Generoso Vetta railway station

Generoso Vetta is the upper terminal railway station of the Monte Generoso railway, a rack railway that connects Capolago with the summit of Monte Generoso in the Swiss canton of Ticino. At 1,592 metres above sea level, it is the highest railway station in Ticino. The station is situated a short walk from the mountain summit, and only a few metres from the international border with the Italian region of Lombardy.[1][2]

Generoso Vetta
The station with the new station building
LocationMonte Generoso
Castel San Pietro,[1] Ticino
Switzerland
Coordinates45.927767°N 9.018724°E / 45.927767; 9.018724
Elevation1,592 m (5,223 ft)[2]
Operated byMonte Generoso railway
Line(s)Monte Generoso railway
Location
Generoso Vetta
Location within Switzerland

The old station building, which had a buffet, a restaurant and a hotel, closed at the end of the 2013 season and was demolished. A new building, designed by Mario Botta and including buffet, restaurant and rooftop viewing gallery, opened on 8 April 2017. In the meantime, the railway remained closed to passengers although it was used for the transport of construction materials and workers. The new building is known as the Fiore di Pietra or stone flower.[3][4]

The station is served by the following passenger trains:[5]

Operator Train Type Route Typical Frequency Notes
Monte Generoso railway Capolago Lago - Capolago-Riva San Vitale - San Nicolao - Bellavista - Generoso Vetta 9 per day; hourly Operates in summer only; only 1 train per day between Capolago Lago and Capolago-Riva San Vitale

References
  1. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2013-02-15.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH. 2012. pp. 58–59. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  3. "In 2'500 sul Monte Generoso" [2,500 on Monte Generoso] (in Italian). ticinonews.ch. 2017-04-09. Archived from the original on 2017-06-01. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  4. Detterer, Gabriele (2017-04-12). "Fiore di Pietra – über dem Felsengrund ins Licht und zum Himmel" [Fiore di Pietra - above the rocky bottom in the light and the sky] (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Archived from the original on 2017-06-01. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
  5. "Capolago–Generoso" (PDF). Ufficio federale dei trasporti. Retrieved 2013-02-15.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.