Villanova d'Asti Station

The station building is structured on two floors with a rectangular plan. The ground floor has a lateral extension to the left (observing the building on the street side), which extends into a rectangular shape and also acts as a balcony for the first floor. A smaller section of the same floor is used as a public area, hosting a waiting room equipped with various services for travellers, including two automatic ticket machines^[4], metal benches for waiting, a defibrillator as a first aid point in case of emergency^[5], and a public telephone (the latter no longer active from 2023^[6]). In the past, the hall also housed the ticket office with operator, a service that was abolished in 2019^[4]. Adjacent to this area is the Movement Manager's room, which partially extends onto the platform of the first track via a glass and iron cabin. The side wall overlooking the tracks and the platform of the first track are partly protected by a metal roof that overlooks the platform, offering shelter in case of bad weather. This space also houses an LED monitor for departure information and some concrete benches for waiting. On the first floor, in the past, there was an apartment intended for the station master, but this unit is currently uninhabited as of 2026.

On the sides of the FV there were two additional monoplane structures. The first is a medium-sized, exposed brick building which houses the bar-tabaker at 2026, for most of its surface; it also serves as a resale of travel titles, replacing the counter ticket office, service that is now suppressed in 2019. Next to it, in the same building, are placed toilets, accessible from the platform 1 and from the entrance to the street side, as well as the entrance to the underpass. The latter allows the connection of the platform 1 with that of tracks 2 and 3. The other structure is the warehouse goods, equipped with a loader plan; it is already from the beginning of the 10th century in good state of conservation despite being dismissed and converted to simple service warehouse in use to RFI. The binary beam that was placed at its service serves to 2025 as a shelter for the maintenance means of RFI, as well as a stop track for some wagons or freight carts^[7].

Next to the bar building there is a residential building developed on one floor and equipped with garden, enclosed by a classic concrete rail fence. The building and the ground attached to it, inaccessible to the user and probably originally a house for railway staff, appear at 2011 in state of abandonment since they are uninhabited^[8]. On the Genoa side there is also a further toll booth inhabited by those who handled the movement of the switches located at the kilometer progression 30+258, before these were automated and remote-controlled and, as of 2026, it is uninhabited.