TriesteCentrale
The main entrance
General information
Location	Piazza della Libertà 34132 Trieste TS Trieste,Trieste,Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy
Coordinates	45°39′27″N13°46′20″E / 45.657470°N 13.772105°E /45.657470; 13.772105
Operated by	Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Centostazioni
Lines	Venice–Trieste Udine–Trieste Vienna–Trieste
Train operators	Trenitalia
Connections	Trieste Trasporti, suburban and international buses Ferries toDurrës
Other information
IATA code	TXB
Classification	Gold
History
Opened	27 July 1857; 168 years ago (1857-07-27)
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Trieste Centrale railway station (IATA:TXB) (Italian:Stazione ferroviaria di Trieste Centrale; formerlyGerman:Triest Südbahnhof) is themain station serving the city and municipality (comune) ofTrieste, in theautonomousregion ofFriuli-Venezia Giulia,northeastern Italy.

Opened in 1857, the station is aterminus for direct lines toVenice,Udine andVienna, and for the belt line leading to Trieste'smarshalling yard, near the now closedTrieste Campo Marzio railway station.

Trieste Centrale is currently managed byRete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). However, the commercial area of thepassenger building is managed byCentostazioni. Train services towards Italy from the station are operated byTrenitalia, a subsidiary ofFerrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company and Italian private companyNuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori. A daily international connection is operated byÖBB towardsWien viaLjubljana.

Trieste Centrale railway station is situated at Piazza della Libertà, north of the city centre. It is at the western end of theBorgo Teresiano [it] district, adjacent to the oldfree port ofTrieste.

The present day rail network of the city of Trieste is based, for the most part, upon railway lines constructed by the formerAustrian andAustro-Hungarian empires. On 27 July 1857, the Austrian railway companyk.k. Südliche Staatsbahn (SStB) completed the construction of Trieste's first railway facilities. They formed part of the Vienna–Trieste railway, via theSemmering pass.

On the same day, in the presence of theAustrian EmperorFranz Joseph I, the newterminal station at Trieste, including its relatively modest original passenger building designed by the engineerCarl Ritter von Ghega (Italian:Carlo Ghega), was officially opened.^[1] It had been built on reclaimed land, at the site of the present Trieste Centrale.

The following year, on 23 September 1858, the station, along with the rest of the line, passed into the ownership of the private railway company Imperial Royal Privileged Southern Railway Company ofAustria,Venice andcentral Italy (German:Kaiserlich königliche privilegierte Südbahngesellschaft), following the takeover by that company of the privatisedk.k. Südliche Staatsbahn.

The inclusion of Trieste in the main axis of the AustrianSüdbahn generated an economic upswing in the largest and most important port city ruled by the Austrian monarchy, and strengthened its position in theHabsburg Empire. Rapid development of trade routes to and from Trieste, and therefore also the city itself, soon led to a decision to replace the original passenger building. The new, more elegant, and richly styledNeo-Renaissance structure was designed byWilhelm von Flattich [de]. Its most notable features were a monumental hall, later known as the Royal Hall, and a majestic glass train hall. Its inauguration took place on 19 June 1878.

In 1887, theImperial Royal Austrian State Railways (German:kaiserlich-königliche österreichische Staatsbahnen) opened a new railway line, theTrieste–Hrpelje railway [it] (German:Hrpelje-Bahn), from the new port of Trieste toHrpelje-Kozina, on theIstrian railway [it].^[1] The intended function of the new line was to reduce the Austrian Empire's dependence on theSüdbahn network.^[2] Its opening gave Trieste a second station, which was namedTrieste Sant'Andrea (German:Triest Sankt Andrea). The two stations were connected by a railway line that in the initial plans had to be an interim solution: theRive railway [it] (German:Rive-Bahn).

With the opening of theJesenice-Trieste railway (part of the network of railway lines known as the Transalpine Railway) in 1906, the St Andrea station was replaced by a new, more capacious, facility, namedTrieste stazione dello Stato (German:Triest Staatsbahnhof). The original station came to be identified asTrieste stazione della Meridionale orTrieste Meridionale (German:Triest Südbahnhof).

FollowingWorld War I and theTreaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), both stations came under the management of the FS. The original station was later renamedTrieste Centrale, andTrieste stazione dello Stato becameTrieste Campo Marzio.

With the addition of the station to the Centostazioni project, it became possible to subject the passenger building to a long restoration and renovation. The work was completed in 2007, and included the full restoration of access from Via Miramare to the Royal Hall.

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The renovated station (by Centostazioni in 2007) houses a large passenger building with facilities including a ticket office, central waiting area, chapel, bar, supermarket, bookshop, pharmacy and a new lounge dedicated to high-speed train passengers (Freccia Club, formerly Eurostar Italia). There are offices for the railway police, Trenitalia and its operations management.

As a terminal station, Trieste Centrale has nine terminating tracks used for passenger service, which is served by five platforms. In 2009, a terminal was opened for the transport of cars. There are also track sidings, alocomotive shed and workshops. Due to its close proximity to the port of Trieste, the station has nogoods yard.

The urban bus stops are directly located in front of the station's main entrance. The Autostazione bus station is located to the south and there are long-distance services to Slovenia, Austria and the Balkan Peninsula.

The station has about six million passenger movements each year.^[3] It is served by trains linking it with all of Italy.

The station is served by the following services:

• High speed services (Frecciargento)Rome – Florence – Bologna – Padua – Venice – Trieste
• High speed services (Frecciarossa)Turin – Milan – Verona – Padua – Venice – Trieste
• Intercity servicesRome – Florence – Bologna – Padua – Venice – Trieste
• Night train (Intercity Notte)Rome – Bologna – Venice – Udine – Trieste
• Express services (Regionale Veloce)Venice – Portogruaro – Cervignano del Friuli – Trieste
• Express services (Regionale Veloce)Venice – Treviso – Udine – Gorizia – Trieste
• Regional services (Treno regionale)Venice – Treviso – Udine – Gorizia – Trieste
• Regional services (Treno regionale)Tarvisio – Carnia – Gemona del Friuli – Udine – Cervignano del Friuli – Trieste
• Regional services (Treno regionale)Ljubljana – Sežana – Trieste
• EurocityVienna – Ljubljana – Trieste

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  The entry to Trieste Centrale
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  Inside Trieste Centrale.
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  Looking up inside Trieste Centrale.
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  An FS push-pull train at Trieste Centrale.
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  FS Class E.656 andFS Class E.646 at Trieste Centrale.
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  Push pull train at Trieste Centrale.

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