San Giovanni Valdarno railway station
San Giovanni Valdarno | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Piazza Matteotti 49 52027 San Giovanni Valdarno AR San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, Tuscany Italy | ||||
| Coordinates | 43°33′58″N 11°31′39″E / 43.56611°N 11.52750°E | ||||
| Operated by | Rete Ferroviaria Italiana | ||||
| Line(s) | Firenze–Roma | ||||
| Distance | 47.23 km (29.35 mi) from Firenze Santa Maria Novella | ||||
| Platforms | 4 | ||||
| Train operators | Trenitalia | ||||
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| Classification | Silver | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 5 April 1863 | ||||
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San Giovanni Valdarno railway station (Italian: Stazione di San Giovanni Valdarno) is situated on the Florence–Rome railway line, 50 km from Florence, on the section between Florence and Arezzo.
The station is situated near the connection with the "direttissima" (high speed track). One train an hour passes on the direttissima without stopping. It arrives in Florence in 20 minutes. The other trains pass from the slow line via Pontassieve.
The freight yard is used quite frequently because nearby the station there is a large still mill.
All regional trains stop at the station.
The station has one automatic ticket machine. The ticket office is open from 6:30 am to 7:30 pm. The station also has a waiting room.
There are many monitors (two in the station, two for the platforms 2 and 3) displaying train departures and arrivals.
The station has about 2118 passenger movements daily, or 0.773 million annually. Approximately 140 trains call here daily in each direction. Each hour 4 trains go both southbound and northbound. The first train arrives at 5:07 in the morning and the last one leaves the station at 00:03.
Outside the station there is also a taxi service with numbers displayed on posters outside the station.