Riomaggiore railway station (''Stazione di Riomaggiore'') is located on the

Genoa–Pisa railway The Genoa–Pisa railway is one of the trunk lines of the rail transport in Italy, Italian railway network. It runs along the Ligurian coast from Genoa to Pisa through the Italian Riviera, Riviera di Levante and the Versilia. It passes through the ...

, Italy. It serves

Riomaggiore Riomaggiore ( lij, Rimazzô, locally ) is a village and commune in the province of La Spezia, situated in a small valley in the Liguria region of Italy. It is the first of the Cinque Terre one meets when travelling north from La Spezia. Th ...

, which is one of the five towns of the

Cinque Terre The Cinque Terre (; lij, Çinque Tære, meaning "Five Lands") is a coastal area within Liguria, in the northwest of Italy. It lies in the west of La Spezia Province, and comprises five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, ...

History

The station was inaugurated on 24 October 1874, at the same time as the – line. Double track between and Riomaggiore was opened in 1920 and extended on 14 November 1933 as far as the Gaggiola tunnel and between Riomaggiore and Corniglia on 31 May 1959. Associated work in the station area included the construction of the portal of the Batternara-Riofinale tunnel with a polycentric arch, which required changes to the adjacent areas, and the construction of a new 2-storey passenger building, a goods warehouse with a loading dock and the current underpass. The station was reclassified as a halt on 14 December 2003. In June and July 2011, the station was also served by the ''Treni del Mare'' ("trains of the sea") managed by the private company

Arenaways Arenaways was an open-access railway operator in Italy. It began passenger operations between Milan and Turin in November 2010, competing with national monopoly operator Trenitalia. Arenaways was running the first private passenger-carrying rail s ...

, which became bankrupt shortly afterwards.

Buildings and infrastructure

The station has two platforms; platform 1 is used mainly by trains to

La Spezia La Spezia (, or , ; in the local Spezzino dialect) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy. La Spezia is the second largest city ...

and platform 2 by trains to

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. An enclosed pedestrian path in the tunnel, running parallel to the track, gives access to the lower part of the historic centre at the mouth of the stream that runs through it. A second pedestrian path, which connects Riomaggiore with Manarola and was built in the open when the line was built, is a well-known tourist destination and is now called the ''

Via dell'Amore La via dell'Amore or The Way of Love (Via de l'Amùu in the Ligurian language) is a pedestrian path overlooking the sea, with a length of just over one kilometer, linking the villages of Riomaggiore and Manarola, Cinque Terre, in Liguria (Italy). ...

'' ("the Way of Love""). It can normally be used for a fee, but it has been closed for some years due to a serious collapse of the rocks above.

Services

The station, which RFI manages and classified in 2008 in the ''silver'' category, has: * Aiga ticketpurchase inv

Ticket counter managed by

Cinque Terre National Park Cinque Terre National Park ( Italian: ''Parco Nazionale delle Cinque Terre'') is a protected area inducted as an Italian national park in 1999. Located in the province of La Spezia, Liguria, northern Italy, it is the smallest national park in Ital ...

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ticket machines * Aiga toilets inv

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Rail services

The station is served by

Trenitalia Trenitalia is the primary train operator in Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself owned by the Italian government, the company was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulation of rail transp ...

regional services operated under a contract with the region of

Liguria Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...

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