Rovereto railway station

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Rovereto
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The Piazzale and the passenger building
General information
LocationPiazzale Paolo Orsi
38068 Rovereto TN
Rovereto (TN), Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Italy
Coordinates 45°53′27″N11°02′02″E / 45.89083°N 11.03389°E / 45.89083; 11.03389
Operated by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Centostazioni
Line(s) Verona–Innsbruck
Distance71.21 km (44.25 mi)
from Verona Porta Vescovo
Train operators Trenitalia
ÖBB-DB
Connections
  • Urban and interurban buses
Other information
Classification Gold
History
Opened23 March 1859;164 years ago (1859-03-23)
Rovereto railway station
Location
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Location in Trentino
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Location in Northern Italy
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Rovereto railway station (Italian : Ferrovie Stazione di Rovereto) serves the Comune of Rovereto in the autonomous province of Trentino, northeastern Italy.

Contents

The station was opened in 1859 by the Austrian Empire's Südbahn and transferred to Italy in 1919. Rovereto station is located on the trans-Alpine Brenner Railway connecting Verona and Innsbruck.

The station is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). The commercial area of the passenger building, however, is managed by Centostazioni, whereas train services are operated by Trenitalia and ÖBB-DB.

Location

Rovereto railway station is situated at Piazzale Paolo Orsi , the western edge and a five-minute walk to the city centre.

History

The station was opened on 23 March 1859 upon the completion of the Trento-Ala section of the Brenner Railway. [1]

Initial train operations were entrusted to the Austrian Empire's Südbahn (Imperial Royal Privileged Southern Railway Company of Austria, Venice and Central Italy / German : Kaiserlich königliche privilegierte Südbahngesellschaft ).

After Austria-Hungary's defeat in the First World War, the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) rewarded Italy with annexation of County of Tyrol's territory south of the Brenner Pass. Ownership of all railway stations from Ala/Ahl-am-Etsch to Brenner, including Rovereto, were consequently transferred to Ferrovie dello Stato (FS).

Features

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The station yard

The station has three tracks with platforms for passenger trains and additional tracks in the goods yard, which can be accessed by trucks and other vehicles from Via Zeni on the opposite side of the station building.

There have been plans to transfer the goods yard southwards to Mori railway aistation to make room for a larger, bifrontal station, thus providing access on both sides from Piazzale Orsi and Via Zeni. [2]

Train services

The station has about two million passenger movements per year and is therefore, in terms of passenger numbers, the third biggest within the region, after Bolzano/Bozen and Trento. [3]

The following services call at this station:

Domestic

Cross-border

(A for Austria, D for Germany)

Interchange

At Piazzale Orsi, close to railway station building, urban bus routes A, 4, 5, 6 and 7 stop here as well as suburban services to Trento, Riva del Garda and Ala.

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References

  1. Alessandro Tuzza; et al. "Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926" [Chronological overview of the features of the railways opened between 1839 and 31 December 1926]. www.trenidicarta.it (in Italian). Alessandro Tuzza. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
  2. "Il bilancio 2008 scomette sulla qualità della città" [The 2008 budget bets on the quality of the city]. Comune di Rovereto website (in Italian). Comune di Rovereto. 22 November 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  3. "Flussi Annui nelle 103 Stazioni" [Annual flows at the 103 stations]. www.centostazioni.it (in Italian). Centostazioni. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.

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