Latina railway station

Location
	Latina Location in Lazio Latina Location in Italy

Latina
Latina
General information
Location	Piazzale Lelia Caetani, Latina Scalo; 04013 Latina LT; Latina, Latina, Lazio; Italy
Coordinates	41°32′17.12″N 12°56′45.8″E / 41.5380889°N 12.946056°E
Operated by	Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Line(s)	Rome-Latina-Formia-Naples ; Roma Termini-Minturno-Scauri
Distance	61.018 km (37.915 mi); from Roma Termini
Platforms	2 (3 tracks)
Train operators	Trenitalia
Connections	Urban and suburban buses;
Other information
Classification	Silver
History
Opened	17 July 1922; 102 years ago
Location
Location
	Latina Location in Lazio Latina Location in Italy

Latina is the main railway station of the Italian city of Latina, in the region of Lazio. It is owned by the Ferrovie dello Stato, the national rail company of Italy, and is an important train station of its region.

Geography

The station is located in Latina Scalo,^[1] a suburb in the northern part of Latina. It is the most distant station from the city centre of an Italian seat of province: due to this, 9 km, local and regional authorities have presented several projects to build a rail, or a light rail, from it to an eventual "Latina Città" (i.e. Latina City) station.^[2]^[3]

History

The station was inaugurated on July 17, 1922, at the opening of the new direct line from Rome to Naples, via Formia. In the early years of service, when the city of Latina didn't exist, it was a simple train stop serving some little villages close to the swamps composing the environment of the Pontine Marshes. In 1932, during fascism and after the foundation of the actual city, the new station of Littoria (original name of Latina, named after the fascio littorio) was enlarged and a new building projected by the architect Angiolo Mazzoni. During this period some diesel multiple unit (DMU) trains were inaugurated in a regional Rome to Littoria service, colloquially named Littorine (plural) and Littorina (singular) after the city. In Italy this colloquial name survives; it is generally used to identify the DMU trains.^[4] After the renaming of the city in 1946 also the station took the actual name.

Train services

The station is served by the following services (incomplete):

Intercity services Rome - Naples - Salerno - Lamezia Terme - Messina - Palermo
Intercity services Rome - Naples - Salerno - Lamezia Terme - Messina - Siracusa
Intercity services Rome - Naples - Salerno - Lamezia Terme - Reggio di Calabria
Intercity services Rome - Naples - Salerno - Taranto
Intercity services Turin - Genoa - La Spezia - Pisa - Livorno - Rome - Naples - Salerno
Night train (Intercity Notte) Rome - Naples - Messina - Siracusa
Night train (Intercity Notte) Turin - Genoa - La Spezia - Pisa - Livorno - Rome - Naples - Salerno
Regional services (Treno Regionale) Rome - Pomezia - Latina - Formia - Minturno - Naples

Preceding station	Trenitalia	Following station
Roma Termini Terminus	InterCity	Formia-Gaeta toward Palermo Centrale
Roma Termini Terminus	InterCity	Formia-Gaeta toward Siracusa
Roma Termini Terminus	InterCity	Formia-Gaeta toward Reggio di Calabria Centrale
Roma Termini Terminus	InterCity	Formia-Gaeta toward Taranto
Roma Termini toward Torino Porta Nuova	InterCity	Formia-Gaeta toward Salerno
Roma Termini Terminus	Intercity Notte	Formia-Gaeta toward Siracusa
Roma Ostiense toward Torino Porta Nuova	Intercity Notte	Formia-Gaeta toward Salerno
Cisterna di Latina toward Roma Termini	Treno regionale	Sezze Romano toward Napoli Centrale

Preceding station	Lazio regional railways			Following station
Cisterna di Latina towards Roma Termini		FL7		Sezze Romano towards Minturno-Scauri

Structure and transport

Latina station counts a large one-floor building, located close to the freight shed. It counts 4 tracks for passenger service and 5 terminal tracks, in the northern side, for goods wagons.

The station is electrified and served by regional trains (mainly to Rome, Naples, Formia, and Terracina) and also by the suburban Roman line FR7 part of the Lazio regional railways. Latina has no direct links to some other city stations of its region (as Frosinone, Viterbo, Rieti or Cassino) and is linked to Civitavecchia only with InterCity services.

Located onto one of the principal Italian rail lines, the Rome-Latina-Formia-Naples, it is served for long-distance transport by several InterCity and Express trains to Rome, Turin, Milan, Naples, Venice, Palermo, Syracuse, Reggio Calabria and Bolzano, linking it also with Genoa, Bologna, Florence, Pisa, Verona, Catania, Messina and other cities. As it happens for Formia and Aversa, it is not served by any EuroStar high-speed train.

Notes and references

^ "Scalo" is an old form for "Stazione", an Italian word meaning station
^ (in Italian) Article on Latina24ore.it about a light rail to Lido di Latina
^ (in Italian) Document^{[permanent dead link]} about the proposal of a Translohr for Latina
^ (in Italian) See also it:Littorina

External links

Media related to Latina railway station at Wikimedia Commons

[1] "Scalo" is an old form for "Stazione", an Italian word meaning station

[2] (in Italian) Article on Latina24ore.it about a light rail to Lido di Latina

[3] (in Italian) Document^{[permanent dead link]} about the proposal of a Translohr for Latina

[4] (in Italian) See also it:Littorina

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