Aosta Aoste | |||||
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 The passenger building. | |||||
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| Location | Piazza/PlaceInnocenzo Manzetti 11100 Aosta/Aoste Aosta,  Aosta ValleyItaly | ||||
| Coordinates | 45°44′03″N07°19′21″E / 45.73417°N 7.32250°E /45.73417; 7.32250 | ||||
| Operated by | Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Centostazioni | ||||
| Lines | Chivasso–Ivrea–Aosta Aosta–Pré-Saint-Didier | ||||
| Distance | 98.619 km (61.279 mi) fromChivasso | ||||
| Train operators | Trenitalia | ||||
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| Classification | Gold | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1886; 139 years ago (1886) | ||||
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Aosta/Aoste railway station (Italian:Stazione di Aosta,French:Gare d'Aoste) is themain station serving the city andcomune ofAosta, in theautonomousregion ofAosta Valley,northwestern Italy. Opened in 1886, it forms part of theChivasso–Ivrea–Aosta railway, and is also ajunction station fora branch line toPré-Saint-Didier, in theValdigne, on the way towardsCourmayeur.
The station is currently managed byRete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). However, the commercial area of thepassenger building is managed byCentostazioni. Train services to and from the station are operated byTrenitalia. Each of these companies is a subsidiary ofFerrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.
Aosta railway station is situated in the southern part of the city, a few hundred metres (yards) from the central Émile Chanoux square (town hall square), to which it is linked by Avenue Conseil des Commis.
The station has recently been renovated. It is composed of a single building with ticketing, waiting rooms, a cafe bar, a bistro restaurant and a tobacconist. A minor building, adjacent to the main one, is the headquarters of the railway police.
The station yard has eight tracks, of which five are dedicated to passenger trains, and faced by platforms equipped with steel canopies. Recently, Centrostazioni fitted the platforms and the subway to Via Paravera with illuminated signs indicating destinations and schedules.
There is nogoods shed at the station. In recent years, the only goods traffic passing through the station has been consignments ofslate, widely used for roofing in the Aosta Valley, and cargoes of waste, particularly of scrap metal, fromCogne Aciers spéciaux (CAS), a steelworks located near the station. The scrap metal was destined for foundries, and was transported several days a week by goods trains hauled by two D345 class diesel locomotives (one at each end of the train) or the new D242 class diesel locomotives.
Until 2001–2002, the station was managed in collaboration with military railway engineers (who were involved in the management of the Chivasso–Aosta railway).
The station is served by the following service:
The station has about one million passenger movements each year.[1] It is used mainly by students attending colleges in the Aosta Valley, by commuters and by tourists.
The main destinations for passengers areTurin,Chivasso,Ivrea.
Innocent Manzetti square, in front of the station, is the terminus for the majority of Aosta's urban and suburban bus lines.
Near the square is the Georges Carrel parking station, and Aosta bus station, the terminus of the bus lines of the SAVDA company.
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