Montiglio-Murisengo Station

The plant was activated as a station on 20 October 1912 by the State Railways, at the same time as the inauguration of the line^[1].

On 1 May of the following year, the name "Montiglio" was changed to "Montiglio-Murisengo".^[2]

Far from the front of the First World War and little interested also from the events of the second not forming a primary strategic objective, the station suffered from such events only because of the consequent fluctuations of the demand for transport, beginning in the second post-war period a period of constant decline of the proceeds from traffic due to the advent of private motorization and a common orientation no longer favorable to the transport on iron.

The long-established traction of steam thanks to the use of thermal motors, traffic continued to maintain at unsatisfactory levels and in place of service strengthening to conquer new user bands in 1986 the railway was included in a list of "dry rhymes" to be suppressed.^[3], saving itself from the network cuts made in that period after some minor timetable changes aimed at lowering operating costs^[4].

Despite the despicable investments, the hypothesis of the cuts of some lines was again ventilated in 1993^[5] but it was soon the nature to put the first serious obstacle to the continuation of the exercise: the line suffered in fact huge damage during the flood of the Po river in 1994, when almost entirely collapsed the bridge on that river. Restoration jobs^[6] the reconstruction of the bridge on the Po^[7]; on 27 August 2000 the reopening of the entire railway line was inaugurated^[8].

At the beginning of the 1990s, the entire Piedmontese secondary network was subject to a deep renewal program aimed at reducing operating costs through automation and remote control of plants.^[9]; closed in 1991^[10][11], the Asti-Chivasso was therefore the subject of works^[12][13] that involved the installation in Montiglio-Murisengo of an Elettrico Central Apparatus at Itineraries; the line was reopened on 19 November 1992^[14].

Since 2001 the management of the entire line, and with it that of the station of Montiglio-Murisengo, has been in charge to Rete Ferroviaria Italiana which for commercial purposes classifies the plant in category "Bronze"^[15].

It remained without traffic from September 1, 2011 due to the suspension of traffic on the line^[16], due to the instability of the Brozolo tunnel, which required extensive structural interventions to make it safe. This suspension was definitively highlighted from 17 June 2012 by decision of the Piemonte Region which, considering its heavy economic-financial situation, did not intend to start a program to enhance rail transport unlike neighboring Lombardy, decreeing the suspension of service contracts on numerous secondary lines under its jurisdiction^[17][18][19].

In view of the reopening of the line for tourist purposes, on 15 May 2022 the station saw a special train coming for the first time after a decade, consisting of two ALn 668 cars, which carried out a test run in the stretch between Chivasso and Montiglio^[20]. On this occasion the buildings were restored, with their original external decoration; the station systems were restored, the lighting was replaced and the sidewalks on the Chivasso side were lengthened, in addition to the complete cleaning of the entire surrounding area.

From 2 October 2022, on the occasion of the "National Fair of Truffle" in Montiglio, was inaugurated the reopening of the line as a tourist railway and the station has been terminus of two historical trains, of which one steam from Turin, tracted up to Chivasso with electric locomotor and the other coming from Cuneo via Asti, composed of railcars (the same ones with which the races had been tested)^[21].

The station is equipped with 2 passing tracks, of which the first track and the second for crossroads and foreheads. There is also a freight port, located in the direction of Chivasso, equipped with a trunk track. The plant was remotely controlled by the point-point system from the Asti Movement Manager. The handling of historical trains is managed on site, with the presence of the station.

The plant has a two-storey passenger building and a freight warehouse (restored for the tourist reopening of the line). Next to the building there is also a smaller structure for toilets.

The station was served by Trenitalia regional trains until 1 September 2011, the day when traffic was suspended on the line for infrastructure problems and replaced by autocorse, while the definitive suspension took place from 17 June 2012 by decision of the Region Piemonte.

Since 2022, the plant has been served on a calendar by historical trains of the FS Foundation.

The station is classified by RFI in category "Bronze"^[15]. It has:

• Waiting room
• Toilets

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• Review of public works and roads, Volume 8, 1915.
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• Italian Railway Network, https://donet.rfi.it/RFIPlatform/viewDocumentWebById.do?docId=%7BAD9F58B4-DA29-4230-A319-7EA17354702E%7D&docType=FL^{[interrupted link]}, 2003 edition.
• Francesco Ogliari, Franco Sapi, Sparks in the mountains. History of Italian transport volume 8°. Piemonte- Aosta Valley, edited by the authors, Milan, 1968
• Luigi Ballatore, History of railways in Piemonte, Turin, Editrice Il Punto, 2002. ISBN 88-88552-00-6