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Ceva railway station () is the
railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
serving the ''
comune A (; : , ) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality. It is the third-level administrative division of Italy, after regions () and provinces (). The can also have the City status in Italy, titl ...
'' of
Ceva Ceva, the ancient Ceba, is a small Italy, Italian town in the province of Cuneo, region of Piedmont, east of Cuneo. It lies on the right bank of the Tanaro River, Tanaro on a wedge of land between that river and the Cevetta stream. History In th ...
, in the
Piedmont Piedmont ( ; ; ) is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the northwest Italy, Northwest of the country. It borders the Liguria region to the south, the Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna regions to the east, and the Aosta Valley region to the ...
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of northwestern Italy. It is the
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of the Turin–Savona and Ceva–Ormea railways. The station is currently managed by
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) is the Italian railway infrastructure manager, subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS), a state-owned holding company. RFI is the owner of Italy's railway network, it provides signalling, maintenance an ...
(RFI), while the train services are operated by
Trenitalia Trenitalia Società per azioni, SpA is the primary train operator of Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself owned by the Italian government. It was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulati ...
. Both companies are subsidiaries of
Ferrovie dello Stato Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. (; ; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the initialism FS) is Italy's national state-owned enterprise, state-owned railway holding company that manages transport, infrastructure, real estate service ...
(FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.


History

The station was opened on 28 September 1874, upon the inauguration of the track from Ceva to
Savona Savona (; ) is a seaport and (municipality) in the west part of the northern Italian region of Liguria, and the capital of the Province of Savona. Facing the Ligurian Sea, Savona is the main center of the Riviera di Ponente (the western se ...
of the Turin–Savona railway. The line Bra–Ceva closed in 1994. Passenger services on the line to
Ormea Ormea is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about south of Turin and about southeast of Cuneo. Ormea borders the following municipalities: Alto The musical term alto, meaning "high" ...
suspended from 17 June 2012 and reopened from 11 September 2016 as a
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.


Train services

The station is served by the following service(s):Piedmont region train Timetables
/ref> *Express services (''Regionale veloce'') Turin - Fossano - San Giuseppe di Cairo - Savona *Regional services (''Treno regionale'') Fossano - San Giuseppe di Cairo *Historic train (''Treno storico'') Turin - Ceva - Ormea


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External links

Railway stations in the Province of Cuneo Ceva {{Italy-railstation-stub