Torino Porta Nuova railway station

Torino Porta Nuova
View of the station building.
Location	Italy
Coordinates	45°03′45″N 7°40′44″E / 45.06250°N 7.67889°E / 45.06250; 7.67889Coordinates: 45°03′45″N 7°40′44″E / 45.06250°N 7.67889°E / 45.06250; 7.67889
Owned by	Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Operated by	Grandi Stazioni
Line(s)	Turin–Milan (high speed) Turin–Milan (traditional) Turin–Genoa Turin–Modane, France Turin–Torre Pellice Turin Metro Line M1
Platforms	20
History
Opened	1861 (1861)
Location
Torino Porta Nuova Location of railway station in Turin

Torino Porta Nuova railway station (IATA: TPY) is the main railway station of Turin, northern Italy. It is the third busiest station in Italy for passenger flow after Rome Termini and Milan Central, with about 192,000 journeys per day and 70 million travellers a year and a total of about 350 trains per day. Porta Nuova is a terminal station, with trains arriving perpendicularly to the facade. The station is located in corso Vittorio Emanuele II, right in front of piazza Carlo Felice (in the South side of the city centre).

Trains between Turin and Milan start or finish at the station, including services using the Turin–Milan high-speed line. A subway station, which is part of Turin Subway (Metropolitana di Torino) line 1, has been recently built under the station building.

Construction of the station began in 1861 under the direction of Alessandro Mazzucchetti. The original structure included a clear distinction between the departure area (near Via Nizza) and the arrival area (near Via Sacchi). The departure area consisted of a large saloon, decorated with columns, stucco work and frescoes depicting the crests of 135 Italian cities showing their distance in kilometers from Turin. This building housed the ticket office, three waiting rooms (one for each of the three classes of railway travel), the Royal Hall and a cafe restaurant.

The station was inaugurated on 4 February 2009, but was first opened to the public in December 1864 - although the work was completed in 1868 - without an official opening ceremony, partly because the capital of Italy had just been moved from Turin to Florence. The name Porta Nuova ("New Gate" in English) refers to an old city gate once standing nearby, right along the South side of the old city walls, at the bottom of present-day via Roma (once called via Nuova): after the walls were torn down at the beginning of the 19th century, the gates themselves got demolished - a singular exception was Porta Palatina - but their old names kept being used as local place names (other examples are Porta Susa and Porta Palazzo).