Lugano-Paradiso railway station

Paradiso
Enclosed elevator and walkway over double-track railway line
The north side (Chiasso bound) of the station in 2019
General information
LocationParadiso
Switzerland
Coordinates45°59′20.4″N 8°56′46.7″E / 45.989000°N 8.946306°E / 45.989000; 8.946306
Elevation302 m (991 ft)
Owned bySwiss Federal Railways
Line(s)Gotthard line
Distance182.8 km (113.6 mi) from Immensee[1]
Train operatorsTreni Regionali Ticino Lombardia
Connections
Other information
Fare zone100 (arcobaleno)[2]
History
Opened1945 (1945)
Passengers
2018980 per weekday[3]
Services
Preceding station TILO Following station
Lugano
towards Locarno
 RE80 Mendrisio
towards Milano Centrale
Lugano
towards Airolo
 S10 Melide
towards Como San Giovanni
S50 Melide
towards Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2
Lugano
towards Giubiasco
 S90 Melide
towards Mendrisio
Location
Map

Paradiso railway station (Italian: Stazione di Paradiso) is a railway station in the municipality of Paradiso in the Swiss canton of Ticino (named Lugano-Paradiso until December 2022). The station is on the Gotthard railway of the Swiss Federal Railways, between Lugano and Chiasso.[1][4] The station opened in 1945 and was renovated in 2018.[5][6]

Services

As of the December 2021 timetable change, the following services stop at Lugano-Paradiso:[7]

The Monte San Salvatore funicular crosses above Paradiso railway station on a bridge. Its lower terminal is some 350 metres (1,150 ft) walk to the north of the station.[8]

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.[8]

  • The south side
    The south side
  • A TiLo FLIRT train in the station, and a car of the funicular passing overhead.
    A TiLo FLIRT train in the station, and a car of the funicular passing overhead.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
  2. ^ "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  4. ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
  5. ^ Nabholz (1946), p. 119.
  6. ^ "Paradiso, inaugurata la stazione". Radiotelevisione svizzera (in Italian). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  7. ^ "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  8. ^ a b "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.