Fiumicino Airport Railway Station
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Fiumicino Aeroporto railway station, or Fiumicino Airport railway station ( it, Stazione di Fiumicino Aeroporto), is sited within the
Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport Leonardo is a masculine given name, the Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese equivalent of the English, German, and Dutch name, Leonard. People Notable people with the name include: * Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian Renaissance scientist ...
( it, Aeroporto Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino) (
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: FCO) in
Fiumicino Fiumicino () is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy, with a population of 80,500 (2019). It is known for being the site of Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport, the busiest airport in Italy and the eleventh-bu ...
, Lazio,
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. Opened in 1990, the station is the southwestern terminus of the
Rome–Fiumicino railway The Rome–Fiumicino railway is an urban railway line in Rome. History The railway link between Rome and Fiumicino was officially opened on 6 May 1878, when a branch of the Livorno–Rome railway (also called the ''ferrovia Tirrenica''—"Tyrrhen ...
. The airport and station are also known as Rome-Fiumicino Airport ( it, Aeroporto di Roma-Fiumicino), because the airport is the main airport for
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. The station is managed by
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) is the Italian railway infrastructure manager, subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), a state-owned holding company. RFI is the owner of Italy's railway network, it provides signalling, maintenance and other ser ...
(RFI). Train services are operated by
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. Each company is a subsidiary of
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(FS), Italy's state-owned rail company. RFI classifies the station as category "Gold".


Location

Fiumicino Aeroporto railway station is situated at Via Generale Felice Santini 11–14, directly opposite Terminal 1.


Features

The station has a passenger building and train hall that houses the platforms and ticket machines. It is equipped with three platforms, all of them for passenger service.


Train movements

The
Leonardo Express The Leonardo Express is an airport rail service linking the center of Rome with its largest airport, Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport, in the region of Lazio, central Italy. The service is operated by Trenitalia, and takes 32 minutes to trav ...
is a first-class only non-stop service linking Fiumicino Aeroporto with
Roma Termini railway station Roma Termini (in Italian, ''Stazione Termini'') is the main railway station of Rome, Italy. It is named after the district of the same name, which in turn took its name from ancient Baths of Diocletian (in Latin, ''thermae''), which ...
in approximately 30 minutes. It operates every 15 minutes from early morning until late evening. Frequent
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link Fiumicino Aeroporto with destinations in Latium north of Rome, including
Fara Sabina Fara in Sabina, also spelled Fara Sabina, is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Rieti in the Italian region Lazio, located about northeast of Rome and about southwest of Rieti. History The area was inhabited in prehistoric times, as ...
,
Poggio Mirteto Poggio Mirteto is a ''comune'' (municipality) and former Catholic bishopric in Sabina in the Central Italian region Lazio (Latium). Administratively Poggio Mirteto is in the province of Rieti (formerly part of the province of Perugia) and geogra ...
and
Orte Orte is a town, ''comune'', former Catholic bishopric and Latin titular see in the province of Viterbo, in the central Italian region of Lazio, located about north of Rome and about east of Viterbo. Geography Orte is situated in the Tiber vall ...
(terminus station for this line). The station is also the terminus of the Ferrovie regionali del Lazio FR1 commuter service from Orte. These trains stop at all the stations along the way, including important Roman Stations as Roma Trastevere,
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and Roma Tiburtina. While from last two it is possible to commute to the Linea B subway line, in Roma Trastevere the Tram 8 (with one terminus at
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) provides a fast connection with
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and the heart of the city center. During business hours on workdays a train every 15 minutes arrives to Fara Sabina: of these, a train every 30 minutes reaches Poggio Mirteto, and from this station a train every hour arrives to Orte. The station is also served by direct
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and
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services to destinations such as
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,
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and
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See also

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FL1 (Lazio regional railways) The FL1 (until 2012 FR1) is a regional rail route forming part of the Lazio regional railways network ( it, ferrovie regionali del Lazio), which is operated by Trenitalia, and converges on the city of Rome, Italy. The route operates over the in ...
*
History of rail transport in Italy History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...
*
List of railway stations in Lazio This is the list of the railway stations in Lazio owned by: * Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, a branch of the Italian state company Ferrovie dello Stato; * ATAC SpA. RFI stations ATAC stations See also *Railway stations in Italy *Ferrovie dell ...
*
Rail transport in Italy The Italian railway system is one of the most important parts of the infrastructure of Italy, with a total length of of which active lines are 16,723 km. The network has recently grown with the construction of the new high-speed rail netw ...
*
Railway stations in Italy Most railway stations in Italy are maintained and operated by RFI, a subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Group. A minor part of them are operated by private and regional companies, conceded by the state. See also: :it:Ferrovie in concessione ...


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