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 The frontage of Biasca railway station, with Autolinee Bleniesi and Autopostale buses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Via Bellinzona Biasca Switzerland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°21′7.150″N 8°58′26.994″E / 46.35198611°N 8.97416500°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 293 m (961 ft) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Swiss Federal Railways | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Gotthard line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 131.8 km (81.9 mi) from Immensee[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Fare zone | 220 (arcobaleno)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2018 | 1,900 per weekday[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biasca railway station (Italian: Stazione di Biasca) is a railway station in the Swiss canton of Ticino and municipality of Biasca. The station is on the original line of the Swiss Federal Railways Gotthard railway, at the foot of the southern ramp up to the Gotthard Tunnel.The line through the Gotthard Base Tunnel, now used by most trains on the Gotthard route, diverges from the existing line to the south of Biasca station (but before Osogna), passing on the surface to the west of the town before entering the tunnel proper at Bodio. Biasca station can therefore only be served by trains on the slower, but much more scenic, original route.[1][5]
Between 1906 and 1973, Biasca was the junction for the metre gauge Biasca–Acquarossa railway to Acquarossa in the Valle di Blenio.[1]
- ^ a b c Eisenbahnatlas Schweiz. Cologne: Schweers + Wall. 2012. p. 48. ISBN 978-3-89494-130-7.
- ^ "Liniennetz Media Leventina" (PDF). Autopostale. 13 December 2020. p. 15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno – Piano delle zone" (PDF) (in Italian). Comunità tariffale Arcobaleno. 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Passagierfrequenz". Swiss Federal Railways. September 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ map.geo.admin.ch (Map). Swiss Confederation. Retrieved 2012-09-23.