Messina Centrale railway station Messina Centrale railway station Messina Centrale is the main railway station of the Italian city of Messina, in Sicily. As Palermo Centrale, Catania Centrale and Syracuse it is one of the most important stations of its region. It is owned by the "Ferrovie dello Stato", the national rail company of Italy. The station, originally named simply as Messina, was inaugurated on 12 December 1866, as the terminal of the railway to Taormina, the first section of the Messina-Catania-Siracusa line. Heavily damaged after the 1908 earthquake, it was repaired a few years later. In 1939 it was finally renewed and replaced
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