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Trieste Centrale railway station (IATA: TXB) (Italian: Stazione ferroviaria di Trieste Centrale; formerly German: Triest Südbahnhof) is the main station serving the city and municipality of Trieste, in the autonomous region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northeastern Italy.
The original Italian ETR 200 trainset of the speed world record (203 km/h or 126 mph) in 1938, now preserved as historical train, was re-numbered ETR 232 in the 1960s FS' Frecciarossa 1000 high speed train at Milano Centrale railway station, with a maximum speed of 400 km/h (249 mph), [17] is one of the fastest trains in Europe.
Trieste Airport (Italian: Stazione di Trieste Airport) is a railway station serving Trieste Airport, located in Ronchi dei Legionari, in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, northern Italy. The station opened on 19 March 2018 and is located on the Venice–Trieste railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.
High-speed service was introduced on the Rome-Milan line in 1988–89 with the ETR 450 Pendolino train, with a top speed of 250 km/h (160 mph) and cutting travel times from about 5 hours to 4. [7] The prototype train ETR X 500 was the first Italian train to reach 300 km/h (190 mph) on the Direttissima on 25 May 1989. [7]
Wien Südbahnhof c. 1875 Trieste Centrale railway station, opened in 1857. 1829: Austrian railway pioneer Franz Xaver Riepl proposed a railway connection from Vienna to the Adriatic Sea, bypassing the Eastern Alps and running via Bruck an der Leitha, Magyaróvár and Szombathely through the west edge of Hungary, and then via Maribor and Ljubljana to Trieste.
The Udine–Trieste railway is an Italian state railway line that connects Udine and Trieste running through the central and eastern part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The whole line is double track and electrified at 3000 Volts DC .
In the period between the beginning of 1700 and 1850, Trieste was mainly an emporium and was given the status of Free Port by Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor in 1719. In 1740, when Empress Maria Theresa of Austria took power, one of the first measures she adopted was to extend the borders of the Free Port area to the periphery of the town, thereby merging the emporium, the port, the new city ...
The Spielfeld–Trieste railway is a double-track, electrified main line in parts of Austria, Slovenia and Italy. It was built as a section of the Austrian Southern Railway (österreichische Südbahn Vienna–Trieste) by the state-owned k.k. Südliche Staatsbahn (Southern Railway) and from 1858 onward operated for decades by the Austrian Southern Railway Company (Südbahngesellschaft), a large ...