Alcamo Diramazione – Trapani railway line

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Alcamo Diramazione – Trapani
Trapani train station 2010
Trapani train station 2010
Alcamo Diramazione – Trapani railway line
Route number (RFI) : 158
Course book series (IT) : 388
Route length: 53.3 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope : 19  ‰
Minimum radius : 300 m
Top speed: 90 km / h
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Palermo
Station, station
 73.227 Alcamo Diramazione 40 m
   
 73.5 to Trapani (via Castelvetrano)
Station, station
 81,360 Calatafimi 160 m
   
 81.5 to Calatafimi and Santa Ninfa
Road bridge
 82.9 A29dir
Stop, stop
 87,450 Segesta Tempio 243 m
Station without passenger traffic
 90.687 Bruca until 2002 PV 283 m
   
 95.1 Ummari until 2001 PV, shut down in 2002 228 m
   
 97.7 Borgo Bassi
Station without passenger traffic
 102.278 Fulgatore until 2002 PV 164 m
   
 108.3 Dattilo-Napola until 2001 PV, closed in 2002 134 m
Road bridge
 A29dir
Station without passenger traffic
 114.151 Milo station until 2002 24 m
   
118.7
187.6
from Alcamo (via Castelvetrano)
End station - end of the line
 189.345 Trapani

The railway Alcamo-Trapani is an abbreviation for about Castelvetrano leading railway Palermo Trapani in the northwest of Sicily . It has due to unfavorable topographic a variety of conditions engineering structures on. The former main line opened in 1880, but was far from the air line . It was not until September 15, 1937 that the Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) opened the route through the hill country. Due to the abbreviation, the old route was limited to the use of local trains . A few kilometers before Trapani , both routes come together again when coming from the south. Over a long distance, the A29 autostrada runs parallel to the railway line. In 1953 an express train needed more than two hours for the old route and around 50 minutes for the new route. Today the journey time is 45 minutes.

route

Bridge between Alcamo and Calatafimi

In recent years, the route has been partially renovated with EU funding and is now in the best condition since it was founded. At the same time, less frequented stops were closed, which both reduced costs and increased travel speed. The use of new traction vehicles has increased the acceptance and thus the profitability of the routes - as everywhere in Sicily. Currently (2012) trains on this route only stop at Calatafimi and Segesta Tempio stations.

Coming from Alcamo you first reach the Calatafimi station, which was very generously dimensioned during construction, as the Ferrovia Salemi-Kaggera small train was supposed to branch off here to the south, which via Calatafimi (city), Vita and Salemi (city) to Salemi station (today Salemi -Gibellina ), which is back on the old FS route. This small train was built, but never put into operation.

The nearest train station is Segesta Tempio. It lies behind the Monte Barbaro , through which the route leads with a tunnel. There is never finished, but very well-preserved Elymians - Temple of Segesta and the theater of Segesta. The train station is about one and a half kilometers from the Segesta archaeological site .

On February 25, 2013, regular operations on this route were discontinued after a landslide as a result of storms and have not been resumed since (as of August 2016). The project to restore the line was completed on February 13, 2019 and presented to the public works council. The tender is expected to start in the first quarter of 2020, subject to a validation review and the convening of the services conference. The line is expected to reopen in 2024.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Linea Palermo - Trapani.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 246 (March 2003), p. 8.
  3. ↑ a b Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 227 (June 2001), pp. 4-5.
  4. ↑ Ordine di Servizio No. 100 - 1937
  5. ↑ a b Linea Palermo – Trapani. Associazione di Cultura ed Attivitta 'Ferroviaria, accessed August 2, 2014 (Italian).
  6. ↑ Timetable Palermo – Alcamo diramazione – Trapani – Marsala. May 17, 1953, accessed August 2, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Giosuè Malaponti: Tratta ferroviaria Trapani-Palermo: Via Milo chiusa da due anni , February 26, 2015, Giosuè Malaponti, Chairman of the Comitato Pendolari Siciliani-Ciufer
  8. ↑ image of the destruction on legambientesicilia.it
  9. ↑ http://www.siciliaintreno.org/index.php/news/540-ripristino-della-linea-palermo-trapani-via-milo-la-conferenza-del-cifi
  10. ↑ http://www.legambientesicilia.it/wp-content/uploads/crollo-ponte-rfi-caltagirone.jpg

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