Vignale railway station Vignale railway station Vignale railway station () is the railway station serving the "comune" of Novara, in the Piedmont region, northwestern Italy. It is the junction of the Novara–Arona, Novara–Domodossola and Novara–Varallo The station is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). Train services are operated by Trenitalia. Each of these companies is a subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company. The station was opened on 14 June 1855, upon the inauguration the third part of the Alessandria–Novara–Arona railway, from Novara to Arona. Two tracks of which are equipped with platforms. The station is served by the
Rail transport in Vatican City September 1934, on which date the property passed from "Ferrovie dello Stato" (Italian State Railways) to the Holy See. In October 1934 the Ministry of Public Works gave the completed rail lines to Vatican City and Ferrovie dello Stato, respectively. "Legge sulle fonti del diritto" (7 June 1929) made Italian railway legislation binding on Vatican-controlled railways. In late March 1944, during the allied bombing of Rome in World War II, the Vatican discovered a German munitions train parked on the line by the Vatican railway station. Pope John XXIII, on 4 October 1962, became the first pope to use the