Bari – Barletta railway line

Bari – Barletta
Route length:	70 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3 kV  =
Dual track :	Fesca – Ruvo (-Corato)
Legend 0 Bari Centrale transition to FS , FSE and FAL 0.5 Quintino Sella Bari – Matera railway line 1.4 Brigata Bari Depot 2.0 Francesco Crispi 3.8 Fesca-San Girolamo after: Cittadella “Metropolitana” San Paolo 8.5 Palese Ancona – Lecce railway line 9.7 Macchie by Bari S. Spirito Enziteto Ancona – Lecce railway line Europe Aerostazione Airport Bari Vado Francioso A14 to Bitonto (old train station) 17.1 Bitonto Santi Medici 18.3 Bitonto 26.7 Sovereto 30.1 Terlizzi 36.7 Ruvo 44.5 Corato 57.5 Andria A14 68.7 Barletta Scalo Ancona – Lecce railway line 70.0 Barletta Centrale RFI routes to Foggia and Spinazzola

The Bari – Barletta railway is a standard-gauge railway in southern Italy . It is operated by the private railway company Ferrotramviaria SpA .

history

The line replaced a narrow-gauge steam tram with a gauge of 750 mm. The current route was opened in 1965. It was also built in sections on the old route of the steam tram, whose operation was discontinued in 1959.

Infrastructure

From the second half of the 1990s, some sections were expanded to double tracks. The second track was put into operation in November 2004 on the Bitonto - Ruvo section , in April 2005 on the Palese - Bitonto section and in January 2006 on the Fesca - Palese section. The section between Ruvo and Corato , like the entire line, should also be doubled , a project that has not been completed to date (2016) for financial reasons.

In some sections the train protection is carried out by telephone communication between the neighboring dispatchers ("blocco telephonico").

Since December 22, 2008, the section within the city of Bari has also been used by the light rail , the Servizio ferroviario metropolitano di Bari .

Incidents

On July 12, 2016, numerous people were killed in a head-on collision between two Ferrotramviaria railcars on the single-track section between the Corato and Andria stations .

→ Main article : Railway accident between Corato and Andria

See also

• Servizio ferroviario metropolitano di Bari

literature

• Railway Atlas Italy and Slovenia / Atlante ferroviario d'Italia e Slovenia . Schweers + Wall 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1

Web links

Commons : Bari – Barletta railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Course book of the route
• Documents and newspaper articles on the Société des Chemins de Fer Economiques de Bari-Barletta et Extensions SA in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .

Remarks

1. ↑ Whether the section has been completed in the meantime is not (yet) clear from the Italian Railway Atlas , p. 81.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Italy , p. VIII.
2. ^ ^{A b} Hans Jürgen Rosenberger, Gian Guido Turchi: Puglia: lavori da Nord a Sud-Est. In: I Treni No. 294, June 2007. Editrice Trasporti su Rotaie, p. 27.
3. ↑ Railway Atlas Italy , p. 80f.
4. ↑ mr: devastating frontal collision of two regional trains in Apulia . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 8–9 / 2016, p. 415.
5. ↑ mr: devastating frontal collision of two regional trains in Apulia . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 8–9 / 2016, p. 415.
6. ^ Suburbana a Bari. In: I Treni No. 312, February 2009. Editrice Trasporti su Rotaie, p. 7.