Locarno railway station

For the adjacent metre gauge station, see Locarno FART railway station.

Locarno
The station building in 2011
General information
Location	Muralto Switzerland
Coordinates	46°10′20.748″N 8°48′4.892″E
Elevation	205 m (673 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Giubiasco–Locarno line
Distance	180.5 km (112.2 mi) from Immensee[1]
Platforms	3
Tracks	4
Train operators	Südostbahn Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia
Connections	Autopostale and FART buses[2]
Other information
Fare zone	30/300 (Arcobaleno)[3]
History
Electrified	15 May 1936 (1936-05-15)
Passengers
2018	6,600 per working day[4]
Services
Preceding station Südostbahn Following station Terminus IR 26 Tenero towards Basel SBB IR 46 Tenero towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Preceding station TILO Following station Terminus RE80 Minusio towards Milano Centrale S20 Minusio towards Castione-Arbedo Preceding station FART Following station Locarno San Antonio towards Domodossola Panorama Express transfer at Locarno FART Terminus Locarno San Antonio towards Camedo Regio transfer at Locarno FART
Location

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 Giubiasco on the Gotthard Railway. Underground, there is another terminal station, Locarno FART, 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.

Services

As of the December 2021 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Locarno:^[5]

• InterRegio: hourly service to Arth-Goldau; trains continue to Basel SBB or Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
• RE80: half-hourly service to Chiasso and hourly service to Milano Centrale.
• S20: half-hourly service to Castione-Arbedo.

Gallery

• 
  A TILO train arriving at the station in 2009
• 
  The above ground platforms
• 
  The entrance to the underground platforms
• 
  A FART train in the underground platforms

Notes

1. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 61. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
2. "Liniennetz Verzasca" (PDF) (in Italian). PostBus Switzerland. 13 December 2020. p. 20. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
3. "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
4. "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-06 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
5. "Biasca - Bellinzona - Locarno" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2022.

See also

• Rail transport in Switzerland

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 railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Locarno railway station – SBB