Trieste Centrale railway station

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Stazione Centrale di Trieste Trieste Centrale or is the main station of the northern Italian city of Trieste and one of the major stations of the autonomous region Friuli- Venezia Giulia.

Location

The station is located in Piazza della Libertà, on the western end of the neighborhood Borgo Teresiano in the immediate vicinity of the old free port of Trieste.

Rail connections and capacity

The main railway station is on the railway line Trieste Venice -Trieste - Opicina and is the terminus of the railway line Venice -Udine -Trieste. The head station has nine tracks and is used annually by about six million passengers. Since the summer of 2009, the DB Auto Train travels to Trieste Train Station.

History

Today's rail transport network of the city of Trieste is based primarily on railway lines from the old Austrian administration. The Austrian railway company k.k. Southern State Railways ( SSTB ) reached Trieste after the bridge of the Semmering on 27 July 1857, made ​​the connection Vienna -Trieste ago. The connection Trieste to the main axis of the Austrian Southern Railway led to an economic boom in the largest and most important port city of the Austrian monarchy, and strengthening their position in the Habsburg Empire. On September 23, 1858, the SSTB was sold to the Southern Railway Company ( privatization ), whereby the Vienna- Trieste went up in a huge railway network.

Trieste Centrale is the current name of the station of the former Southern Railway, which was built on reclaimed land and formed the terminus of the line from Vienna to Trieste. The current station building was designed in 1878 by the German - Austrian architect and construction director of the Austrian Southern Railway Company, William of Flattich, and built and inaugurated on 19 June of the same year.

Gallery

• Station building
• Tracks
• Platforms
• Locomotive E464