Gorizia Centrale railway station ( it, Stazione di Gorizia Centrale; german: Görz Südbahnhof (former name)) is the main station serving the town and '' comune'' of

Gorizia Gorizia (; sl, Gorica , colloquially 'old Gorizia' to distinguish it from Nova Gorica; fur, label=Standard Friulian, Gurize, fur, label= Southeastern Friulian, Guriza; vec, label= Bisiacco, Gorisia; german: Görz ; obsolete English ''Goritz ...

, in the autonomous

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Friuli-Venezia Giulia (man), it, Friulana (woman), it, Giuliano (man), it, Giuliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_t ...

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Overview

Opened in 1860, the station forms part of the Udine–Trieste railway, and is also a

junction station ''Junction station'' usually refers to a railway station situated on or close to a junction where lines to several destinations diverge. The usual minimum is three incoming lines. At a station with platforms running from left to right, the minimum ...

for an international branch line linking Gorizia with

Ajdovščina Ajdovščina (; it, Aidussina,trilingual name "Haidenschaft, Aidussina, Ajdovščina" inGemeindelexikon, der im Reichsrate Vertretenen Königreiche und Länder. Bearbeit auf Grund der Ergebnisse der Volkszählung vom 31. Dezember 1900. Herausgege ...

in nearby

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. The station is currently managed by

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(RFI). However, the commercial area of the passenger building is managed by

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. Train services to and from the station are operated by

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. Each of these companies is a subsidiary of

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(FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.

Location

Gorizia Centrale railway station is situated at ''Piazzale Martiri per la Libertà d'Italia'', at the southwestern edge of the city centre.

History

The station was opened on , upon the inauguration of the

Cormons Cormons or Cormòns ( sl, Krmin, german: Kremaun) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about west of Gorizia, on the border with Slovenia. Cormons borders the f ...

–Galleria section of the Udine–Trieste railway. Located at that time in the territory of the

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, the station then had the dual name of ''Görz/Gorizia'' and was operated by the Imperial Royal Privileged Southern Railway Company of

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and central Italy (German: ). In 1902, the station became a junction station for the branch line to

(Italian: ; German:), built by the Austrian imperial society , which awarded management rights to the ''Südbahngesellschaft''. Four years later, upon the opening of the Jesenice-Trieste railway (part of the network of railway lines known as the Transalpine Railway), the station took on the dual designation of ''Görz Südbahnhof/Gorizia Meridionale'', to distinguish it from its counterpart on the new line, the ''Görz Staatsbahnhof/Gorizia stazione delle ferrovie dello stato'' (now the Nova Gorica railway station). The two systems were connected by a short rail link using part of the branch line to Ajdovščina. Under the

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, the two stations went to the

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, and the FS became the operator of both. Over the next twelve years, the station on the Udine-Trieste railway changed its name several times: initially it retained only its Italian name ''Gorizia Meridionale'', then it became ''Gorizia Campagnuzza'', and since 1923 it has been ''Gorizia Centrale''.

Features

Inside the station, there are ticket windows, ticket machines, a lounge, a bar, a newsagency, and passport photo machines. All the regional trains travelling on the Udine-Trieste railway stop at the station, and some of them terminate there.

Train services

The movement of passengers is about 1.4 million people a year, which means that the station is the fifth busiest station in Friuli-Venezia Giulia in terms of numbers of passengers. The station is served by the following service(s): *Night train (''Intercity Notte'') ''Rome - Bologna - Venice - Udine - Trieste'' *Express services (''Regionale Veloce'') ''Venice - Treviso - Udine - Gorizia - Trieste'' *Regional services (''Treno regionale'') ''Venice - Treviso - Udine - Gorizia - Trieste''

References

External links

History and pictures of Gorizia Centrale railway station
''This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at November 2010.'' {{Italian railway stations Centrale Railway Station Railway stations in Friuli-Venezia Giulia Railway stations opened in 1860