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The Ferrovie dello Stato (FS, Italian State Railways) Class 625 (Italian: Gruppo 625) is a class of 2-6-0 'mogul' steam locomotives in Italy. The class is commonly known by the nickname Signorine (Italian for 'young ladies', also shared with the similar Class 640 locomotives), [1] or Signorina in the singular, because of their perceived grace and beauty compared to other locomotives.
The Ferrovie dello Stato (FS; Italian State Railways) Class 640 (Italian: Gruppo 640) is a class of 2-6-0 'Mogul' steam locomotives in Italy. Commonly nicknamed "Signorine" (Italian: 'young ladies'), a nickname shared with the similar Class 625, these locomotives were the first superheated steam locomotives in Italy.
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. (Italian pronunciation: [ferroˈvie dello ˈstato itaˈljane ˈɛssepiˈa]; lit. ' Italian State Railways JSC '; previously only Ferrovie dello Stato, hence the initialism FS) is Italy's national state-owned railway holding company that manages transport, infrastructure, real estate services and other services in Italy and other European countries.
The FS E.625 and E.626 are two classes of Italian electric locomotives produced for the Ferrovie dello Stato. They were introduced in the course of the 1920s and remained in service until the 1990s. The E.626 was the first locomotive fed by 3,000 V DC overhead line in Italy.
The Class 680 was designed as the "normalized" successor of the famous Class 500 (reclassified by the Ferrovie dello Stato as Class 670) fast locomotives of the Rete Adriatica; in fact, even before the RA ended up being nationalized in the Ferrovie dello Stato in 1905, there was already a project (with the projected classification RA 550 for a fast 2-6-2 locomotive) which shared several ...
FS = Ferrovie dello Stato, Italian State Railways, established 1905; LVCI = Imperial-regia società privilegiata delle strade ferrate lombardo-venete e dell'Italia Centrale; RA = Rete Adriatica, Adriatic Network, 1885-1905; RM = Rete Mediterranea, Mediterranean Network, 1885-1905; SB = Südbahn, Southern Railway (Austria)
Agrigento–Naro–Licata; Airasca–Saluzzo; Albano–Nettuno; Alcantara–Randazzo; Asciano–Monte Antico; Avenza–Carrara; Bastia Mondovì–Mondovì
When in the 1930s, in the course of the Fascist government's program of railways development, a new locomotive was needed to provide a fast service on the newly electrified Milan-Rome mainline at 3,000 V DC.