Lugano funicular railway - SBB station
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| Timetable field : | 2650 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 0.204 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 252 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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until 1954: Brake rack system Abt, two-lamellar |
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| Top speed: | 10.8 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The funicular Lugano-station SBB , Italian Funicolare Lugano Città-Stazione FFS , since 2016 also Sassellina , is a 1886 opened funicular in Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino , which serves the inner-city traffic. The railway transports over two million passengers annually, making it the second most frequented funicular in Switzerland after the Skymetro in Zurich, which is only accessible to passengers . The operator of the railway is the Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi (TPL).
history
In 1874, Lugano received a train station at the northern end of the railway line to Chiasso . The Gotthard Railway from Chiasso via Lugano to Immensee was completed in 1882. The Lugano train station stood high above the city and was poorly developed. At the initiative of Franz Josef Bucher and Josef Durrer - the same business partners who had already built the Bürgenstock Resort - construction of a funicular began. The concession was granted in 1884, construction began on April 25, 1886, and the acceptance runs began just five months later on September 22. The opening of operations was on November 8th of the same year, with which Ticino received its first funicular, the seventh in Switzerland. Previously, the Lausanne Flon – Ouchy , Lausanne Flon – Gare , the Giessbachbahn , the Gütschbahn , the Territet – Glion funicular and the Marzilibahn had opened.
- Lugano funicular railway 1886–1954
The track was built as a water ballast track , with the service brake acting on a cogwheel that ran in a two-lamellar rack according to the Abt system . The open cars held 40 people. They were replaced by closed ones in 1912. In 1954, operations were temporarily suspended and the lift was converted to an electric drive in the mountain station. The rack that was no longer needed was removed and larger cabins with a capacity of 75 people were procured. The railway went back into operation in 1955.
- Lugano funicular 1954–2014
Dodge (2004)
Mountain station (2012)
Valley station (2012)
From 2014 to 2016, the railway was stopped so that the entire system including the superstructure could be renewed by Garaventa . With the timetable change, at which the Gotthard Base Tunnel officially went into operation, operations were resumed and the replacement bus line operated during the construction period was discontinued.
- Lugano funicular from 2016
Mountain station in the train station (2016)
Stopover Lugano Cattedrale (2017)
route
The 204 m long route leads from Lugano train station to Piazza Cioccaro, 55 meters below. The station is located in the Sassello district, from which the name of the railway as Sasselina was derived.
The original route was 244 m long and the valley station was in the middle of the square. During the renovation in 1954, it was moved to the inner courtyard of the building at Via Cattedrale 40, thereby shortening the route to 220 m. The last reduction was made during the renovation from 2014 to 2016, when the mountain station was moved from platform 1 to the basement of the station.
At the Cathedral of San Lorenzo , a stop called Lugano Cattedrale was set up in 2016 . It can only be approached by car 2.
technology
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Today the usual design of the Abt switch, as it was used for the first time on the Lugano funicular.
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On the Lugano funicular railway, the usual design of the Abt switch for the meeting of two trains was used for the first time. Carl Roman Abt had already developed an Abt switch for the Giessbach Railway, but it differed in design, was more complicated and required more intensive maintenance.
The cars that will be used from 2016 can each hold 100 people and the journey takes one and a half minutes. 2240 passengers can be transported per hour. The drive and control of the system are designed as redundancy .
Web links
- La funicolare. Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi SA(Italian, operator's website).
- 6900.01 Lugano Piazza Cioccaro - Lugano Stazione FFS. In: standseilbahnen.ch. Markus Seitz, 2019.
- R. Abt: Cable car Lugano: System Abt . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 9 , no. 6 , 1887, p. 38 , doi : 10.5169 / SEALS-14347 .
- Funicular 6900.01 Lugano Piazza Cioccaro - Lugano station ascent Funicolare. In: standseilbahnen.ch. January 4, 2017(video).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Hans G. Wägli: Railway Profile Switzerland 1980 . General Secretariat SBB, p. 71.
- ↑ a b Funicolare Lugano-Stazione. In: lugano.ch. August 21, 2018 (information on wheelchair access and the Lugano Cattedrale stop).
- ^ Funicolare Lugano-Stazione FFS. In: ticino.ch. Retrieved December 24, 2019 (Italian).
- ↑ records. In: standseilbahnen.org. Cable cars Switzerland, 2019 .
- ↑ a b standseilbahn.ch
- ↑ TPL (Ed.): 10 curiosità dal 1886 . 2016 ( tplsa.ch [PDF]).
- ^ Walter Hefti: Rail cable cars all over the world: inclined cable levels, funiculars, cable cars . Birkhäuser, Basel 1975, ISBN 3-7643-0726-9 , p. 239 .
- ↑ a b Markus Seitz: The new Lugano funicular is in operation. In: standseilbahnen.ch.
Coordinates: 46 ° 0 '17.7 " N , 8 ° 56' 53.7" E ; CH1903: seven hundred and sixteen thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine / 95941