Rovereto railway station

Rovereto
Rovereto
	ÖBB-DB
Connections	Urban and interurban buses;
Other information
Classification	Gold
History
Opened	23 March 1859; 165 years ago
Location
	Rovereto Location in Trentino Rovereto Location in Northern Italy Rovereto Location in Italy

Rovereto railway station (

autonomous province of Trentino

, northeastern Italy.

The station was opened in 1859 by the Austrian Empire's

Brenner Railway connecting Verona and Innsbruck

.

The station is currently managed by

ÖBB-DB

.

Location

Rovereto railway station is situated at Piazzale Paolo Orsi, the western edge and a five-minute walk to the city centre.

History

The station was opened on 23 March 1859 upon the completion of the Trento-Ala section of the Brenner Railway.^[1]

Initial train operations were entrusted to the Austrian Empire's Südbahn (Imperial Royal Privileged Southern Railway Company of Austria, Venice and Central Italy / German: Kaiserlich königliche privilegierte Südbahngesellschaft).

After Austria-Hungary's defeat in the First World War, the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) rewarded Italy with annexation of County of Tyrol's territory south of the Brenner Pass. Ownership of all railway stations from Ala/Ahl-am-Etsch to Brenner, including Rovereto, were consequently transferred to Ferrovie dello Stato (FS).

Features

The station has three tracks with platforms for passenger trains and additional tracks in the

goods yard

, which can be accessed by trucks and other vehicles from Via Zeni on the opposite side of the station building.

There have been plans to transfer the goods yard southwards to Mori railway aistation to make room for a larger, bifrontal station, thus providing access on both sides from Piazzale Orsi and Via Zeni.^[2]

Train services

The station has about two million passenger movements per year and is therefore, in terms of passenger numbers, the third biggest within the region, after Bolzano/Bozen and Trento.^[3]

The following services call at this station:

Domestic

High-speed train (Trenitalia Frecciargento) Bolzano/Bozen-Naples: Bolzano/Bozen - Trento/Trient - Rovereto/Rofreit - Verona - Bologna - Florence - Rome - (Naples)
Regional train (Trenitalia Regional) Brennero/Brenner-Bologna: Brennero/Brenner - Vipiteno/Sterzing - Fortezza/Franzensfeste - Bressanone/Brixen - Chuisa/Klausen - Bolzano/Bozen - Ora/Auer - Trento/Trient - Rovereto/Rofreit - Ala/Ahl-am-Etsch - Verona - Isola della Scala - Nogara - Mirandola - Bologna
Regional Train (Trenitalia Regional) Bolzano/Bozen-Ala/Ahl-am-Etsch: Bolzano/Bozen - Laives/Leifers - Ora/Aura - Egna/Neumarkt - Salorno/Salurn - Mezzocorona/Kronmetz - Trento/Trient - Rovereto/Rofreit - Mori - Ala/Ahl-am-Etsch

Cross-border

(A for Austria, D for Germany)

Intercity train (
ÖBB
EuroCity) Munich-Verona/Venice: Munich (Hbf) (D) - Rosenheim (D) - Kufstein (A) - Jenbach (A) - Innsbruck (A) - Bolzano/Bozen - Trento/Trient - Rovereto/Rofreit - Verona - (Padua) - (Venice)
Intercity train (
ÖBB
EuroCity) Munich-Verona/Bologna: Munich (Hbf) (D) - Rosenheim (D) - Kufstein (A) - Jenbach (A) - Innsbruck (A) - Bolzano/Bozen - Trento/Trient - Rovereto/Rofreit - Verona - (Bologna)

Interchange

At Piazzale Orsi, close to railway station building, urban bus routes A, 4, 5, 6 and 7 stop here as well as suburban services to Trento, Riva del Garda and Ala.

References

^ Alessandro Tuzza; et al. "Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926" [Chronological overview of the features of the railways opened between 1839 and 31 December 1926]. www.trenidicarta.it (in Italian). Alessandro Tuzza. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
^ "Il bilancio 2008 scomette sulla qualità della città" [The 2008 budget bets on the quality of the city]. Comune di Rovereto website (in Italian). Comune di Rovereto. 22 November 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
^ "Flussi Annui nelle 103 Stazioni" [Annual flows at the 103 stations]. www.centostazioni.it (in Italian). Centostazioni. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.

External links

Media related to Rovereto railway station at Wikimedia Commons

Description and pictures of Rovereto railway station (in Italian)

[trenidicarta.it-1] Alessandro Tuzza; et al. "Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926" [Chronological overview of the features of the railways opened between 1839 and 31 December 1926]. www.trenidicarta.it (in Italian). Alessandro Tuzza. Retrieved 26 November 2010.

[2] "Il bilancio 2008 scomette sulla qualità della città" [The 2008 budget bets on the quality of the city]. Comune di Rovereto website (in Italian). Comune di Rovereto. 22 November 2007. Retrieved 6 December 2010.

[3] "Flussi Annui nelle 103 Stazioni" [Annual flows at the 103 stations]. www.centostazioni.it (in Italian). Centostazioni. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.

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