The stazione di Lamezia Terme Centrale is one of the main stations of the Southern Tyrrhenian Railway. It is also the starting point of the line to Catanzaro. It is located 26 meters above sea level in the Sant’Eufemia district and serves the town of Lamezia Terme.
Passenger traffic is approximately 1 million per year.
History
The opening of the station is linked to the completion of the section between Sant'Eufemia Marina-Gizzeria and Pizzo, entrusted to the Società per le Strade Ferrate del Mediterraneo, which took place on 15 November 1894. On the same day, the first section of approximately 25 km between Sant'Eufemia Bifurcazione (the original name of the current Lamezia Terme Centrale station) and Marcellinara of the branch line to Catanzaro Lido was also opened to traffic. The following year, on 31 July 1895, the opening to traffic of the long section, finally completed, between Praja-Ajeta-Tortora, passing through Scalea, Cetraro, Paola, Amantea up to Sant'Eufemia Marina connected the station to the rest of the Southern Tyrrhenian Railway. Catanzaro became accessible from the Tyrrhenian coast by rail on 8 June 1899, thus also creating a connection between the station and the towns on the Ionian railway.
Between 1928 and 1935 a reclamation program of the Sant'Eufemia plain was started with the construction of numerous farmhouses and a new and larger station in Marina di Gizzeria (today Sant'Eufemia Lamezia, not to be confused with Sant'Eufemia Marina which is today's Gizzeria Lido and which at the time was more important also due to its proximity to the port), this in 1935 took the new name of Sant'Eufemia Lamezia station, in place of the previous one of Sant'Eufemia Bifurcazione. In the same years the entire Tirrenica Meridionale railway was electrified and a locomotive shed was built on the north side of the station. In the sixties the station was expanded following the construction of the double track between Scalea and San Pietro a Maida and the modernization of all the infrastructures. Finally, in 1969, after the establishment of the new municipality of Lamezia Terme which brought together the previous municipalities of Nicastro, Sambiase and Sant'Eufemia Lamezia, the station changed its name again to its current one. The suffix Centrale was added to distinguish it from the stations of Lamezia Terme Nicastro and Lamezia Terme Sambiase.
Strutture e impianti
The station consists of 7 passenger platforms equipped with shelters and underpasses. The freight track bundle extends mainly on the eastern side of the station.
Movement
National transport
The station is served by Frecciarossa, Frecciargento, Frecciabianca, Italo, InterCity and InterCity Notte trains, which connect the airport with Paola, Salerno, Naples, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Reggio Emilia, Ferrara, Padua, Venice, Milan, Turin, Reggio Calabria and Sicily.
The InterCity and InterCity Notte trains are operated with E.401, E.402B, E.403 locomotives with UIC-Z + second class semi-pilot carriages and Gran Confort first class carriages.
The Frecciarossa, Frecciargento and Frecciabianca trains are operated by ETR.500, ETR.600, ETR 485, ETR 470 and ETR 460/463 electric trains.
Italo trains are operated with ETR.675 Pendolino Evo electric trains.
Regional transport
The station is served by regional trains that connect Lamezia Terme Centrale with:
- Paola
- Cosenza (via Paola)
- Catanzaro Lido
- Reggio Calabria Centrale
- Rosarno (via Tropea)
- Melito di Porto Salvo
- Crotone
- Sibari (via Catanzaro Lido) – (via Paola-Cosenza)
Regional transport trains to Paola, Cosenza, Reggio Calabria and Melito di Porto Salvo are operated with E.464 with restored UIC-X carriages + semi-control cars, low-floor carriages + semi-control cars, MDVC carriages, MDVE carriages + semi-control cars, mixed first and second class. In addition, Minuetto ALe 501/502 trains are used. Regional transport trains to Crotone, Catanzaro Lido and Sibari are operated with ALn 663, ALn 668 in single and double element, ATR.220 Swing trains are also used.
Local transport
The station is interconnected to Lamezia Terme airport via Trenitalia’s Lamezia AirLink buses.
Services
Lamezia Terme Centrale station has:
Counter and automatic ticket machines
Subway
Bar
News kiosk
Toilets
Urban and interurban bus stop
Taxi station- Snack and drink vending machines
Sound announcement of train arrival and departure
Interchanges
Bus stop- Taxi
