Mendrisio railway station (Italian: Stazione di Mendrisio) is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Mendrisio. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, between Lugano and Chiasso, and is also the junction for the Mendrisio–Varese line, formerly freight-only, but which was rebuilt as an international connection to Varese.[1][5][6]
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 The station building in 2012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Mendrisio Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 45°52′8.879″N 8°58′42.992″E / 45.86913306°N 8.97860889°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 328 m (1,076 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 198.7 km (123.5 mi) from Immensee[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Autopostale and local buses[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 150 (arcobaleno)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 6 December 1874 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | 6 February 1922 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 8,000 per weekday[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Services
editAs of the December 2021 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Mendrisio:[7][8]
- RE80: half-hourly service between Locarno and Chiasso and hourly service to Milano Centrale.
- S10 / S40: three trains per hour to Chiasso and half-hourly service to Como San Giovanni.
- S10 / S50: half-hourly service to Biasca.
- S40 / S50: half-hourly service to Varese and hourly service to Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2.
- S90: hourly service to Giubiasco.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Mendrisiotto" (PDF) (in Italian). PostBus Switzerland. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
- ^ "La FMV in breve" [The FMV in brief] (PDF) (in Italian). Canton of Ticino Dipartimento del Territorio. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
- ^ "Como - Chiasso - Mendrisio - Varese (S40)" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
- ^ "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
External links
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Media related to Mendrisio railway station at Wikimedia Commons- Mendrisio railway station – SBB
