Avellino railway station Avellino railway station Avellino is the main railway station of the Italian city of Avellino, in the region of Campania. It is owned by the "Ferrovie dello Stato", the national rail company of Italy, and is classified "Silver". Situated in the western suburb of Avellino, 2.5 km from the city centre, the station also serves the town of Atripalda, whose territory borders with it. The end track of the RA2 motorway from Salerno is located 500 m south of the station. The station was opened in 1879, as the northern terminal of the line from Mercato San Severino, extended to
Florence–Rome high-speed railway is referred to by Ferrovie dello Stato (the State Railways) as the "Linea Lenta" (meaning "slow line", abbreviated "LL") to distinguish it from the parallel high-speed line. In 2016 a contract was let for resignalling with ETCS level 2. The line is part of Corridor 1 of the European Union's Trans-European high-speed rail network, which connects Berlin and Palermo. The 315 km railway between Rome and Florence developed from several different lines by several different companies for different purposes and as a result was curvy and slow. Over the years there had been many studies, proposals and projects for deviations