Locarno railway station

railway station in Switzerland
TrainStation dead_end_railway_station Q686540
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Summary

Locarno railway station is a dead-end railway station[1]. It draws 219 Wikipedia views per month (dead end railway station category, ranking #43 of 81).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Muralto[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Transport network: Ticino rapid transit network[5]
  • Instance of: station located on surface[6], break-of-gauge station[7]
  • Connecting line: Giubiasco–Locarno railway[8]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[9]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[10]
  • Adjacent station: Minusio railway station[11]
  • Postal code: 6600[12]
  • Station code: LO[13]
  • Commons category: Locarno railway station[14]
  • Interchange station: Locarno railway station (FART)[15]
  • Connecting service: InterRegio[16], S20[17]
  • Official name: Locarno[18]
  • Date of official opening: January 1, 1874[19]
  • Elevation above sea level: 205 m[20]
  • State of use: in use[21]
  • P14976: 2A7FC087-D26D-4C71-868C-0D568038FC31[22]

Why It Matters

Locarno railway station has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . tilo.ch. tilo.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → 2A7FC087-D26D-4C71-868C-0D568038FC31
    Claims rich → —
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  2. 4d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'ko', 'lmo', 'pl']
    Sitelink count → 12
    Official name → {'lang': 'it', 'text': 'Locarno'}
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  3. 5w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Operator → —
    Adjacent station → Minusio railway station
    Coordinates → —
    Interchange station → Locarno railway station (FART)
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53825|batch #53825]]: redundant value: it should not have a time zone"
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