Pavia railway station ( it, Stazione di Pavia) serves the city and ''

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'' of

Pavia Pavia (, , , ; la, Ticinum; Medieval Latin: ) is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy in northern Italy, south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It has a population of c. 73,086. The city was the capit ...

, in the

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. Opened in 1862, it forms part of the Genoa–Milan railway, and is also a terminus of four secondary railways, linking Pavia with

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and Stradella. The station is currently managed by

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(RFI). However, the commercial area of the passenger building is managed by

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. 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

Pavia railway station is situated at Piazzale della Stazione, a short distance to the west of the city centre.

History

The station was opened on 10 May 1862, upon the simultaneous completion of two sections of railway line. They were the

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–Pavia section of what was to become the Treviglio–Pavia–Voghera railway, and the final section of the Pavia–Alessandria railway. The opening of these two sections of line made it possible for the first time to travel by train between Milan and

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. Recent renovation work at the station was performed mainly on the passenger building. The lobby was made more spacious and comfortable by the removal of the walls separating the waiting room and the lobby. That space is now equipped with seats, local trades and other services. The lighting was also replaced, and appropriate technical alterations were made to comply with legal requirements.

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s were removed, the public conveniences were restructured, and new elevators were installed at the underpass and on the platforms. Routine maintenance was also carried out on the plastering, and windows and canopies were restored.

Features

The passenger building consists of three parts: the central one is on two levels, and is home to the majority of services for passengers. At ground level, it has five arches that provide access to the building, and on top of its facade at first floor level is an analogue

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. The other two parts of the building have a structure very similar to one another. They extend symmetrically from the central body and have six arches. These two parts house the local technical and commercial spaces. The station once had a

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with an adjoining

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, but the former has been dismantled and the latter converted for use as a storage facility. The architecture of that facility is very similar to that of other Italian railway stations. The station yard has five tracks, all equipped with a platform sheltered by a canopy and connected with the other platforms by an underpass. In detail: *Bay platform: used by trains to and from Codogno *Track 1: deviates from the main rail path through the station, and is used for the overtaking of trains with odd numbers or for trains terminating in Pavia. *Track 2: one of the two main paths through the station, and is used by trains with odd numbers. *Track 3: the other main path, is for stops by trains with even numbers. *Track 4: another deviating path, is used for overtaking of trains with even numbers or trains that have Pavia as the terminus station. *Track 5: this track is also on a deviating path, and is used sporadically. There are two other tracks, not served by platforms, which are used for goods trains, or for short term storage of machinery involved in line maintenance.

Train services

The station has about 8.7 million passenger movements each year. Passenger services are operated exclusively by Trenitalia on behalf of the

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. The trains are regional services, Eurostar City and

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trains. Their main destinations are

Milano Centrale Milano Centrale ( it, Stazione Milano Centrale) is the main railway station of the city of Milan, Italy, and is the largest railway station in Europe by volume. The station is a terminus and located at the northern end of central Milan. It was o ...

Codogno Codogno (; Lodigiano: ) is a town and ''comune'' of 15,868 inhabitants in the province of Lodi, Lombardy, northern Italy. It is the main center of the plain known as Basso Lodigiano, which has about 90,000 inhabitants. It received the honorary tit ...

and

. The station is served by the following service(s): *EuroCity services (''

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'') Marseille - Cannes - Nice - Monaco - Ventimiglia - Genoa - Milan

References

External links

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