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The first Railways were introduced in Italy when it was still a divided country, a few decades before the political unification. The first line to be built on the peninsula was the Naples–Portici line, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which was 7.64 km (4.75 mi) long and was inaugurated on 3 October 1839, nine years after the world's first ...
Head office of the Ferrovie dello Stato in Rome An ETR 500 train running on the Florence–Rome high-speed line near Arezzo, the first high-speed railway opened in Europe [8] An Italian local train Minuetto. The first line to be built on the peninsula was the Naples–Portici line, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which was 7.64 km (4.75 mi ...
A Frenchman promoted the line, Armand Bayard de la Vingtrie, who received a concession to build it in February 1837 from King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.The concession authorised Bayard to build a railway from the current location of Napoli Centrale railway station outside the old walls of Naples along the Bay of Naples to Nocera Inferiore on the Sorrentine Peninsula, a distance of 35.8 ...
Tourist train in transit on the Ceva–Ormea railway in Italy Bernina railway line between Poschiavo, Switzerland, and Tirano, Italy Tourist train on the Cosenza-Camigliatello–San Giovanni in Fiore railway in Italy. In Italy the heritage railway institute is recognized and protected by law no. 128 of 9 August 2017, which has as its objective ...
1856 – The first railway in Papal State, Italy, from Rome to Frascati. 1856 – First railway completed in Portugal, linking Lisbon to Carregado. 1856 – Paris–Marseille railway opened, which together with other railways north of Paris created the first transcontinental railroad (from the English Channel to the Mediterranean Sea)
The Apennine Base Tunnel, alternatively known as the Grand Apennine Tunnel, [1] is a railway base tunnel 18.507 kilometres (11.500 mi) long on the Bologna-Florence Direttissima line in central Italy. At the time of its completion, the Apennine Base Tunnel was the world's second longest tunnel after the Simplon Tunnel , and the longest built ...
The Autostrada dei Laghi ("Lakes Motorway"; now parts of the Autostrada A8 and the Autostrada A9) near Besnate, the first motorway built in the world [1] [2] Milano Centrale railway station is the largest railway station in Europe by volume. [3]
The Sicilian railroad network, which was largely created in the 70 years between the Unification of Italy and the first decade of Mussolini's government, underwent little change since then until after World War II when, especially with the so-called Scalfaro decree, the disposal of some lines that were deemed too costly in terms of the ratio of revenue to yield began despite the fact that they ...