Padova railway station

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Padova

The passenger building.

The passenger building.
Location Piazzale Stazione 1
35131 Padova
Padua, Padua, Veneto
Italy
Coordinates 45°25′03″N 11°52′49″E / 45.41750°N 11.88028°E / 45.41750; 11.88028Coordinates: 45°25′03″N 11°52′49″E / 45.41750°N 11.88028°E / 45.41750; 11.88028
Owned by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Operated by Centostazioni
Line(s) Milan–Venice
Padova–Bologna
Bassano del Grappa–Padova
Calalzo–Padua
Padova–Padova Interporto
Train operators Trenitalia
Thello
Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori
Connections
  • Padua
  • Urban, suburban, national and international buses
History
Opened 3 December 1842 (1842-12-03)
Location
Padova
Location within Northern Italy

Padova railway station, or Padua railway station (Italian: Stazione di Padova), sometimes referred to as Padova Centrale, is the main station serving the city and comune of Padua, in the Veneto region, northeastern Italy.

Opened in 1842, the station forms part of the Milan–Venice railway, and is a junction for direct branch lines to Bologna, Bassano del Grappa and Camposampiero (junction for the line to Calalzo). Padova railway station is also the terminus of a short goods line to Padova Interporto.

The station is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). However, the commercial area of the passenger building is managed by Centostazioni. Each of these companies is a subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company. Train services to and from the station are operated by Trenitalia, NTV and Thello.

Location

Padova railway station is situated in Piazzale Stazione, north of the city centre.

Features

Passenger building

The passenger building has both passenger facilities and commercial activities. These include a ticket office, a customer support office, the Club Eurostar, many automated ticket machines, a luggage deposit (also used as the sale of train tickets and SITA, FTV and CTM bus tickets), an office of the railway police, two newsagents, two bars, a supermarket, two travel agencies, a bank, a post office, three car rental offices, as well as numerous businesses and travel agencies.

Station yard

Currently the station yard is composed of:

Operating under this system are the Gruppo Scambi Altichiero (ex Bivio Altichiero) and the Gruppo Scambi Montà (ex Bivio Montà). Each of these yards connects with a corresponding namesake line from Padova Campo Marte railway station, and allows freight trains coming from Bologna to continue towards Camposampiero and Milan, respectively, without having to reverse direction.

Train services

The station is one of the main railway nodes of the Italian system, with approximately 18.5 million passenger movements per year.

Around 450 passenger trains call at the station each day. They include trains of categories AV, ES *, ES *, CIS, EC, EN, Eurostar, IC, ICN, and R. The main domestic destinations served directly from Padua (all exclusively with Trenitalia trains) are Venice, Genoa, Turin, Como, Milan, Lecco, Bolzano/Bozen, Trento, Bassano del Grappa, Belluno, Calalzo di Cadore, Udine, Trieste, Mantua, Bologna, Florence, Pescara, Bari, Lecce, Rome, Naples, Messina, Palermo, Syracuse.

Some of the services to and from Bassano and Trento are operated by Trentino Trasporti using Minuetto trains, but always on behalf of Trenitalia.

The main international destinations are Nice, Paris, Geneva, Lausanne, Bern, Basel, Zürich, Schaffhausen, Innsbruck, Munich and Vienna. International trains are made up of either Trenitalia or foreign railways' rolling stock, i.e. CityNightLine (CNL, DB group) and Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB).

In addition to passenger trains, the station is affected by a number of transit freight trains operated by both Trenitalia and other companies (Ferrovie Emilia Romagna, FFS Cargo, Linea, NordCargo, Sistemi Territoriali). These trains do not stop at the station for loading and unloading, as it has had no freight facilities since the 1990s; the freight facilities are now all concentrated at the Padova Interporto railway station.

The following services call at the station:

Preceding station   Trenitalia   Following station
toward Roma Termini
Frecciargento
toward Salerno
Frecciargento
Frecciabianca
Frecciabianca
toward Lecce
Frecciabianca
toward Munich Hbf
EuroCity
EuroCity
toward Roma Termini
InterCity
Terme Euganee-Abano-Montegrotto
toward Roma Termini
Intercity Notte
Terme Euganee-Abano-Montegrotto
Treno regionale
Treno regionale
Mestrino
Treno regionale
Busa di Vigonza
Abano Terme
Treno regionaleTerminus
Vigodarzere
toward Bassano del Grappa
Treno regionaleTerminus
TerminusTreno regionale
Vigodarzere
Terminus
Treno regionale
toward Calalzo-Pieve di Cadore-Cortina
TerminusTreno regionale
Vigodarzere
toward Montebelluna
Preceding station   Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori   Following station
toward Salerno
Italo
Preceding station   Thello   Following station
Thello

Interchange

In the square in front of the passenger building are the termini of most of Padua's urban bus lines and the Translohr line (referred to simply as "tram"), all managed by APS. In addition, many provincial bus lines operated by APS, SITA, CTM, FTV, plus some national bus companies, include a stop at the station.

In June 2010, an intermodal centre was opened near the Chiesa della Pace, close to the railway station. It includes a 14 lane bus station, which serves as the terminus of several suburban lines, operated by a variety of transportation companies: APS, SITA, CTM, FTV, ACTV.[1]

See also

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Padova, al via l'intermodalità cittadina" [Padua, the city of road intermodality]. Ferrovie.it (in Italian) (Ferrovie.it). 15 June 2010. Retrieved 21 November 2012. External link in |work= (help)

Further reading

External links

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