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Molfetta railway station

railway station in Italy

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ17637397 ↗
Source-derived summary

Molfetta (Italian: Stazione di Molfetta) is a railway station serving Molfetta, in the region of Apulia, southern Italy. The station lies on the Adriatic railway, and is serviced by Trenitalia trains.

Train services

The station is served by the following service(s):

Intercity services Rome - Foggia - Bari

Intercity services Bologna - Rimini - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari - Brindisi - Lecce

Intercity services Bologna - Rimini - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari - Taranto

Night train (Intercity Night) Rome - Foggia - Bari - Brindisi - Lecce

Night train (Intercity Night) Milan - Parma - Bolgona - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari - Brindisi - Lecce

Night train (Intercity Night) Milan - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari - Taranto - Brindisi - Lecce

Night train (Intercity Night) Turin - Alessandria - Bolgona - Ancona - Pescara - Foggia - Bari - Brindisi - Lecce

Regional services (Treno regionale) Foggia - Barletta - Bari

See also

Railway stations in Italy

List of railway stations in Apulia

Rail transport in Italy

History of rail transport in Italy

References

External links

This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at May 2014.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Molfetta railway station” as railway station in Italy. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Molfetta, railway and station.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Molfetta, railway and station providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Molfetta railway station”, the useful work is to connect “railway station in Italy” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17637397. Authority coordinates are 41.196, 16.597. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Molfetta railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.