Terontola-Cortona railway station (''Stazione di Terontola-Cortona'') is the main station of

Cortona Cortona (, ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic centre of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo. Toponymy Cortona is derived from Latin Cortōna, and from Etruscan 𐌂𐌖𐌓� ...

, Italy, located in the hamlet of Terontola. It is on the

Florence–Rome railway The Florence–Rome railway is part of the traditional main north–south trunk line of the Italian railway network. The line is referred to by Ferrovie dello Stato (the State Railways) as the ''Linea Lenta'' (meaning "slow line", abbreviated ''L ...

and the line to Foligno (which passes through ) branches off from the station.

History

Terontola station was not opened with the other stations of the line in 1866. In fact, the

did not exist in it current form: the connection between Rome and Florence did not pass through

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and

Chiusi Chiusi (Etruscan: ''Clevsin''; Umbrian: ''Camars''; Ancient Greek: ''Klysion'', ''Κλύσιον''; Latin: ''Clusium'') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy. History Clusium (''Clevsin'' in Etruscan) was one of t ...

, but ran from

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 ...

through

Terni Terni ( , ; lat, Interamna (Nahars)) is a city in the southern portion of the region of Umbria in central Italy. It is near the border with Lazio. The city is the capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is ...

Foligno Foligno (; Southern Umbrian: ''Fuligno'') is an ancient town of Italy in the province of Perugia in east central Umbria, on the Topino river where it leaves the Apennines and enters the wide plain of the Clitunno river system. It is located so ...

and

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, along a route that is now divided into two lines: the Foligno–Terontola railway and part of the

Rome–Ancona railway The Rome–Ancona railway (or Ancona–Orte railway) is a rail line in central Italy connecting the city of Ancona with Orte, and therefore with the capital city, Rome. The line crosses the Apennine Mountains from the Adriatic Sea to the Tyrrh ...

. The line between Cortona (now Camucia-Cortona) and

was opened on 11 November 1875. It was decided to build a station at the junction between the two lines because the Cortona station was too far away. The new Terontola station, opened together with the new line to Chiusi, constituted a major junction on the main line of the Italian railway system. In 1939 it was renamed from "Terontola" to "Cortona-Terontola", and in 1948 it became "Terontola". It was later given its current name.

Buildings and infrastructure

The station is equipped with a two-level passenger building. On the lower floor there is a ticket office, with ticket machines and a ticket counter, a waiting room, an office of the

railway police Railroad police or railway police are people responsible for the protection of railroad (or railway) properties, facilities, revenue, equipment (train cars and locomotives), and personnel, as well as carried passengers and cargo. Railroad police ...

and a bar, while the upper floor is used by Trenitalia. There is also two freight loading areas; * the first has a warehouse with an attached loading platform; two deadend sidings have been dismantled. * the second has a large square and two other deadend sidings where work wagons are usually stabled for maintenance. The station also has several other service buildings including an office for train control, where various ''Apparato Centrale Elettrico a Itinerari'' (an Italian system for controlling train movements at stations) desks are located. There are five through tracks for passenger services: there are three platforms, two of which have a brick shelter, while the central one has an iron shelter. The platforms are connected via an underpass. There are also other tracks without a platform that are used to stable freight wagons.

Rail services

Although traffic significantly decreased after the opening of the

Florence–Rome high-speed railway The Florence–Rome high-speed railway line is a link in the Italian high-speed rail network. It is known as the ferrovia direttissima Firenze-Roma in Italian—meaning "most direct Florence–Rome railway" (abbreviated DD); this name reflects t ...

, the number of passengers and trains is always at a high level, increased by interchange between the two lines. All regional services and some intercity services stop at the station.

Station services

The station is managed by RFI, which classified it in 2008 in the ''silver'' category. It has: * Aiga ticketpurchase inv

ticket counter * Feature ticket office inv 2

ticket machines * Aiga waitingroom inv

waiting room. * Aiga immigration inv

station of the railway police * Aiga toilets inv

toilets *

bar

Interchange

''Etruria Mobilità'' buses leave from the square in front of the station for the centre of Cortona. There is also a parking area for cars and bicycles. * Aiga bus inv

bus station * Aiga_taxi_inv

taxi rank.

References

Footnotes

Sources

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Terontola-Cortona railway station Railway stations in Tuscany Railway stations opened in 1875 Buildings and structures in Cortona