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1951, Giuliano Tomei The new Roma Termini station, illustrated from a functional and architectural point of view. The lesser-known aspects of this grandiose railway system. A crowded train arrives at the station in Rome. We glimpse the passengers preparing to disembark: a beautiful brunette girl waving from the window, a man busy with his suitcase, a family getting ready to disembark. The station appears in its frenetic comings and goings: the newsagent, the restaurants, the tobacconist, the drinks trolley and then the frenetic mass of travellers. The eye of the camera does not limit itself to showing us the public spaces of the structure, it goes underground; 19 metres below the tracks lies the heart of Termini station: a dense network of wires, pipes, tunnels, engines and workers who work to make the arrivals and departures of the thousands of travellers who pass through Termini every day comfortable and efficient.