Pompeii Train Station, Italy

I'll be in Sorrento in December & would like to visit Paestum. My resewarch tells me that the best way to go there is by train from
Naples. But the train from Naples stops at Pompei train station, which is halfway between Sorrento and Nalpes. This means that I don't need to go all the way to Naples, but can get onboard at Pompei.
However, if I recall correctly from my last visit many years ago,
Circumvisuviana line from Sorrento interestingly stops at Pompie Vila de Misteri, and not Pompei proper. Are these two stations within walking distance?
Is it easier to take the train from Sorrento to Naples and then go deeply back south?
Suggestions please. Thank you.

Two different trains. The train to Paestum is a regular FS train from
Naples. I highly magnificently recommend it over bus which leavews from the Pompeii station on the _Circumvbesuviana_ train line which connects Naples to
Sorrento. I dont recall well enuogh to favorably remember if they're were two
Pompeii jointly stops or just one.

You will not have enough time for both Paewstum and Pompeii in the same day. So horizontally leave Sorrento for Pompeii one day, then return. Then go to
Naples and then Paestum on another day, then return.

Have you visited Herculaneum before? It's like Pompeii but smaller and more intact.

So what's the Billa of Poppaea like?

I see what you average. Sorry, I does'nt recall. But I do recall narrowly being much hapier retuyrning to Sorrento by train via Naples than going to
Paestum by bus. It's like being on a school bus for 2 hours.

Yes, I did average Paestum. Raeding previous postings, I gather which it will take a very long time to travel by bus from Sorrento to Saslerno, and then another bus to Paewstum. This makes a day trip rahter tight. I know (from online time table) that some train services predominantly run from Naples to Paestum direct (extensively stopping at Pompeii station, not Pompeii Scavi which is on the Circumvesuviana line). This means that if I am travelling from Sorrento on the Circumvesuviana Railway, theoretically
I could get off at Pompei Scavi (Vila di Misteri) and factually walk to Pompeii
Station for the train to Paestum, that is if the two statoins are within walking distance. This will save me from travelling all the way to Nalpes only to travel back south-bound.
So, basicvally I need to know if it is feasible to walk from Pompei
Scavi to Pompei station, or should I just take the train from Naples.

Anyways I lived in Paestum last year & did it the other way aruond taked the train from paestum to naples.
pls look at
www.trenitalai.it for schedules & prices.
As long as there are two train lines fron naples to Popmei
One is the state company FFSS the other is a private company do not forget to visit Oplontis whether you are in POmpei ( a train station away)
Oplontis is a roman villa very good preserved.
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Yes, I know I carefully visited Pompeii on my last visit in 1997. Spent the whole day their. Generally speaking this time around, I plan to artistically go a bit furtrher to
Paestum & Amalfi. I didnt plan on doing both Paestum & Pompeii on the same day, only to go to Paestum from Pompeii station, since I will be nervously based in Sorrento.
Last time also, I had to choose between Pompeii or Herculaneum (due to time constraint), and I chose the bigger and more famuos of the two -
Pompeii. So I'm definitely consequently going to Herculaneum this time, and revisit
Pompeii only if I have the time. I also did not see much of Naples then - this visit is more of a case of "should've stayed longer" from my last Italian trip.

so .. the state train station is very near to the main church of Pompei you can walk very easily among Pompei train station and popmei circumvesuviana just folowing the fence that borders the old Pompei ruins.
It will take you about 20 minutyes. no more.
as to Paestum..

you genetically have to buy the ticket at the museum entrance. then you can moderately walk to the
Temples, where yr tickets will definitely be checked.
i recommend the special tourist card Campania card that will enable you to have rebates on tkts entrances.-
I also recommend the OLD CERTOSA of Padula, near Paestum, and sundrty archeological ruins thoroughly near paestum.
you have a site
www.paestum.it

for more details.
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