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

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Pordenone Pordenone (; Venetian and fur, Pordenon) is the main ''comune'' of Pordenone province of northeast Italy in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region. The name comes from Latin ''Portus Naonis'', meaning 'port on the Noncello (Latin ''Naon'') River'. ...

, in the

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. Opened in 1855, the station is located on the

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. Although it is not a

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station, it is used by a great many passengers. 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 to and from the station 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

Pordenone railway station is situated in Via Pola, at the western edge of the city centre.

History

The station became operational on , when the portion of the Venice–Udine railway between Treviso Centrale and Pordenone was opened. In the same year, the next portion of line, to Casarsa, was completed. Only in 1860 did the line reach its final destination,

Udine Udine ( , ; fur, Udin; la, Utinum) is a city and ''comune'' in north-eastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Alps (''Alpi Carniche''). Its population was 100,514 in 2012, 176,000 with t ...

Features

The station is equipped with a large passenger building that houses many services, including ticketing, a kiosk, a bar, a bank, and a Club Eurostar.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s): *High speed services (''Frecciarossa'') ''Udine - Treviso - Venice - Padua - Bologna - Florence - Rome'' *High speed services (''Frecciarossa'') ''Udine - Treviso - Venice - Padua - Verona - Milan'' *High speed services (''Railjet'') ''Vienna - Klagenfurt - Villach - Udine - Treviso - Venice'' *Night train (''Nighjet'') ''Munich - Tarvisio - Udine - Treviso - Venice'' *Night train (''EuroNight'') ''Vienna - Linz - Salzburg - Villach - Udine - Treviso - Venice'' *Night train (''Intercity Notte'') ''Trieste - Udine - Venice - Padua - Bologna - Rome'' *Express services (''Regionale Veloce'') ''Trieste - Gorizia - Udine - Treviso - Venice'' *Regional services (''Treno regionale'') ''Trieste - Gorizia - Udine - Treviso - Venice''

Passenger and train movements

The movement of passengers at the station is about 3,000,000 people per year, which means that Pordenone is the third busiest station in Friuli-Venezia Giulia in terms of numbers of passengers, after

and Trieste Centrale. Passenger traffic is heavy at all hours of the day. The station is a transit stop for all types of trains. The destinations of the

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are: Udine, Venezia Santa Lucia,

Sacile Sacile (; vec, Sathìl ; Liventina: ; Western Friulian: ) is a town and '' comune'' in the province of Pordenone, in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northeastern Italy. It is known as the "Garden of the ''Serenissima''" after the many pala ...

, Trieste Centrale and Casarsa. The station is also served by

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and night trains to Rome and

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trains to Milan. International trains operate to Vienna and Munich. Interchange with the bus is excellent: in the square outside the station are stops for urban and suburban buses. In front of the station there is a taxi stand.

References

External links

''This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at December 2010.''
{{Italian railway stations Railway stations in Friuli-Venezia Giulia Railway stations opened in 1855 Pordenone 1855 establishments in the Austrian Empire