Castelvetrano train station
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 Castelvetrano, track side, view: northwest
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 (formerly 5) |
| IBNR | 8300295 |
| opening | July 10, 1880 |
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| Architectural style | traditional-functional |
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| City / municipality | Castelvetrano |
| Free community consortium | Free Municipal Consortium Trapani |
| region | Sicily |
| Country | Italy |
| Coordinates | 37 ° 41 '1 " N , 12 ° 47' 56" E |
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| List of train stations in Italy | |
The Castelvetrano station is now a through station on the Palermo – Trapani railway line in the West Sicilian Free Municipal Consortium Trapani . Until 1986 there was also the Castelvetrano – Porto Empedocle railway along the southwest coast and a second connection to Palermo with the Castelvetrano – San Carlo – Burgio railway, which required a three- rail track in the area of the station due to its narrower gauge of 950 millimeters .
The elongated structure lies almost in a north-south direction on the slope and separates the city in the west with the railway systems and lower-lying peripheral buildings in the east.
The five-axis, not very representative central building, like the southern extension, is two-storey and plastered. The design corresponds to many functional buildings in southern Italy with a flat hipped roof and floor-to-ceiling windows on the upper floor. To the north is a one-story functional building for the railway industry. As a separate building there is a gable roof- covered, eaves-standing goods shed further north . Only the house platform is covered, the island platforms can only be reached with a transition route and not by overpass or underpass.
To the south of the station building there is only one water tower, all other railway engineering structures are located along the northward track. Castelvetrano was an important transit station in which the maintenance of the infrastructure and refueling of the locomotives was carried out. As a result of the loss of the separating function and the predominantly continuous trains, these supply functions have largely been lost. Some trains coming from Trapani end in Castelvetrano.
In front of the building is the Piazza Amendola, a small, park-like square with old trees and a fountain, as well as the bus stops.
