Castione-Arbedo railway station

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Castione-Arbedo
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Castione-Arbedo station in 1977, with BM track and train in the foreground
General information
LocationVia Stazione
Arbedo-Castione
Switzerland
Coordinates 46°13′22.4″N9°2′29.4″E / 46.222889°N 9.041500°E / 46.222889; 9.041500 Coordinates: 46°13′22.4″N9°2′29.4″E / 46.222889°N 9.041500°E / 46.222889; 9.041500
Elevation240 m (790 ft)
Owned by Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)
Distance147.3 km (91.5 mi) from Immensee [1]
Train operators
Connections Autopostale bus services
Other information
Fare zone200 and 210 (arcobaleno) [2]
Passengers
20181,000 per weekday [3]
Services
Preceding station Sudostbahn icon.svg Südostbahn Following station
Biasca
towards Basel SBB
IR 26 Bellinzona
towards Locarno
Biasca
towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof
IR 46
Preceding station TILO Following station
Biasca
towards Airolo
S10 Bellinzona
towards Como San Giovanni
S50 Bellinzona
towards Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2
Terminus S20 Bellinzona
towards Locarno
Location
Castione-Arbedo railway station

Castione-Arbedo railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Arbedo-Castione. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, between Biasca and Bellinzona. [1] [4]

Contents

From 1907, Castione-Arbedo station was the principal interchange point between the Gotthard railway and the Bellinzona–Mesocco railway (BM), a metre gauge railway linking Bellinzona and various communities in the Val Mesolcina as far as Mesocco. The line closed to passenger traffic in 1972, and to freight traffic in 2003, but the section north as far as Cama, operated as the Ferrovia Mesolcinese tourist line until its final closure in 2013. [1] [5]

Services

As of the December 2021 timetable change, the following services stop at Castione-Arbedo: [6]

The station is also served by bus services operated by Autopostale, including an hourly service between Bellinzona and Airolo that parallels the railway line. [7] [8]

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  2. ↑ "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  3. ↑ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  4. ↑ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
  5. ↑ "La ferrovia Bellinzona Mesocco è al capolinea. Forse". RSI Rete Uno (in Italian). 29 March 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
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