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Melide railway station

railway station in Switzerland
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Summary

Melide railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.97% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (20 views/month, #180 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Canton of Ticino[3], Melide[4]
  • Country: Switzerland[5]
  • Transport network: Ticino rapid transit network[6]
  • Connecting line: Gotthard railway[7]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[8]
  • Operator: Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia[9]
  • Adjacent station: Lugano-Paradiso railway station[10], Maroggia-Melano railway station[11]
  • Station code: MDE[12]
  • Commons category: Melide railway station[13]
  • Has facility: ticket machine[14]
  • Number of platform tracks: 3[15]
  • Connecting service: S90[16], S50[17], S10[18]
  • Official name: Melide[19]
  • Date of official opening: 1874[20]
  • Elevation above sea level: 274 m[21]
  • Number of platform faces: 1[22]
  • State of use: in use[23]

Why It Matters

Melide railway station is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . tilo.ch. tilo.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [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 · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'it', 'lmo']
    Official name → {'lang': 'it', 'text': 'Melide'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ source for position, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Connecting service → S90, S50, S10
    Instance of → —
    Country → Switzerland
    Owned by → —
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/51993|batch #51993]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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