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| Location | PiazzaleGuglielmo Marconi 27058 Voghera PV Voghera,Pavia,Lombardy Italy | ||||
| Coordinates | 44°59′52″N09°00′31″E / 44.99778°N 9.00861°E /44.99778; 9.00861 | ||||
| Operated by | Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Centostazioni | ||||
| Line(s) | Milano–Pavia–Voghera Alessandria–Piacenza | ||||
| Distance | 38.118 km (23.685 mi) fromAlessandria | ||||
| Train operators | Trenitalia | ||||
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| History | |||||
| Opened | 25 January 1858; 167 years ago (1858-01-25) | ||||
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Voghera railway station (Italian:Stazione di Voghera) serves the town andcomune ofVoghera, in theregion ofLombardy,northern Italy. Opened in 1858, it forms part of theAlessandria–Piacenza railway, and is also the terminus ofa railway from Milan via Pavia.
The station is currently managed byRete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). However, the commercial area of thepassenger building is managed byCentostazioni. Train services are operated byTrenitalia. Each of these companies is a subsidiary ofFerrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.
Due to its strategic position, the station is an important trading node, and one of the major railway stations in Italy's north-west.
Voghera railway station is situated at PiazzaleGuglielmo Marconi, at the northern edge of the town centre.
The station was opened on 25 January 1858, together with the rest of theAlessandria–Casteggio section of the Alessandria–Piacenza railway.[1]
On 15 November 1867, the station became ajunction station, upon the inauguration of the final,Alessandria–Voghera, section of the Milan–Pavia–Voghera railway.[1]
On 31 May 1962, the station was the scene ofa serious train crash, in which 63 people were killed and 40 injured.[2]
Inside the passenger building are the ticket office, waiting room, a bar operated by Chef Express, and most of the offices and rooms. The ticket office has a large plaque, placed in 1988, recalling the Vogherese rail workers who have fallenfor freedom or on active service.
On the platform adjacent to track 1 are a newsstand and a retailer of tobacco products. Near the newsstand, a plaque unveiled on the 40th anniversary of the 1962 train crash recalls the tragedy.
In a lateral building on the Genoa side are the office of the railway police and the public conveniences. Other offices are located in another building, in the direction of Milan.
Yet another building once served as the accommodation for visiting rail crew.
The station yard has seven tracks used for passenger service:
A platform adjacent to the passenger building is used to provide access to track 1. To serve the other tracks, there are three island platforms, all of them linked with the passenger building via threepedestrian underpasses.
The island platforms serving tracks 2/3 and 4/5 have full length canopies; the other island platform, which serves tracks 6/7, has no shelter.
There are also other tracks, used only bygoods trains.
The station has about 4.5 million passenger movements each year.[3] It is used mainly by commuters, travelling for work or study to and from the cities of Milan andPavia. However, as an intersection of two major travel routes, it is also frequently used for changing trains.
The station is served by the following service(s):
In the square outside the station is a bus stop for urban routes operated by the town of Voghera.
In the immediate vicinity of the railway station is the suburban bus station, as well as a multi-transport facility. Both are reached from the station's eastern pedestrian underpass, which is longer than the other two underpasses.
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