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Cadenazzo–Luino railway

railway line in Italy and Switzerland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ802063 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Cadenazzo–Luino railway is a railway line along the northeastern coast of Lago Maggiore. It conntects the towns of Cadenazzo and Luino, crossing the Italy–Switzerland border.

History

The line was opened on 4 December 1882 by the Gotthardbahn. On 1 May 1909 it became part of the Swiss Federal Railways. It was electrified on 11 June 1960.

Service

The railway is served by the S30, operated by TiLo.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cadenazzo–Luino railway” is railway line in Italy and Switzerland. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cadenazzo, Luino and railway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1882, 1909, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cadenazzo, Luino and railway is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cadenazzo–Luino railway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.