The station was opened on , upon the inauguration of the
Cormons–Galleria section of the
Udine–Trieste railway. Located at that time in the territory of the
Austrian Empire, the station then had the dual name of
Görz/Gorizia and was operated by the Imperial Royal Privileged Southern Railway Company of
Austria,
Venice and
central Italy (German: ). In 1902, the station became a junction station for
the branch line to
Ajdovščina (Italian: ; German:), built by the Austrian imperial society , which awarded management rights to the
Südbahngesellschaft. Four years later, upon the opening of the
Jesenice-Trieste railway (part of the network of railway lines known as the
Transalpine Railway), the station took on the dual designation of
Görz Südbahnhof/Gorizia Meridionale, to distinguish it from its counterpart on the new line, the
Görz Staatsbahnhof/Gorizia stazione delle ferrovie dello stato (now the
Nova Gorica railway station). The two systems were connected by a short rail link using part of the branch line to Ajdovščina. Under the
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), the two stations went to the
Kingdom of Italy, and the FS became the operator of both. Over the next twelve years, the station on the Udine-Trieste railway changed its name several times: initially it retained only its Italian name
Gorizia Meridionale, then it became
Gorizia Campagnuzza, and since 1923 it has been
Gorizia Centrale. ==Features==