Giubiasco – Locarno railway line
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| Timetable field : | 632 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 17.90 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 13 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Giubiasco – Locarno railway was built by the Gotthard Railway Company (GB) and opened on December 20, 1874 as part of the “Ticino Valley Railway”. With the nationalization of the Gotthard Railway, the route became the property of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) on May 1, 1909 .
history
After the Gotthard Railway Company was founded in December 1871, construction of the Gotthard railway lines began in 1872. In contrast to the complex main route in the Alpine region, construction progressed significantly faster in the valley floors in the canton of Ticino . In the Sopraceneri , the Gotthard Railway's concession included a branch line through the Magadino plain to Locarno , which was completed after a short construction period at the end of 1874.
On December 6, 1874, the Biasca – Bellinzona section was opened, a few days later, on December 20, the Bellinzona – Giubiasco – Cadenazzo – Locarno section followed in the Magadino plain. For more than seven years, this line remained an island operation with no connection to any other standard-gauge line. The connection to the valley railway in Sottoceneri (Lugano – Chiasso), via Monte Ceneri , was only opened on April 10, 1882, as part of the main line Immensee – Chiasso of the Gotthard Railway, on which full operation began on June 1, 1882.
The valley section Biasca – Bellinzona – Giubiasco has since been included in the GB main line, while the Giubiasco – Locarno section is regarded as a GB secondary line. The latter continues the kilometers from Immensee - the "kilometer zero" of the Gotthard Railway. A second cross-border route between the Gotthard and Italy was opened on December 4, 1882; it branches off the Giubiasco – Locarno line at Cadenazzo and leads from there to Luino, just under 30 kilometers away .
The Gotthard Railway Company was nationalized on May 1, 1909, which means that the entire GB route network also became the property of the Federal Railways. Under the SBB, the route was electrified with single-phase alternating current (15 kilovolts, 16⅔ Hertz); electrical operation began on May 15, 1936. The Giubiasco – Cadenazzo section, which is used by trains to Locarno as well as those to Luino, was expanded to double track, the second track was put into operation on May 17, 1953.
On March 23, 1980, the route between the Tenero-Gordola and Locarno stations was put into operation. The original route was relocated uphill, which lengthened the route by around 600 meters. With the construction of the new route for the laying, the two associated engineering structures, the Mappo Bridge and the Rocca-Bella-Tunnel, were built.
In 2009 the previous Riazzino-Cugnasco station was replaced by a Riazzino stop around 900 meters to the west.
business
The railway line to Locarno was traditionally also served by Gotthard express trains until the Gotthard Base Tunnel went into operation (December 2016). While the fast InterCity connections (IC / ICN) and the cross-border EuroCity trains (EC / CIS) - the so-called “high quality” passenger transport - are reserved for the main route to Lugano – Chiasso, InterRegio (IR) ran every hour to Locarno with a stopover Cadenazzo. These were the two two-hourly IR train lines Basel – Lucerne – Locarno and Zurich – Zug – Locarno, which overlap on the Gotthard Railway Section Arth-Goldau – Bellinzona – Locarno and run every hour. Today, two InterCity trains per day run from Basel via Lucerne and Gotthard Base Tunnel to Locarno. These trains only run in this direction and without stopping between Bellinzona and Locarno.
Regional traffic has been marketed as part of the Ticino S-Bahn since 2004 and is managed by the SBB subsidiary TILO . The half hourly S20 (Bellinzona – Locarno) serves the entire route with all regular stops. The cross-border S30 (Cadenazzo – Luino) runs the Giubiasco – Cadenazzo section with certain train extensions from / to Bellinzona .
literature
- Hans G. Wägli: Swiss Rail Network . AS Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-905111-21-7 .
- Hans G. Wägli: Railway Profile Switzerland 2005 . Diplory Verlag, Grafenried 2004.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://mct.sbb.ch/mct/it/konzern_dienstleistungen/konzern_medien/konzern_medienmitteilungen.htm?cmd=E2B9CC475D6FBB377666813BB2326CFF&book=1&page=9 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
