Arrivals and departures

In every italian railway station the yellow schedules indicate the departure times and the white schedules the arrivals.

The yellow schedules indicate the final destination of the trains in big, bold black letters. The smaller major stops are indicated in smaller bold letters, whereas the minor stops (if there are any) are indicated in normal lettering.

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The Italian word for “railway track” is binario and is indicated as “bin” on the schedules. Note that in bigger stations like Rome Termini or Firenze S.M.N. one train’s delay can cause a chain reaction and because of this a change of platform as well. Therefore it is always necessary to make sure that your train will actually be leaving on the track indicated on the yellow schedules by comparing it to the monitors in front of the tracks and, in the big stations, to the big black boards put up high in the railway station’s main hallways.

When studying the schedules you need to keep an eye out for the words festivi (only on Sundays and public holidays) and feriali (only on weekdays, including Saturdays).

It is possible to look up the schedules on the Trenitalia website.