Lugano-Paradiso railway station

Paradiso
The north side (Chiasso bound) of the station in 2019
General information
Location	Paradiso Switzerland
Coordinates	45°59′20″N8°56′47″E / 45.989°N 8.9463°E / 45.989; 8.9463
Elevation	302 m (991 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line	Gotthard line
Distance	182.8 km (113.6 mi) from Immensee [1]
Train operators	Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia
Connections	Autopostale Monte San Salvatore funicular Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi
Other information
Fare zone	100 (arcobaleno) [2]
History
Opened	1945 (1945)
Passengers
2018	980 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

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, ^[update] the following services stop at Lugano-Paradiso: ^[7]

• RE80 : half-hourly service between Locarno and Chiasso and hourly service to Milano Centrale.
• S10 / S50 : half-hourly service between Biasca and Mendrisio and hourly service to Chiasso, Como San Giovanni, or Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2.
• S90 : hourly service between Giubiasco and Mendrisio.

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]

Gallery

• 
  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. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
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.

External links

• Media related to Paradiso railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Lugano-Paradiso railway station – SBB