Lugano-Paradiso railway station

Paradiso
Paradiso
	The north side (Chiasso bound) of the station in 2019
General information
Location	Paradiso ; Switzerland
Coordinates	45°59′20.4″N8°56′46.7″E / 45.989000°N 8.946306°E
Elevation	302 m (991 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Gotthard line
Distance	182.8 km (113.6 mi) from Immensee
Train operators	Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia
Connections	Autopostale ; Monte San Salvatore funicular ; Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi ;
Other information
Fare zone	100 (arcobaleno)
History
Opened	1945
Passengers
2018	980 per weekday
Services
Location
Location

Last updated October 26, 2024

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 2 Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
↑ "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
↑ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
↑ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-07-17.
↑ Nabholz (1946), p. 119.
↑ "Paradiso, inaugurata la stazione". Radiotelevisione svizzera (in Italian). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
↑ "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
1 2 "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.

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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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[saw-1] 1 2 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.

[FOOTNOTENabholz1946119-5] Nabholz (1946), p. 119.

[6] "Paradiso, inaugurata la stazione". Radiotelevisione svizzera (in Italian). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-28.

[fpf631-7] "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.

[dstm-8] 1 2 "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.

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