Padova railway station

Padova
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. Train services to and from the station are operated by Trenitalia. Each of these companies is a subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.

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:

• Passenger yard with eleven loops, of which nine (tracks 1–3, and 5–10) are equipped with platforms and the remaining two (4 and 11) are used for manoeuvres, as well as stabling of trains;
• Secondary yard (ex Yard A, ex Padova Scalo), located south of the line to Venice; used only for stabling of trains that originate or terminate at this station;
• Locomotive depot, wedged between the lines to Milan and Bologna;
• Wash stalls, located north of the line to Milan; also used for stabling of trains.

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 (incomplete):

• High speed services (Frecciargento) Naples - Rome - Florence - Bologna - Padua - Venice
• High speed services (Frecciabianca) Turin - Milan - Verona - Padua - Venice - Trieste
• High speed services (Frecciabianca) Lecce - Bari - Ancona - Rimini - Padua - Venice
• High speed services (Italo) (Salerno - Naples -) Rome - Florence - Bologna - Padua - Venice
• Intercity services (Eurocity) Munich - Innsbruck - Verona - Padua - Venice
• Intercity services (Eurocity) Geneva - Lausanne - Brig - Milan - Verona - Padua - Venice
• Intercity services (Intercity) Naples - Rome - Florence - Bologna - Padua - Venice - Trieste
• Night train (Thello) Paris - Milan - Verona - Padua - Venice
• Night train (EuroNight) Rome - Padua - Villach - Vienna
• Night train (Intercity Notte) Rome - Bologna - Padua - Venice - Trieste
• Regional services (Treno regionale) Bologna - Ferrara - Rovigo - Padua - Venice
• Local services (Treno regionale) Verona - Vicenza - Padua - Venice
• Local services (Treno regionale) Bologna - Ferrara - Rovigo - Monselice - Padua
• Local services (Treno regionale) Bassano del Grappa - Citadella - Padua
• Local services (Treno regionale) Treviso - Castelfranca Veneto - Padua
• Local services (Treno regionale) Padua - Montebelluna - Belluno - Calalzo di Cadore
• Local services (Treno regionale) Padua - Monselice - Cerea - Nogara - Mantova

Preceding station		Trenitalia		Following station
Bologna Centrale toward Rome Termini		Eurostar Italia		Venice Mestre toward Venice Santa Lucia
Rovigo toward Salerno		Eurostar Italia		Venice Mestre toward Venice Santa Lucia
Vicenza toward Turin Porta Nuova		Eurostar Italia		Venice Mestre toward Trieste Centrale
Vicenza toward Turin Porta Nuova		Eurostar Italia		Venice Mestre toward Venice Santa Lucia
Rovigo toward Lecce		Eurostar Italia		Venice Mestre toward Venice Santa Lucia
Verona Porta Nuova toward Munich Hbf		EuroCity		Venice Mestre toward Venice Santa Lucia
Vicenza toward Geneva Cornavin		EuroCity		Venice Mestre toward Venice Santa Lucia
Monselice toward Naples Centrale		InterCity		Venice Mestre toward Trieste Centrale
Vicenza toward Paris-Gare de Lyon		Thello		Venice Mestre toward Venice Santa Lucia
Ferrara toward Rome		EuroNight		Venice Mestre toward Vienna Meidling
Terme Euganee-Abano-Montegrotto toward Rome		InterCity Night		Venice Mestre toward Trieste Centrale
Terme Euganee-Abano-Montegrotto toward Bologna Centrale		Treno regionale		Venice Mestre toward Venice Santa Lucia
Mestrino toward Verona Porta Nuova		Treno regionale		Ponte di Brenta toward Venice Santa Lucia
Abano Terme toward Bologna Centrale		Treno regionale		Terminus
Vigodarzere toward Bassano del Grappa		Treno regionale		Terminus
Vigodarzere toward Treviso Centrale		Treno regionale		Terminus
Campodarsego toward Calalzo-Pieve di Cadore-Cortina		Treno regionale		Terminus
Abano Terme toward Mantova		Treno regionale		Terminus
Preceding station		Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori		Following station
Bologna Centrale toward Salerno		Eurostar Italia		Venice Mestre toward Venice Santa Lucia

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

• History of rail transport in Italy
• List of railway stations in Veneto
• Rail transport in Italy
• Railway stations in Italy

References

Notes

Further reading

• Cornolò, Giovanni (2005). La Società Veneta Ferrovie (in Italian). Ponte San Nicolò (PD): Duegi Editrice. ISBN 88-900979-6-5. 
• Santinello, Mario (1979). La Ferrovia Padova - Piazzola - Carmignano (in Italian). Cortona (AR): Calosci. 

External links

Media related to Padova railway station at Wikimedia Commons

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