Vatican City railway station

The Vatican Railway (Ferrovia Vaticana) is a 1.27-kilometre (0.79 mi) railway connecting its only station, Vatican City, (Stazione Vaticana [statˈtsjoːne vatiˈkaːna] or Città del Vaticano [tʃitˈta ddel vatiˈkaːno]) to the Italian railway network. The section of the line within Vatican City comprises only one station and 300 metres (980 ft) of track, making it the shortest national railway system in the world. The station has two platforms and four tracks, of which one platform and track must use a headshunt in a tunnel to the north-west of the station to reverse towards Italy. An iron gate in the city walls separate the Vatican City and Italian sections, and the gate is only opened for trains to pass through. On the Italian side, trains pass over the Gelsomino Viaduct to reach Roma San Pietro railway station. Having previously been excluded from the Italian railway network, Vatican City access to Italy's rail system was guaranteed in the Lateran Treaty of 1929, and was constructed under Pope Pius XI, who demanded a grand station building be constructed to remain in keeping with the city. The line and station were in use by 1934 but no pope used it until Pope John XXIII in 1962. By the time the papal plane could be used for long-distance travel, the railway was not useful for papal transport and was used only for bringing freight into Vatican City from Italy an

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