Rieti railway station
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Rieti, province of Rieti, Lazio
Italy
Rieti | |||||
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_01.jpg) Passengers building as seen from outside the station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini Rieti, province of Rieti, Lazio Italy | ||||
| Coordinates | 42°24′21″N 12°51′45″E / 42.4058°N 12.8626°E | ||||
| Owned by | Rete Ferroviaria Italiana | ||||
| Operated by | Ferrovia Centrale Umbra | ||||
| Line | Terni–Sulmona | ||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Classification | Silver | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 30 October 1883 | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2007 | 491 per day[1] | ||||
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Rieti railway station (Italian: Stazione di Rieti) serves the city and comune of Rieti, in the region of Lazio, central Italy. Opened in 1883, it is part of the Terni–Sulmona railway.
Rieti railway station is located at the center of the city, just outside the medieval walls that enclose the historic city centre on its north side, and south of modern residential neighborhoods Regina Pacis, Madonna del cuore and Micioccoli.
History
The station started operating on 30 October 1883, when the Rocca di Corno-Terni part of the Terni–Sulmona railway was opened. Upon construction, a 200 metres stretch of the nearby medieval walls were demolished, in order to create a new, large passage in the walls, so that arriving passenger could easily access the city centre.
On 25 January 1944 the station was severely damaged in a bombing by USAF Flying Fortress, that also caused the death of the station master Antonio Uncini. Shortly after the building was reconstructed and the line restarted operations in 1946.
In 2009 the former freight area, no longer used, was converted in a bus terminal and depot.[2]
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