Rail transport Trieste
railways came trieste, due importance of port , need transport people , goods inland. first railroad line reach trieste südbahn, launched austrian government in 1857. railway stretches 1,400 km (870 mi) lviv, ukraine, via ljubljana, slovenia; sopron, hungary; vienna, austria; , kraków, poland, crossing backbone of alps mountains through semmering pass near graz. approaches trieste through village of villa opicina, few kilometres big city on 300 metres (984 feet) higher in elevation. due this, line takes 32 kilometres (20 miles) detour north, gradually descending before terminating @ trieste centrale railway station.
in 1887, imperial royal austrian state railways (german: kaiserlich-königliche österreichische staatsbahnen) opened new railway line, trieste–hrpelje railway (german: hrpelje-bahn), new port of trieste hrpelje-kozina, on istrian railway. intended function of new line reduce austrian empire s dependence on südbahn network. opening gave trieste second station south of original one, named trieste sant andrea (german: triest sankt andrea). 2 stations connected railway line in initial plans had interim solution: rive railway (german: rive-bahn), survived until 1981, when replaced galleria di circonvallazione, 5.7-kilometre (3.5 mi) railway tunnel route east of city.
with opening of transalpina railway vienna, austria via jesenice , nova gorica in 1906, st andrea station replaced new, more capacious, facility, named trieste stazione dello stato (german: triest staatsbahnhof), later trieste campo marzio -now railway museum-, , original station came identified trieste stazione della meridionale or trieste meridionale (german: triest südbahnhof). railway approached trieste via villa opicina, took rather shorter loop southwards towards sea front. freight services dock area include container services northern italy , budapest, hungary, rolling highway services salzburg, austria , frankfurt, germany.
passenger rail service trieste consists of trains , venice, connecting there high-speed trains rome , milan @ mestre. there direct trains verona, turin, milan, rome, florence, naples , bologna. these trains reach trieste central station bypassing gulf of trieste, connecting südbahn s northern loop. passenger trains run between villa opicina , ljubljana.
trieste in remote future connected italian tav railway network: 300-kilometre-per-hour (190 mph) fast train route possibly connect trieste venice. however, project not completed earlier 2020.
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