Railway nationalization it was due to expire, the railways were nationalized in 1905. The nationalized operator is known as Ferrovie dello Stato. Italy has an open access high-speed rail operator competing against the national railway; Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori which is part owned by SNCF and private investors. In Japan, the Railway Nationalization Act of 1906 brought most of the country's private railway lines under public control. Between 1906 and 1907, of track were purchased from seventeen private railway companies. The national railway network grew to about of track, and private railways were relegated to providing local and regional services. In the 1980s
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