Venezia Santa Lucia

So Europe for Visitors ( http://europeforvisitors.com/venice/mobile/articles/venice-railroad-station.htm ) says:

First things first: The term "Venice Railroad Station" is a misnomer, because the municipality of Venice has two major stations: Venezia Mestre station on the Italian mainland, and Venezia Santa Lucia station in the city's historic center (which is 6 km or 4 miles offshore in the Venetian Lagoon).

Mestre is a through station where trains stop briefly on their way from Austria and Slovenia to Bologna and Florence. Some trains cross the causeway from Mestre to the Santa Lucia station; others require passengers to disembark in Mestre and catch a local train into the historic center. It's wise to check your train's timetable before departing for Venice, just so you'll know where to get off the train.

From Mestre, a brick-and-stone causeway named the Ponte della Libertà, or "Bridge of Liberty," crosses the Venetian Lagoon to central Venice.

Trains dead-end in the Stazione Ferroviaria Santa Lucia, a stark white building from the mid-1950s that looks out of place in a city where most buildings are hundreds of years old. The station's façade is decorated with the logo of the FS, or Ferrovie dello Stato, a.k.a. Italian State Railways.

Inside, you'll find the usual services, with a few surprises such as a piano (see photo below) for use by passengers and passersby.

So Joan and I bought our tickets from Venice to Milan when we were in Monaco, what we didn't realize we had booked the ticket from Mestre so we left the hotel on the first ferry ⛴ and got to Santa Lucia at 20 minutes before the train was to depart, from Mestre. So. . . we ran into the ticket office and said, we have a problem!

Luckily the ticket seller had heard this time and time again, Mestre was 10 minutes away and if we moved now . . . we would make our train. Just barely!!!

We made it ! ! ! !