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The Vatican railway has been used primarily for importing goods (before automobile travel became more common and less expensive) into the Vatican and intermittently for ordinary passenger trains.
The planned papal train of Pius XI was never constructed and the Vatican has never employed any railway workers or registered any rolling stock. The official train of Pope Pius IX remains on display at the Museum of Rome in the Palazzo Braschi.
Pope John XXIII, on October 4, 1962, became the first pope to use the Vatican railway during his pilgrimage to Loreto and Assisi one week before the beginning of Second Vatican Council using the Italian presidential train; the trip was broadcast on the Eurovision Network. Pope Pius IX had been both the last pope to visit Loreto (as the head of the Papal States) and the last pope to travel by train. John XXIII also arranged for the remains of Pope Pius X to be transferred to Venice using the Vatican railway.
Pope John Paul II used the railway a few times for symbolic purposes, as early as November 8, 1979, but did not use the railway to leave Rome until January 24, 2002.
Pope Benedict XVI used the railway as well, e.g. for a pilgrimage to Assisi (October 27, 2011).
Vatican City station has no regular passenger trains scheduled.
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