Turin's Porta Nuova station

A view of the tracks in 1911, the street facade in the distance

A view of Torino Porta Nuova station, completed in 1868, in the New Zealand Railways Magazine of April 1932. It is still the main railway station of Turin, the third busiest station in Italy after Rome Termini and Milan Central, and sees about 192,000 journeys per day, 70 million travellers a year and about 350 trains per day.

It is, as the Germans would call it, a Kopfbahnhof or a terminal station, with trains arriving at a right angle to the street facade. The station is centrally located at the intersection of the streets of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and Piazza Carlo Felice. A station on the Turin Subway (Metropolitana di Torino) has been built under the main station.

Trains between Turin and Milan start or finish at the station, including services using the Turin–Milan high-speed line. TGV services between Paris and Milan also stop and reverse at the station. A rebuilt Porta Susa station is expected to become Turin's main station at the end of this year.