton of Ticino, Switzerland. However, the station is located within the adjacent municipality of Muralto, near the shore of Lake Maggiore. The border between the two municipalities runs along the Torrente Ramogna stream, a short distance to the south and west of the station.

Since 1990, Locarno station has been divided into two distinct components, each served by a separately operated railway. At surface level, there is a standard gauge station, operated by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS). That station is the terminal of a branch line from Bellinzona and Cadenazzo on the Gotthardbahn. Underground, there is another terminal station, for the metre gauge Domodossola–Locarno railway, an international rail link operated in Switzerland by the Regional Bus and Rail Company of Canton Ticino (Italian: Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi, or FART).

Before the station was renovated into this form, the metre gauge trains operated from a separate platform on the station forecourt. As part of the reconstruction, the standard gauge station was augmented by a new finger platform between tracks two and three. Additionally, the two railway lines' goods yards were removed, and the underground station constructed in their place.

The station building  The above ground platforms  The entrance to the underground platforms  A FART train in the underground platforms

References

• Moser, Beat; Pfeiffer, Peter (2004). SBB Gotthardbahn (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany: Eisenbahn-Journal (Verlagsgruppe Bahn GmbH). ISBN 3-89610-121-8.

External links

• Media related to Locarno train station at Wikimedia Commons