Bellinzona railway station

railway station in Switzerland
Place railway_station Q662556
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Summary

Bellinzona railway station is a railway station[1]. It ranks in the top 0.95% of railway station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (198 views/month, #177 of 18,574).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Bellinzona[3]
  • Country: Switzerland[4]
  • Transport network: Ticino rapid transit network[5]
  • Connecting line: Gotthard railway[6]
  • Owned by: Swiss Federal Railways[7]
  • Operator: Swiss Federal Railways[8]
  • Adjacent station: Castione-Arbedo railway station[9], Giubiasco railway station[10], Arth-Goldau railway station[11], Altdorf railway station[12], Lugano railway station[13]
  • Station code: BEL[14]
  • Commons category: Bellinzona railway station[15]
  • Inception: January 1, 1874[16]
  • Number of platform tracks: 6[17]
  • Connecting service: EuroCity[18], IC 2[19], InterRegio[20], RegioExpress[21], S50[22], S20[23], S10[24], IC 21[25]
  • Official name: Bellinzona[26]
  • Date of official opening: January 1, 1874[27]
  • Different from: Bellinzona RhB train station[28]
  • Elevation above sea level: 241 m[29]
  • Number of platform faces: 3[30]
  • State of use: in use[31]
  • P14976: DDEA5CFF-FDFE-48CC-8017-E357910EA15B[32]

Why It Matters

Bellinzona railway station has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

References

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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. [3] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . 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] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Retrieved . lod.opentransportdata.swiss. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . Q141593662. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9h ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → DDEA5CFF-FDFE-48CC-8017-E357910EA15B
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  2. 3d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fr', 'it', 'ko', 'lmo', 'pl']
    Official name → {'lang': 'it', 'text': 'Bellinzona'}
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  3. 6w ago · VIGNERON · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Connecting service → EuroCity, IC 2, InterRegio +5
    Instance of → —
    Country → Switzerland
    Inception → +1874-01-01T00:00:00Z
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    "/* 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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