Giubiasco railway station

Giubiasco railway station (Italian: Stazione di Giubiasco) is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Bellinzona. The station is on the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, between Bellinzona and Lugano, and is a junction point with several other lines.^[1][4]

Giubiasco
A Flirt unit of TILO in the station in 2012
General information
Location	Viale Stazione Giubiasco Switzerland
Coordinates	46°10′25.7″N 9°0′13.0″E
Elevation	230 m (750 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Giubiasco–Locarno line Gotthard line
Distance	154.0 km (95.7 mi) from Immensee[1]
Platforms	4
Train operators	Südostbahn Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia
Connections	Autopostale bus services
Other information
Fare zone	200 (arcobaleno)[2]
Passengers
2018	8,100 per weekday[3]
Services
Preceding station Südostbahn Following station Bellinzona towards Basel SBB IR 26 Cadenazzo towards Locarno Bellinzona towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof IR 46 Preceding station TILO Following station Bellinzona towards Airolo S10 Lugano towards Como San Giovanni Bellinzona towards Castione-Arbedo S20 Sant'Antonino towards Locarno Bellinzona towards Airolo S50 Lugano towards Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2 Terminus S90 Rivera-Bironico towards Mendrisio
Location

To the south of Giubasco, the Gotthard Railway leaves the valley of the river Ticino that it has followed since it left the Gotthard Tunnel, and heads for Lake Lugano. Just to the south of Giubiasco station, the Gotthard railway's original line diverges to the south and commences its steep climb to the high-level Monte Ceneri Tunnel under the Monte Ceneri Pass. However most trains no longer take this route, but instead continue along the main line and take the Ceneri Base Tunnel (opened in December 2020) direct to Lugano. Just beyond the junction with the original line, a second triangular junction connects the new Gotthard main line with the Luino–Bellinzona railway, which in turn has a branch to Locarno.^[4][5][6]

As a major junction station, Giubiasco has two island platforms serving four platform tracks, together with a number of freight tracks. However, most long-distance passenger trains pass through the station without stopping, serving instead Bellinzona station, one stop to the north.

Services

As of the December 2021 timetable change,^[update] the following services stop at Giubiasco:^{[7][8][9][10]}

• InterRegio: hourly service between Locarno and Arth-Goldau; trains continue to Basel SBB or Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
• S10 / S50: half-hourly service between Biasca and Mendrisio and hourly service to Chiasso, Como San Giovanni, or Malpensa Aeroporto Terminal 2.
• S20: half-hourly service between Castione-Arbedo and Locarno.
• S90: half-hourly service to Lugano and hourly service to Mendrisio.

Gallery

• 
  The station looking south with Monte Ceneri in the background
• 
  The station and station buildings looking north

References

1. Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
2. "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
3. "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
4. map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-23.
5. "Ceneri Base Tunnel: Blast-driving the main tunnel from Sigirino begins". AlpTransit Gotthard AG. 10 March 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2011-11-12.
6. "Aperta ai treni la Galleria di base del Monte Ceneri". TVSvizzera (in Italian). 13 December 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
7. "Göschenen - Airolo - Bellinzona - Chiasso - Milano" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 16 November 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
8. "Biasca - Bellinzona - Locarno" (PDF) (in Italian). Bundesamt für Verkehr. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
9. "LPL_Tessin" (PDF) (in Italian). Swiss Federal Railways. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
10. "Partenza - Stazione di Giubiasco" [Departure - Giubiasco Station] (PDF) (in Italian). Swiss Federal Railways. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 May 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.

External links

• Media related to Giubiasco railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Giubiasco railway station – SBB