Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane a centralization policy was carried out. The board of directors and chief administrator office were abolished at the end of 1922. The institution was administered by a commissioner, appointed by the King until April 1924. Since then, Ferrovie dello Stato was managed by the newly born Ministry of Communications (including rail transport), under Costanzo Ciano. After the armistice on 8 September 1943, Italy was divided and train operations were separately directed too, with headquarters in Salerno for the south and Verona for the north. At the end of 1944, the Ministry of Communications was split and the new Ministry of
Trieste Centrale railway station an interim solution: the Rive railway (German: '). With the opening of the Jesenice-Trieste railway (part of the network of railway lines known as the Transalpine Railway) in 1906, the St Andrea station was replaced by a new, more capacious, facility, named "Trieste stazione dello Stato" (German: '). The original station came to be identified as "Trieste stazione della Meridionale" or "Trieste Meridionale" (German: '). Following World War I and the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), both stations came under the management of the FS. The original station was later renamed "Trieste Centrale", and "Trieste stazione dello Stato" became "Trieste Campo