Orvieto railway station

Orvieto station was opened with the extension of the line from Empoli and Siena ("Central Tuscan Railway") from Ficulle on 27 December 1865. This line was extended to Orte on 10 March 1874 and with the opening of the Chiusi–Terontola cutoff on 15 November 1875, the line became part of the Florence–Rome railway.[2] The route to Rome over the slow line remains unchanged.

During its first ten years the connection to Florence was over a very long route: Orvieto was in fact on the line through Siena, which is now a purely local line, is not electrified and is still partly single track. The route to Florence passed through Chiusi, Siena, Empoli with a length of 225 kilometres.[2]

View of platforms 2 and 3

View of platforms 1 and 2 towards Rome

The station has three platforms for passenger transport. The first two platforms are for normal through services while the third is used for any overtaking and for the trains that arrive and depart from Chiusi. There are also three platforms used for freight traffic, in fact the station also has a freight yard.

The platforms are connected to each other by an underpass and a lift.

The station is very close to the Orvieto North and Orvieto south links with the Florence–Rome high-speed railway. Soon after the opening of the new line, these two links were frequently used by long-distance services that stopped at Orvieto. With the increase in the number of trains on the high-speed line, the Intercity services have been relegated to the historic line in order not to congest the high-speed line.

The low terminal of the Orvieto Funicular is located across the station forecourt.

The passenger service is operated exclusively by Trenitalia, a subsidiary of the Ferrovie dello Stato. All regional services and almost all InterCity and EuroNight trains stop at the station.

The station is managed by RFI, which classified it in 2008 in the silver category.[1] It has:

• ticket counter
• ticket machines
• waiting room.
• toilets
• bar