Chiasso railway station

• Gotthard Bahn
• Railway line Milano - Chiasso

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Chiasso Train Station is the station of Chiasso municipality in the Swiss canton of Ticino and is also a border station between Switzerland and Italy. His Italian counterpart is the Como San Giovanni station. He is in possession of the SBB and the Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and is served by trains of the SBB, TILO and Trenord. It is located only a few meters away from the border, and is the southernmost station in Switzerland.

History

The station was opened in 1874, as the Ticino valley railways between Biasca and Chiasso and Locarno went into operation. In September 1876, the station received cross-border traffic, as was the section of Chiasso -Como, the last section of the railway line Milano - Chiasso in operation. The opening of the Gotthard tunnel and the Gotthard Railway in 1882, the station was part of the continuous north-south connection between Germany, German Switzerland, the Ticino and Italy.

With the removal of the locomotive change of ETR 470 CIS since its introduction in 1999 held no trains Cisalpino in Chiasso, well -run but the covering material with conventional compounds. After the complete conversion of all cross-border trains on railcar maintenance in Chiasso was originally supposed to disappear entirely, but was retained after protests from politicians. Furthermore, it was also blocked by a Cisalpino inhabitants Chiassos the station. Even then dropped off 54 jobs at the station. Since then Chiasso serves as boarding for border controls in the train.

Back in 2004, has lost much of its corridors, as the fast trains to Basel / Zurich / Schaffhausen were converted to inter-regional and were led to Locarno train station. On the section Bellinzona to Chiasso, where they stopped at all stations between Lamone - Cadempino and Chiasso, they were replaced by the S10 S-Bahn Ticino. Today, only three of these inter-regional train pairs run to Chiasso. Since December 2010, the station is served by a daily train pair of Basel- Venice with the new ETR 610.

After the accession of Switzerland to the Schengen Agreement of 2008, the official border control was discontinued, the Italian Guarda di Finanza and the Swiss border guards kept their offices at the station. The border control is now performed on the trains between Como San Giovanni and Chiasso, when the tunnel Monte Olimpino cross 1.

Traffic

Long-distance traffic

• EC Zurich HB- Arth -Goldau -Bellinzona -Chiasso - Milano Centrale ( every two hours )
• EC Basel SBB -Lucerne- Arth -Goldau -Bellinzona -Chiasso - Milano Centrale Venezia Santa Lucia ( once daily)
• ICN / IR Basel SBB / Zurich HB -Lugano -Chiasso ( occasional trains)

Regional Transport