Airolo railway station

Airolo
Airolo
	Airolo station building and platforms
Location	Viale Stazione; Airolo; Switzerland
Coordinates	46°31′39.094″N 8°36′31.032″E
Elevation	1,142 m (3,747 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Gotthard line
Distance	86.2 km (53.6 mi) from Immensee[1]
Train operators	Südostbahn; Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia;
Connections	Autopostale bus lines[2]
Other information
Fare zone	244 (arcobaleno)[3]
Passengers
2018	370 per weekday[4]
Services
Location

Airolo railway station (Italian: Stazione di Airolo) is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Airolo. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, at the southern entrance to the Gotthard Tunnel.[1][5]

The station has three platform tracks, served by a side platform and an island platform, connected by a pedestrian subway. The station building, on the side platform, includes a kiosk and a ticket office, but is largely given over to a manufacturer of local yogurts. Just outside the station entrance is a memorial to the lives lost during the construction of the Gotthard Tunnel.

Services

As of the December 2020 timetable change, the following services stop at Airolo:[6]

InterRegio: hourly service between Locarno and Arth-Goldau; trains continue to Basel SBB or Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
RegioExpress: two trains per day to Chiasso; one train continues to Milano Centrale.

Bus services operated by Autopostale terminate in front of the station, and include an hourly service to Bellinzona that parallels the railway, together with a less frequent route across the Novena Pass to Oberwald.[7]

Gallery

The yoghurt factory on the platform
Entrance to the Gotthard tunnel
Entrance of station building

References

Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 47. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
"Liniennetz Alta Leventina" (PDF). Autopostale. 13 December 2020. p. 8. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
"Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
"Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
"Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
"Schema di rete - Trasporti pubblici" [Network diagram - Public transport] (in Italian). Canton of Ticino. Archived from the original on 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2012-10-14.

External links

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Airolo railway station – SBB

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[saw-1] Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 47. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.

[2] "Liniennetz Alta Leventina" (PDF). Autopostale. 13 December 2020. p. 8. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

[3] "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

[4] "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

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

[fpf631-6] "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

[dstm-7] "Schema di rete - Trasporti pubblici" [Network diagram - Public transport] (in Italian). Canton of Ticino. Archived from the original on 2012-10-30. Retrieved 2012-10-14.