Biasca train station
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 A 3/5 of the SBB Historic in Biasca station
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | BIA |
| IBNR | 8505209 |
| opening | 1874 |
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| City / municipality | Biasca |
| Canton | Ticino |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 718 177 / 134557 |
| Height ( SO ) | 293 m |
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The Biasca Station is the only station in the Swiss town of Biasca in the canton of Ticino . It is located on the Gotthard Railway of the SBB and was the starting point of the meter-gauge Biasca-Acquarossa Railway between 1911 and 1973 .
history
The age of rail traffic in Biasca began on December 6, 1874, when the Ticino valley railways from Biasca to Bellinzona began operating, which two weeks later were extended to include the Giubiasco-Locarno line . The first locomotive depot on the line was also built in Biasca because Bellinzona was not that far. On June 1, 1882, with the opening of the tunnels on the Gotthard and Monte Ceneri, the continuous route of the Gotthard Railway from Immensee to Chiasso became possible.
On July 6, 1911, the meterspurige opened branch line from Biasca to Acquarossa . It was built to open up the Blenio Valley after the federal government and the Kingdom of Italy abandoned the original plan for a north-south Alpine railway via the Lukmanier Pass in favor of the Gotthard Railway in the 1860s . The Biasca-Acquarossa-Bahn departed from the station square and also had its depot facilities in the neighborhood. On September 29, 1973, operations were abandoned and the facilities demolished after the depot facilities had already been sold in 1969. Since then, the route has been served by buses .
With the introduction of the Ticino S-Bahn , Biasca became a regional train station and the northern end of the TILO network , with the exception of some trains that were extended to Airolo during rush hour .
Track system and building
The two-winged reception building with annex on the north side is in the same style as other Gotthard stations, e.g. B. held in Arth-Goldau , Brunnen , Bellinzona or Lugano . The building contained two SBB ticket counters, former service apartments and the rooms of a train station buffet that had been vacant for a long time . Parking spaces, a freestanding kiosk and some partly historic operating and administration buildings complete the infrastructure. The renovation of the main building began in May 2019.
There are three tracks on a side and a central platform for passenger traffic. There are still extensive parking facilities that date from the time of the depot. The depot was the first on the Gotthard axis in 1874, but with the electrification of the route in favor of the main workshop in Bellinzona, only 19 kilometers away, it lost importance. Towards the end of the 20th century, the Biasca depot was initially a branch of the Bellinzona depot, then the locomotive depot and later the wagon workshop were closed. In the station area of Biasca, several Ae 6/6s were parked at times , waiting here for the junkyard or their rescue by historical railway associations.
traffic
Bus routes from PostBus Switzerland to the Riviera and Leventina and from Autolinee Bleniesi SA to the Blenio Valley connect the area around Biasca to the rail network. The stops are in front of the station building.
Regional transport TILO
TILO is the regional association for public transport in Ticino- Lombardy . The Biasca train station is now only directly connected to two lines:
- RE 10
Erstfeld – Göschenen – Airolo - (... Gotthard panorama route ...) - Biasca –Castione Arbedo – Bellinzona – Giubiasco – Lamone Cadempino – Lugano – Mendrisio – Chiasso – Como – Seregno – Monza – Milano - S 20
Airolo – Ambrí Piota – Faido – Lavorgo – Bodio– / Biasca –Castione Arbedo – Bellinzona – Giubiasco – San Antonino – Cadenazzo – Riazzino – Gordola – Tenero – Locarno
Web links
TILO regional trains Ticino Lombardy
Individual evidence
- ↑ Depots in transition: Biasca
- ↑ Marco Marcacci, Fabrizio Viscontini: La Valle di Blenio e la sua Ferrovia - L'ingresso nella modernità . 1st edition. Salvioni arti grafiche, Bellinzona 2011, ISBN 978-88-7967-283-2 , p. 208 .
- ↑ Depots in transition: Biasca