After my brief one night stay on Wednesday, I decided to head off to Trieste as I had to meet the others on Friday in Ljubljana. Constructed after the Second World War, the current railway station is one of the modern buildings with river frontage in this part of Venice.
I had a little wait for my train, so I went off to look around the railway station. The first Venice Santa Lucia railway station was constructed in 1861 and it takes its name from the church of Santa Lucia which they pulled down to allow for the new station building.
This is the view from the side of the railway station, this is one beautiful city. I have seen anything as beautiful as this since Lowestoft railway station flooded.
And here’s the train, departing from platform 1.
Regular readers of this riveting blog will now be familiar with the interior of Hitachi’s Rock trains. This is the top deck.
And the lower deck.
I’m very grateful that the signage on these trains is clear.
Leaving the beautiful city of Venice.
They might not be easy to take photos of, but there are some lovely views from the line near to Trieste as the train entered the Istrian peninsular.
The long platforms of Trieste railway station.
And back in my favourite Italian city of Trieste and it appears that there’s some work being done in the main departure hall.