Roma Porta San Paolo is the terminal train station of the

Rome–Lido railway The Rome–Lido railway, branded as Metromare, is an urban railway line connecting the Porta San Paolo Station in Rome to Lido di Ostia, Rome's seaside neighborhood. The railway is long, stops at 13 stations and carries on average over 90,00 ...

line in Rome (Italy). The station is connected to the station '' Piramide'' of the

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( line B) and to the

Roma Ostiense railway station Roma Ostiense is a railway station in Piazza dei Partigiani serving the Ostiense district of Rome, Italy, a short distance from the Porta San Paolo. It is run by the Rete Ferroviaria Italiana arm of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane group and the ...

of the ''

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''. It has six tracks. The edifice houses the ticket office and service structures, as well as a news-stand and a coffee shop. It also includes the Porta San Paolo Railway Museum.

History

The building of the station was started, together with the railway, at the beginning of 1919, after the inauguration ceremony of December 30, 1918 in the presence of King

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. The station was designed by

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. A quite similar one was the Ostia Nuova terminal train station, whose foundation stone was laid on December 10, 1920, also in the presence of the King, and that was destroyed during the war. The graffiti decorating the interior of the station are works by the Florentine artist Giulio Rosso. The station and the railway line were inaugurated on August 10, 1924, with a special ride, in which

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– who had become Prime Minister in the meanwhile – took part.

Services

The station has available the following services: * Feature ticket office

Ticket office * Feature accessible

Accessibility to disabled persons * AB-Autobahnkiosk

Coffee shop * News

News stand * Italian traffic signs - icona museo

Museum

Interchanges

Metro

Piramide station, Line B.

Railway

Buses

Terminus station for

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bus and tram lines *Weekdays and holidays: 77 – 775 *Weekdays only: 769 *Night: n3d – n3s * Feature suburban buses

passing bus lines *Weekdays and holidays: 3 – 23 – 30EX – 75 – 83 – 96 – 280 – 715 – 716 – 719 – 780 *Night: nMB – nME – n716

References

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Porta San Paolo The Porta San Paolo (English: Saint Paul Gate) is one of the southern gates in the 3rd-century Aurelian Walls of Rome, Italy. The Via Ostiense Museum (') is housed within the gatehouse. It is in the Ostiense quarter; just to the west is the Roma ...

Railway stations in Italy opened in 1924