Biasca railway station explained

Style:Swiss Federal Railways
Biasca
Address:Via Bellinzona
Borough:Biasca
Country:Switzerland
Owned:Swiss Federal Railways
Line:Gotthard line
Distance:131.8NaN from Immensee
Connections:[1]
Zone:220 (arcobaleno)[2]
Passengers:1,900 per weekday[3]
Pass Year:2018
Mapframe:yes

Biasca railway station (Italian: Stazione di Biasca) is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Biasca. The station is on the original line of the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, at the foot of the southern ramp up to the Gotthard Tunnel.The line through the Gotthard Base Tunnel, now used by most trains on the Gotthard route, diverges from the existing line to the south of Biasca station (but before Osogna), passing on the surface to the west of the town before entering the tunnel proper at Bodio. Biasca station can therefore only be served by trains on the slower, but much more scenic, original route.[4]

Between 1906 and 1973, Biasca was the junction for the metre gauge Biasca–Acquarossa railway to Acquarossa in the Valle di Blenio.

Services

the following services stop at Biasca:[5]

The station is also served by bus services operated by Autopostale, including an hourly service between Bellinzona and Airolo that parallels the railway line, and Autolinee Bleniesi, who provide service to the Valle di Blenio.[6] [7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Liniennetz Media Leventina . 15 . . 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: Airolo - Bellinzona . Bundesamt für Verkehr . 11 December 2019 . 27 June 2020 . it.
  7. Web site: Rete de linee Tre Valli . . 15 December 2019 . 27 June 2020 . 29 June 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200629072230/https://www.postauto.ch/sites/default/files/tre_valli_bf.pdf . dead .