Carrara-Avenza railway station explained

Carrara-Avenza
Native Name Lang:it
Address:Carrara, Avenza, via Petacchi
Borough:Carrara, Massa and Carrara, Tuscany
Country:Italy
Map Type:Tuscany#Italy
Map Dot Label:Carrara-Avenza
Apuania Carrara (1939-1949)
Avenza (1863-1925)
Coordinates:44.0511°N 10.0628°W
Line:Genova-Pisa railway
Private Marble Railway of Carrara (suppressed)
Avenza-Carrara railway (suppressed)
Industrial junctions of Carrara
Train Operators:Trenitalia
Platform:2 since 2012
13 until the 80
Rebuilt:1960
1980
Electrified:In 1926 with three-phase system. Converted to continuous electric current system on
Owned:RFI
Classification:Silver

Carrara-Avenza railway station, also known simply as Carrara or Avenza, is a railway station of the city of Carrara, Italy. It is located on the Genova-Pisa line. It is the only station serving the Tuscan city, after the closure of Carrara San Martino in 1969.

History

The station was opened on December 26, 1862, with the name of "Avenza",[1] [2] as part of the railway section between Sarzana and Massa.[3]

On September 10, 1866, the station became a branch point of a short connection with Carrara (Carrara San Martino Station) of 4.5 km. In 1876 the Private Marble Railway of Carrara was opened so 6 more platforms were installed and available to the marble traffic.

On May 20, 1915, in the underpass road Viale XX Settembre, in the immediate vicinity of the station, began to pass convoys of the electric tramway for the connection to the fraction of Marina: 6.3 km long the tramway was electrified at direct voltage of 600 V, the line had the standard gauge of 1,445 mm. The tram service was definitively suppressed[4] in 1955 for the installation of a trolleybus.

In 1939 the station, then called "Carrara-Avenza," took on the new name of "Apuania Carrara" with the institution of the municipality of Apuania;[5] the previous name was restored in the 1949, with the abolition of the former municipality first mentioned in 1946.[6]

The traffic coming from the marble railway definitively ceased with its suppression, which occurred on May 15, 1964. The elimination of the branch with Carrara San Martino dates back to February 28, 1969.[7] In June 2012 the platforms used for the movement of marble goods were removed.

With the decline of freight traffic, RFI decided the transformation from station to halt, starting December 2012.[8]

Overview

The station has two platforms for passenger transport. Until June 2012 it had a third that was used for trains from Firenze Santa Maria Novella. With this third there were also another six for freight trains that, among other things, since 1964 doesn't stop anymore at the station.

The two shelters that it owns are connected by an underpass.

Passenger building

The passenger building is composed of a single body with rectangular plan. To the east of PB, there is a small garden of the 20th century characterized by the presence of trees such as pines and firs and a large palm that is there from the opening of the station, there are also two fountains, a little to drink and a big. Both do not work anymore.

Railway view

All the tracks 3-4-6 and the separated goods track were removed in June 2012.

Services

The station, that in 2007 was frequented by an average of 1,000 people a day,[9] can offer services such as:

See also

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Quando Avenza volle il Piemonte, got from La Nazione, 28 Giugno 1995. Retrieved February 2014.
  2. https://books.google.com/books?id=BQl9iH8Lki4C&dq=stazione+di+avenza&pg=PA239 Atti organici della Società anonima delle strade ferrate romane, pp. 220 and following
  3. News: Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926 . Chronological overview of the features of railway opened to the exercise from 1839 to December 31, 1926. Alessandro Tuzza. 1927. 30 June 2009 . it . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230414074541/http://www.trenidicarta.it/aperture.html . 2023-04-14.
  4. Annalisa Giovani, Stefano Maggi, Muoversi in Toscana. Ferrovie e trasporti dal Granducato alla Regione, op. cit.
  5. Service order n. 61 of the 1939
  6. Service order n. 72 of the 1949
  7. FENIT 1946–1996, Rome, FENIT, 1996. No ISBN
  8. Web site: RFI Service order 015/2012 of the 21 december 2012. . 20 December 2016 . 20 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220064956/https://donet.rfi.it/RFIPlatform/viewDocumentWebById.do?docId=%7BB835D592-E9B0-4E6A-85BF-F2F53CE1CB4A%7D&docType=CC . live .
  9. 2008 statistics RFI database