Pescara Centrale railway station

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Pescara Centrale
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Exterior of the station building
General information
LocationVia Enzo Ferrari
65124 Pescara PE
Pescara, Pescara, Abruzzo
Italy
Coordinates 42°28′04″N14°12′15″E / 42.46778°N 14.20417°E / 42.46778; 14.20417
Operated by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Centostazioni
Line(s) Ancona–Lecce (Trenitalia)
Rome-Pescara
Distance349.969 km (217.461 mi)
from Bologna Centrale
Platforms8+2
Train operators Trenitalia
Connections
  • Urban and suburban buses
Other information
Classification Gold
History
Opened1987
Location
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Pescara Centrale
Location in Abruzzo
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Pescara Centrale
Location in Italy

Pescara Centrale railway station (Italian : stazione ferroviaria di Pescara Centrale), also known as Pescara railway station (Italian: stazione ferroviaria di Pescara), is the main railway station of Pescara. The station lies on the Adriatic line from Rimini to Lecce and the trans-Apennine line to Rome. It serves an average of 3.5 million people per year and is a 5-minute walk to the city's main street and to the beach.

Contents

The commercial area of the passenger building is managed by Centostazioni SpA, whereas the Italian Railway Network (RFI) is responsible for the railway infrastructure.

Architecture

The former headquarters of Pescara Central Station was a nineteenth-century palace at the same site. The initial draft of a new passenger building was drawn up in 1962 by Corrado Cameli Service Work for the FS. This draft proposed a steel-frame structure of the new station building, but changed to pre-stressed concrete in 1970, when structural calculations were carried out by the Studio Engineer Giovanni Cerasoli and Piero di Pescara, with the advice from the engineer Carlo Guidi Baskets. The modern-day building is one of the earliest constructions to be made of pre-stressed concrete among Italian railway stations.

The new station building was completed in 1987, when all eight railway tracks in and out of the station being raised to viaduct levels to avoid ground level-crossings.

Train services

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Pescara Centrale

The station is served by the following services (incomplete):

Preceding station  Trenitalia  Following station
toward  Milano Centrale
Frecciarossa
toward  Bari Centrale
toward  Milano Centrale
Frecciabianca
toward  Lecce
toward  Milano Centrale
Frecciabianca
toward  Taranto
Frecciabianca
toward  Lecce
Frecciabianca
toward  Lecce
InterCity
toward  Lecce
InterCity
toward  Taranto
toward  Milano Centrale
Intercity Notte
toward  Lecce
toward  Milano Centrale
Intercity Notte
toward  Lecce
Intercity Notte
toward  Lecce
toward  Rimini
Treno regionale Terminus
Terminus Treno regionale
toward  Roma Tiburtina
toward  Teramo
Treno regionale
toward  Avezzano
Preceding station  Ferrovia Adriatico Sangritana  Following station
toward  Teramo
Treno regionale
toward  Termoli
Treno regionale
toward  Termoli
toward  Teramo
Treno regionale
toward  Lanciano
Treno regionale
toward  Lanciano

Interchanges

The bus station is located at the front of Pescara Centrale railway station. Bus services include connections within Pescara to Chieti, Lanciano, and Abruzzo Airport (Urban Bus no. 38). Long-distance coaches to Rome-Tiburtina and Bologna have their terminus at this bus station in Pescara.

From the bus station in front of the station there has been a daily connection of ITA Airways by bus, to and from Rome Fiumicino Airport since 1 December 2022, allowing a connection with the airline's hub.

Services

The station building hosts a ticket office, automatic ticket machines, two newspaper stands, a cafe bar, and a pharmacy. During the night hours, entry into the station building is only permitted for passengers with valid InterCity Notte (ICN) tickets.

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