Locarno FART railway station

For the adjacent standard gauge station, see Locarno railway station.

Locarno FART
A FART train at the station in 2011
General information
Location	Muralto, Ticino Switzerland
Coordinates	46°10′22″N8°48′08″E / 46.17269°N 8.80215°E / 46.17269; 8.80215
Elevation	205 m (673 ft)
Owned by	Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino
Line	Domodossola–Locarno line
Platforms	1 island platform 1 side platform
Tracks	2
Train operators	Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino
Connections	Locarno
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Fare zone	300 (arcobaleno) [1]
History
Opened	17 December 1990 (1990-12-17) [2]
Services
Preceding station FART Following station Locarno San Antonio towards Domodossola Panorama Express Terminus Locarno San Antonio towards Camedo Regio
Location

Locarno FART railway station (Italian : Stazione di Locarno FART) is a railway station that serves the city of Locarno, in the Swiss canton of Ticino. It is the Swiss terminus of the cross-border metre gauge railway line from Domodossola in Italy, which opened in 1923. Until 1990 these trains terminated in the forecourt of the mainline station, after passing through the streets of Locarno. This was replaced by a new underground station and section of line.

Since 1990, the station has been located underneath and physically connected to Locarno station, the city's primary railway station, although they do not share any tracks. The station is the eastern terminus of the 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge Domodossola–Locarno line of the Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino (Italian : Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticinesi, FART). ^[3]

Services

As of the December 2020 timetable change, ^[update] the following services stop at Locarno FART: ^[4]

• Panorama Express / Regio: hourly service to Domodossola and frequent service to Camedo.

References

1. "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
2. "About us". www.centovalli.ch. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
3. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 61. ISBN   978-3-89494-130-7.
4. "Locarno - Domodossola (Centovalli)" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 18 February 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2021.

External links

• Media related to Narrow gauge tracks of Locarno railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Locarno FART railway station – SBB