Brescia railway station

Brescia

The passenger building.

The passenger building.
Location Viale della Stazione 7
25122 Brescia
Brescia, Brescia, Lombardy
Italy
Coordinates 45°31′57″N 10°12′46″E / 45.53250°N 10.21278°ECoordinates: 45°31′57″N 10°12′46″E / 45.53250°N 10.21278°E
Operated by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Centostazioni
Line(s) Milan–Venice
Lecco–Brescia
Brescia–Cremona
Brescia–Iseo–Edolo
Brescia–Parma
Distance 82.842 km (51.476 mi)
from Milano Centrale
Train operators Trenitalia
Trenord
Thello
Connections
Other information
Classification Gold
History
Opened 24 April 1854
Location
Brescia
Location within Northern Italy

Brescia railway station (Italian: Stazione di Brescia) serves the city and comune of Brescia, in the region of Lombardy, northern Italy. Opened in 1854, the station forms part of the Milan–Venice railway. It is also the terminus of secondary lines from Cremona, Lecco and Parma, as well as the Brescia–Iseo–Edolo railway.

The station is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). The commercial area of the passenger building, however, is managed by Centostazioni. Train services on all lines are operated by Trenitalia, except the Brescia-Iseo-Edolo route by Trenord. All of these companies are subsidiaries of FS, Italy's state-owned rail company.

Location

Brescia railway station is situated at Viale della Stazione, at the south-western edge of the city centre.

History

Built as a project of the engineer Benedetto Foix, the station was opened on 24 April 1854, upon the inauguration of the Coccaglio - Verona section of the Milan–Venice railway.[1][2]

Features

The passenger building is of a neoclassical style, influenced by neo-Roman elements and medieval style fortifications.

The station yard is equipped with ten tracks reserved for passenger traffic, three of which are included in the so-called West Yard (Italian: Piazzale Ovest), which is dedicated to arrivals and departures of trains on the Brescia–Iseo–Edolo railway.

Of the other seven tracks, the first track is generally reserved for trains coming from Milan and heading towards Verona and Venice, while track two is for trains in the reverse direction. Tracks three to seven are dedicated to arrivals and departures of the three Trenord regional rail lines, namely the Brescia–Cremona railway, the Lecco–Brescia railway and the Brescia–Parma railway.

Some of the tracks not used for passenger services are dedicated to goods trains to and from Brescia Scalo, while others are used for the storage of rolling stock.

Train services

The following services call at the station (incomplete):

Domestic

Cross-border

(CH for Switzerland, F for France, A for Austria, D for Germany)

Preceding station   Trenitalia   Following station
Thello
toward Venice

^ Train connects at Verona with DB CityNightLine Rome-Munich

Passenger and train movements

The station has about nine million passenger movements each year.[3]

Long-distance traffic to and from the station is catered for by Eurostar City Italia and Eurostar Italia trains.

Regional passenger services on all lines other than the Brescia–Iseo–Edolo line are operated by Trenitalia, while the passenger trains on the Edolo line are operated by LeNord. In each case, the operating company is working on behalf of Trenitalia LeNord.

Interchange

Near the passenger building there are two bus stations for suburban public transport: the main bus station and the SIA bus station. The forecourt is also an interchange point for several bus lines. The SIA bus station, with departures to Mantova, Verona, Milan Bergamo (Orio al Serio) Airport and other destinations, is directly linked by a short walkway to the train station's forecourt.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Alessandro Tuzza and others. "Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926" [Chronological overview of the features of the railways opened between 1839 and 31 December 1926]. Trenidicarta.it (in Italian). Alessandro Tuzza. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
  2. ↑ Ganzerla, Giancarlo (2004). Binari sul Garda - Dalla Ferdinandea al tram: tra cronaca e storia [Rails on the Garda - From Ferdinandbahn to tramway: between chronicle and history]. Brescia: Grafo. p. 126. ISBN 88-7385-633-0.
  3. ↑ "Flussi Annui nelle 103 Stazioni" [Annual flows at the 103 stations]. Centostazioni website (in Italian). Centostazioni. Retrieved 4 December 2010.

External links

Media related to Brescia railway station at Wikimedia Commons

This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at January 2011.