Belluno railway station

Location
	Belluno Location in Veneto Belluno Location in Northern Italy Belluno Location in Italy

Belluno
Belluno
	View of the passenger building.
General information
Location	Piazzale della Stazione; 32100 Belluno; Belluno, Belluno, Veneto; Italy
Coordinates	46°08′30″N 12°12′35″E / 46.14167°N 12.20972°E
Owned by	Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Operated by	Centostazioni
Line(s)	Calalzo–Padua
Platforms	4
Train operators	Trenitalia
Connections	Urban (DolomitiBus) and suburban buses;
Construction
Architect	Roberto Narducci
History
Opened	1912; 112 years ago
Location
Location
	Belluno Location in Veneto Belluno Location in Northern Italy Belluno Location in Italy

Belluno railway station (Italian: Stazione di Belluno) serves the town and comune of Belluno, in the Veneto region, northeastern Italy. Opened in 1912, it forms part of the Calalzo–Padua railway.

The station is currently owned by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). The commercial area of the passenger building is managed by Centostazioni. Train services to and from the station are regional trains operated by Trenitalia. Each of these companies is a subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.

History

The first Belluno railway station, located in Piazza Cesare Battisti, was opened on 11 November 1886, on completion of the Belluno-Cornuda portion of the historical line Belluno–Montebelluna–Treviso.^[1]

The current station was opened in 1912, upon the activation of the first leg (up to Longarone) of the Calalzo–Padua railway. The passenger building, which was a project of the architect Roberto Narducci, was constructed in 1928.

Features

There are four tracks running through the station. Three of them are equipped with platforms. Additionally, the station has three sidings used to store trains.

Train services

The station has about one million passenger movements each year.^[2]

The station is served by the following services:

Regional services (Treno regionale) Belluno - Conegliano - Venezia S. Lucia
Regional services (Treno regionale) Montebelluna - Belluno
Regional services (Treno regionale) Belluno - Ponte nelle Alpi-Polpet - Calalzo-Pieve di Cadore-Cortina
Regional services (Treno regionale) Vicenza - Padua - Castelfranco Veneto - Montebelluna - Belluno - Ponte nelle Alpi-Polpet - Calalzo-Pieve di Cadore-Cortina

Preceding station	Trenitalia	Following station
Terminus	Treno regionale	Ponte nelle Alpi-Polpet toward Venezia S. Lucia
Sedico-Bribano toward Montebelluna	Treno regionale	Terminus
Terminus	Treno regionale	Ponte nelle Alpi-Polpet toward Calalzo-Pieve di Cadore-Cortina
Feltre toward Vinceza	Treno regionale	Ponte nelle Alpi-Polpet toward Calalzo-Pieve di Cadore-Cortina

Gallery

The station platforms and yard

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]. Trenidicarta.it (in Italian). Alessandro Tuzza. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
^ "Flussi Annui nelle 103 Stazioni" [Annual flows at the 103 stations]. Centostazioni website (in Italian). Centostazioni. Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.

External links

Media related to Belluno train station at Wikimedia Commons

[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]. Trenidicarta.it (in Italian). Alessandro Tuzza. Retrieved 26 November 2010.

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

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