Castione-Arbedo railway station
Railway station in Switzerland
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Castione-Arbedo railway station is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Arbedo-Castione. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, between Biasca and Bellinzona.[1][4]
Arbedo-Castione
Switzerland
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Castione-Arbedo station in 1977, with BM track and train in the foreground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Via Stazione Arbedo-Castione Switzerland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°13′22″N 9°02′29″E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 240 m (790 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Swiss Federal Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Distance | 147.3 km (91.5 mi) from Immensee[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Connections | Autopostale bus services | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 200 and 210 (arcobaleno)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 1,000 per weekday[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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From 1907, Castione-Arbedo station was the principal interchange point between the Gotthard railway and the Bellinzona–Mesocco railway (BM), a metre gauge railway linking Bellinzona and various communities in the Val Mesolcina as far as Mesocco. The line closed to passenger traffic in 1972, and to freight traffic in 2003, but the section north as far as Cama, operated as the Ferrovia Mesolcinese tourist line until its final closure in 2013.[1][5]
Services
As of the December 2021 timetable change,[update] the following services stop at Castione-Arbedo:[6]
- InterRegio: hourly service between Locarno and Arth-Goldau; trains continue to Basel SBB or Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
- S10 / S50: half-hourly service to Mendrisio and hourly service to Chiasso, Como San Giovanni, or Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2. One train per day continues to Airolo.
- S20: half-hourly service to Locarno.
The station is also served by bus services operated by Autopostale, including an hourly service between Bellinzona and Airolo that parallels the railway line.[7][8]
