Airolo railway station explained

Style:Swiss Federal Railways
Airolo
Address:Viale Stazione
Borough:Airolo
Country:Switzerland
Owned:Swiss Federal Railways
Line:Gotthard line
Distance:86.2NaN from Immensee
Connections:Autopostale bus lines[1]
Zone:244 (arcobaleno)[2]
Passengers:370 per weekday[3]
Pass Year:2018
Mapframe:yes

Airolo railway station (Italian: Stazione di Airolo) is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Airolo. The station is on the original line of the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, at the southern entrance to the Gotthard Tunnel. Most trains on the Gotthard route now use the Gotthard Base Tunnel and do not pass through Airolo station.[4]

The station has three platform tracks, served by a side platform and an island platform, connected by a pedestrian subway. The station building, on the side platform, includes a kiosk and a ticket office, but is largely given over to a manufacturer of local yogurts. Just outside the station entrance is a memorial to the lives lost during the construction of the Gotthard Tunnel.

Services

the following services stop at Airolo:[5]

Bus services operated by Autopostale terminate in front of the station, and include an hourly service to Bellinzona that parallels the railway, together with a less frequent route across the Novena Pass to Oberwald.[6]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Liniennetz Alta Leventina . 8 . . 13 December 2020 . 3 January 2021 . 11 January 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210111161515/https://www.fahrplanfelder.ch/fileadmin/fap_pdf/Liniennetzpl%C3%A4ne/62.000.pdf . dead .
  2. Web site: Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone . it . Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno . 2020 . 3 January 2021 . 20 September 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200920210503/https://arcobaleno.ch/content/4-chi-siamo/2-le-zone-arcobaleno/2020-a4_combi.pdf . dead .
  3. Web site: Passagierfrequenz . September 2019 . 3 January 2021 . Swiss Federal Railways.
  4. Swiss Confederation . map.geo.admin.ch . 2012-09-23.
  5. Web site: Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano . Bundesamt für Verkehr . it . 16 December 2021 . 30 December 2021.
  6. Web site: Schema di rete - Trasporti pubblici . Italian . Network diagram - Public transport . Canton of Ticino . 2012-10-14 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121030124438/http://www4.ti.ch/dt/dstm/sm/temi/trasporti-pubblici/rete-dei-trasporti/schema-di-rete/ . 2012-10-30 .