Lugano-Paradiso railway station

Lugano-Paradiso railway station (Italian: Stazione di Lugano-Paradiso) is a railway station in the municipality of Paradiso in the Swiss canton of Ticino. 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]

Lugano-Paradiso
The north side (Chiasso bound) of the station in 2019
LocationParadiso
Switzerland
Coordinates45°59′20.256″N 8°56′46.604″E
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 Airolo
 RegioExpress
RE10
 Mendrisio
towards Milano Centrale
Lugano
towards Locarno
 RegioExpress
RE80
 Mendrisio
towards Chiasso
Lugano
towards Bellinzona
 S10 Melide
towards Como San Giovanni
S50 Melide
towards Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2
Location

Services

As of the December 2020 timetable change, the following services stop at Lugano-Paradiso:[7]

The Monte San Salvatore funicular crosses above Lugano-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
  • A TiLo FLIRT train in the station, and a car of the funicular passing overhead.

Notes
  1. 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. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
  8. "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.
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