Giampilieri railway station

Giampilieri
Giampilieri station, south side
General information
Location	Messina, Sicily Italy
Coordinates	38°11′6.48″N15°33′39.35″E / 38.1851333°N 15.5609306°E / 38.1851333; 15.5609306
Owned by	Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Operated by	Centostazioni
Lines	Messina–Syracuse
Platforms	2 (3 tracks)
Train operators	Trenitalia
Connections	Messina Suburban Railway ATM buses
Construction
Structure type	surface station, passing through
Other information
Classification	Railway stations in Italy
History
Opened	1866;159 years ago (1866)
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Giampilieri Station is a railway station on the Messina-Syracuse line. It serves the town of Giampilieri Marina, a hamlet in the municipality of Messina. The double track from Messina to Syracuse terminates here and then resumes from Fiumefreddo di Sicilia to Catania.

Recent History

On December 14, 2008, the new stops at Fiumara Gazzi, Mili Marina, Ponte Santo Stefano, Ponte Schiavo, and San Paolo were opened. ^[1] These stops were served by trains from the Giampilieri-Messina Metroferrovia starting on June 15 of the following year. ^{[2] [3]}

Giampilieri station tracks after the landslide of October 1, 2009.

In October 2009, the station was hit by a landslide flood that interrupted the Messina-Syracuse line for several days.

For the Messina-Catania line – an electrified double track connection between Fiumefreddo-Giampilieri section work began in 2022 and completion is scheduled for December 2029. ^[4]

The station is connected to the city centre by two ATM bus lines: line no. 1 Shuttle (Lighthouse Tower - Central Station - Giampilieri Superiore) and line no. 2 shuttle (Briga - Giampilieri Superiore - Altolia). ^[5]

See also

• Messina Centrale railway station

Notes and references

1. Impianti FS, in "I Treni" n. 311 (gennaio 2009), pp. 8-10
2. Treni metropolitani, in "I Treni" n. 317 (July 2009), p. 4
3. trenitalia.com, ed. (1 November 2025). "orario digitale Calabria-Sicilia q.97 p.151" (PDF) (in Italian).
4. fsitaliane.it (ed.). "Raddoppio Fiumefreddo-Giampilieri" . Retrieved 30 August 2025.
5. Linee ed orari bus, atmmessinaspa.it, Messina, 2025

External links

• Geographic data related to Giampilieri railway station at OpenStreetMap