Cuneo railway station, or Cuneo Altipiano railway station ( or ''Stazione di Cuneo Altipiano''), is the

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serving the city and ''

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Cuneo Cuneo (; ; ; ) is a city and in Piedmont, Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the fourth largest of Italy’s provinces by area. It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) in the south-west of Piedmont, at the confluence of the ri ...

, in the

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. Opened in 1937, it is the

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of the Fossano–Cuneo, Savigliano–Cuneo, Cuneo–Ventimiglia and Cuneo–Mondovì railways. The station is currently managed by

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(RFI), and the commercial area of the passenger building by

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, while the train services 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. The other station in the city, Cuneo Gesso, forms part of the Cuneo–Mondovì railway, and is not far from the hamlet of Borgo San Giuseppe (formerly Borgo Gesso).

Location

Cuneo railway station is situated in Piazzale della Libertà, west of the city.

History

The station was opened on 7 November 1937 by the Communications Minister,

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, together with the new Madonna Olmo–Plateau Cuneo–Borgo San Dalmazzo line, which replaced the old Cuneo Gesso–Boves–Borgo San Dalmazzo line.

Features

The station yard consists of five tracks for passengers (numbered from track 1 to track 6, track 2 being used for altering the composition of the trains), and eight other tracks for goods traffic. The locomotive depot is positioned to the south of the station yard and is connected to it by a double track line. Since 30 March 2009, the station has been equipped with a new public information system that communicates directly with the equipment used for the management of trains, ensuring timely and up to date information transfer. The station also now has new loudspeakers and monitors, which are operated using a modern information technology system.

Passenger movements

The station has about 3 million passenger movements each year. It is served by

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trains to

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and

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, both via Fossano, and, via Mondovì, to

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and

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* {{Authority control Transport in Cuneo Railway stations in the Province of Cuneo Railway stations in Italy opened in 1937