Locarno FART railway station

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Locarno FART
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A FART train at the station in 2011
General information
Location Muralto, Ticino
Switzerland
Coordinates 46°10′21.684″N8°48′7.740″E / 46.17269000°N 8.80215000°E / 46.17269000; 8.80215000 Coordinates: 46°10′21.684″N8°48′7.740″E / 46.17269000°N 8.80215000°E / 46.17269000; 8.80215000
Elevation205 m (673 ft)
Owned by Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino
Line(s) Domodossola–Locarno line
Platforms
Tracks2
Train operators Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino
Connections Locarno
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Other information
Fare zone300 (arcobaleno) [1]
History
Opened17 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

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.

Contents

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, the following services stop at Locarno FART: [4]

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The Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino is a limited company in the Swiss southern canton of Ticino, which provides the urban and suburban bus network in and around Locarno in Switzerland. It operates the cable cars between Verdasio and Rasa, Ticino, and between Intragna – Pila – Costa on behalf of the owning companies. Together with the Italian company Società Subalpina Imprese Ferroviarie (SSIF) they operate the railway through the Swiss Centovalli and the Italian Valle Vigezzo, which connects the Gotthard trans-Alpine rail route at Locarno railway station with the Simplon trans-Alpine route at Domodossola in Italy. There are 10 stations on the Swiss side of the frontier and 12 stations on the Italian side, the complete rail journey takes about 1 hour and 45 minutes.

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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.
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