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.
Locarno FART | |||||||||||||||
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 A FART train at the station in 2011 | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Muralto, Ticino Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°10′21.684″N 8°48′7.740″E / 46.17269000°N 8.80215000°E | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 205 m (673 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino | ||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Domodossola–Locarno line | ||||||||||||||
| Platforms | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Regional Bus and Rail Company of Ticino | ||||||||||||||
| Connections | Locarno | ||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 300 (arcobaleno)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
| Opened | 17 December 1990[2] | ||||||||||||||
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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 edit
As of the December 2020 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Locarno FART:[4]
- Panorama Express / Regio: hourly service to Domodossola and frequent service to Camedo.
References edit
- ^ "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ "About us". www.centovalli.ch. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 61. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Locarno - Domodossola (Centovalli)" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 18 February 2021. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
External links edit
Media related to Narrow gauge tracks of Locarno railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Locarno FART railway station – SBB
