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Piazza al Serchio railway station

Piazza al Serchio railway station

Railway station in Tuscany, Italy

Piazza al Serchio railway station (Italian: Stazione di Piazza al Serchio) is a railway station located in the Tuscany region of central Italy serving the comune of Piazza al Serchio. The station is located in the lower part of the village at an altitude of just under 500 m. It was opened on 21 April 1940.[1]

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The station forms part of the Lucca–Aulla railway and is served exclusively by regional trains operated by Trenitalia, whilst the station itself is managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), both of which are subsidiaries of Italy's state-owned rail company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS).[2]

Locomotive FS 940 002 as a monument

In memory of the steam locomotives that formerly operated on the Lucca–Aulla railway, an FS Class 940 locomotive is preserved at the station as a monument. A 15 m turntable that was used to rotate the steam locomotives is also still visible at the site.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Ufficio Centrale di Statistica delle Ferrovie dello Stato (1927). Alessandro Tuzza (ed.). Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926 (in Italian). Rome, Italy.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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    Salento, Angelo; Pesare, Giuseppe (4 July 2015). From Liberalisation to Appropriation: The Trajectory of Italian Railways. London: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
  3. [3]
    Traggiai, Johnny. "Piazza al Serchio Station 57+386" (in Italian). Retrieved 2 September 2023.

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