Ascoli Piceno railway station ( it, Stazione di Ascoli Piceno) serves the town and ''

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'' of

Ascoli Piceno Ascoli Piceno (; la, Asculum; dialetto ascolano: Ascule) is a town and ''comune'' in the Marche region of Italy, capital of the province of the same name. Its population is around 46,000 but the urban area of the city has more than 93,000. Geo ...

, in the

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Marche Marche ( , ) is one of the twenty regions of Italy. In English, the region is sometimes referred to as The Marches ( ). The region is located in the central area of the country, bordered by Emilia-Romagna and the republic of San Marino to the ...

, central Italy. Opened in 1886, it is the southwestern terminus of the San Benedetto del Tronto–Ascoli Piceno railway, a branch of the

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. The station is managed by

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(RFI). The commercial area of the passenger building is managed by Centostazioni. 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.

Location

Ascoli Piceno railway station is situated at Piazza della Stazione, to the east of the town centre.

History

The station was opened on 1 May 1886, together with the rest of the San Benedetto del Tronto–Ascoli Piceno railway. The original operator of the station was the '' Società per le Strade Ferrate Meridionali'' (SFM) ( en, Company for the Southern Railways), which operated the whole of the Ascoli Piceno branch as part of the ''

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'' ( en, Adriatic Network). The SFM continued to operate the branch until the nationalization of the Italian railways in 1905.

Features

Passenger Building

Ascoli Piceno's passenger building is a two-storey structure, comprising three sections. It is made of brick and painted brown. The central section of the building has six

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ed windows topped by

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es, and its first floor windows are decorated with

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s. The ground floor of that section houses services for passengers, but the first floor is not accessible to the public. Extending laterally from the central section are two symmetrical single-storey wings.

Station yard

The station yard consists of three tracks dedicated to passenger transport. In detail: *Track 1: is a siding track. *Track 2: lines up directly with the running track. *Track 3: is another siding track. The tracks are all passing tracks, because although the station is the terminal, each track ends about outside the station. All tracks have a platform, and are connected by a concrete walkway. Only one track is covered by a canopy, which is made of wrought iron. The station yard is also equipped with a group of sidings dedicated to the storage of vehicles not in service. These sidings are connected with the platforms by a bridge. There is a locomotive shed, and a

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of a design typical to Italian railway stations. The former

goods yard A goods station (also known as a goods yard or goods depot) or freight station is, in the widest sense, a railway station where, either exclusively or predominantly, goods (or freight), such as merchandise, parcels, and manufactured items, are lo ...

has been dismantled, and the goods shed is disused. From the station yard, a number of spur lines extend to nearby

industrial siding A siding, in rail terminology, is a low-speed track section distinct from a running line or through route such as a main line, branch line, or spur. It may connect to through track or to other sidings at either end. Sidings often have lighter ...

s. Some of these spur lines are made partially of tramway tracks, at points where the line previously intersected with

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covered roadway.

Train movements

Only regional trains stop at the station. Their main origins and destinations are

San Benedetto del Tronto San Benedetto del Tronto is a city and ''comune'' in Marche, Italy. Part of an urban area with 100,000 inhabitants, it is one of the most densely populated areas along the Adriatic Sea coast. It is the most populated city in Province of Ascoli P ...

, Civitanova Marche and

Ancona Ancona (, also , ) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region in central Italy, with a population of around 101,997 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region. The city is located northeast of Rome, on the Adriatic S ...

Interchange

In the square in front of the passenger building is a bus terminal for urban and suburban buses. The operator of the bus service is START.

References

External links

Description and pictures of the station by the group Fermodellistico Pescara

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Railway stations in the Marche Railway stations opened in 1886