Rome–Cassino–Naples railway

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Rome–Cassino–Naples railway
Stazione di Napoli Centrale 2008.jpg
Rome–Cassino–Naples railway
Route map

Legend
0.000
 Roma Termini
Left arrowto , Pisa, Fiumicino
Right arrowto Pescara, Naples (HS), Florence (slow) and (HS)
4.257
to Naples (via Formia)
9.982
opened 1939[1]
Grande Raccordo Anulare – E80
13.921
(0.000)
 Ciampino
to , and Frascati
20.570
opened 2000
Autostrada A1 to the south - E821
25.715
28.258
opened 1941[2]
Rome–Fiuggi–Alatri–Frosinone railway
(closed 1984)
Autostrada A1 - E45
Rome–Fiuggi–Alatri–Frosinone railway
(closed 1983)
34.852
 /
reversing loop
36.880
closed 1990
39.922
 crossing loops
42.468
45.555
49.922
 crossing loops
Autostrada A1 - E45
Rome–Naples HSR
closed 1966
53.588
Rome–Naples HSR
62.506
Rome–Naples HSR
67.436
67.941
 Sgurgola junction
Rome–Naples HSR
72+146
Autostrada A1 - E45
77.227
Rome-Fiuggi-Alatri-Frosinone railway
(Frosinone interurban), closed 1935
85.479
 Frosinone
/
Roma-Fiuggi-Alatri-Frosinone railway
(closed 1935)
Autostrada A1 - E45
91.972
100.618
110.595
112.617
120.993
124 m a.s.l.
Aquino-Castrocielo-Pontecorvo
(closed 2000)
128.988
(opened 2000)
Piedimonte-Villa Santa Lucia
(closed 2000)
137.982
143.459
closed 1949[3]
147.592
to HSR /
Lazio
Campania
154.990
162.544
169.585
176.228
Autostrada A1 - E45
Rome–Naples HSR
181.960
, closed 1957
189.256
Rome–Naples HSR
195.290
202.395
 Caserta north junction no 2
from HSR
Volturno river
204.560
209.403
Autostrada A1 - E45
from Naples (via Aversa)
215.680
 Caserta
to Foggia
221.440
Maddaloni junction
MCNE line to Benevento
227.457
to Avellino
, closed 2014
Autostrada A30 – E841
 Acerra Scalo
234.605
Regi Lagni
238.010
Autostrada A16 - E842
Naples–Baiano railway
Naples–Salerno HSR
Autostrada A1 – E45
Circumvesuviana Naples-Baiano
(old disused route)
from Rome (via Aversa-Formia) and Foggia
Circumvesuviana Naples-Baiano
from Salerno
from Salerno
Napoli Gianturco
248.800
 Napoli Centrale/Napoli Piazza Garibaldi
Naples–Salerno railway
Source: Italian railway atlas[4]
This diagram:

The Rome–Cassino–Naples railway is a railway in Italy, the first of the three existing railway lines between the capitals of Latium and Campania to be opened when it was completed by the Società per le strade ferrate romane in 1863. The line is now fully electrified at 3 kV DC. It is now mainly used by regional trains, some trains to and from the Adriatic coast and a few night trains. The Rome–Naples high-speed railway line (which was largely opened on 19 December 2005) generally follows the same route.

History[]

The first part of the line to be opened was at the southern end, built by the Royal Neapolitan Railway Company and was opened between Naples, Cancello and Caserta on 20 December 1843 and was the second line opened in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies after the Naples–Portici line opened in 1839. It operated from a terminal at Napoli Porta Nolana, now used by the Circumvesuviana Railway. This line was extended to Capua on 26 May 1844. A branch line was opened from Cancello to Nola in 1846 and extended to Sarno in 1856.[5]

The northern part of the line was opened between a station at Porta Maggiore (southwest of the modern Termini station) and Ciampino on 14 July 1856 as part of the Rome–Frascati line by the Società Pio Latina ("Latin Pius Railway"), a French company named in honour of Pope Pius IX, who had overturned the Vatican's previous opposition to innovations such as railways in the Papal States. This line was extended to the new Roma Termini station on 22 October 1863.[6]

In 1860 the Società Pio Latina and the Società Pio Centrale—the builder of the Rome–Civitavecchia railway, opened in 1859—combined to form the Società per le strade ferrate romane ("Roman Railway Company"), which then absorbed the Royal Neapolitan Railway Company. It opened an 80 kilometres (50 mi) section from Roma Termini to Ceprano–Falvaterra (including the Porta Maggiore–Ciampino section) on 1 December 1862. The 42 kilometres (26 mi) Capua–Tora–Presenzano section had been opened on 14 October 1861 and the final 52 kilometres (32 mi) section between Ceprano–Falvaterra and Tora–Presenzano was opened on 25 February 1863.[7][8]

Branches and connections[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Service order no. 151 of 1939
  2. ^ Service order no. 125 of 1941
  3. ^ Service order no. 116 of 1949
  4. ^ Atlante ferroviario s'Italia e Slovenia [Italian and Slovenian railway atlas)] (1 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2010. pp. 69–70, 76–7, 82, 147–53, 155. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1.
  5. ^ Kalla-Bishop, P. M. (1971). Italian Railways. Newton Abbott, Devon, England: David & Charles. pp. 16–19.
  6. ^ Kalla-Bishop, P. M. (1971). Italian Railways. Newton Abbott, Devon, England: David & Charles. p. 28.
  7. ^ Kalla-Bishop, P. M. (1971). Italian Railways. Newton Abbott, Devon, England: David & Charles. p. 38.
  8. ^ "Chronological overview of the opening of railway lines from 1839 to 31 December 1926" (in Italian). Trenidicarta.it. Retrieved 17 January 2010.

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