Bari – Martina Franca – Taranto railway line

Bari – Martina Franca – Taranto
Route length:	112.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Ancona 0 Bari to Lecce 1.4 Bari Sud Est 4.3 0.0 Bari Mungivacca 7.8 Triggiano 9.3 Capurso 15.2 Noicattaro 17.8 Rutigliano 28.3 Conversano 38.8 Castellana grotto 40.7 Grotte di Castellana 3.8 Bari- Ceglie - Carbonara 6.8 Valenzano 8.0 Valenzano lamia 11.3 Adelfia 17.9 Casamassima 25.7 Sammichele 31.9 Putignano S. Pietro Piturno 43.8 43.3 Putignano 48.4 Putignano in Monte Laureto 52.9 Noci 63.5 Alberobello 71.4 Locorotondo Martina Franca – Lecce railway line 77.8 Martina Franca 79.5 Martina Franca Colonne Grassi 84.2 S. Paolo 93.5 Crispiano S. Raffaele 95.5 Crispiano 101.4 Site 111.0 Taranto Galese Taranto – Brindisi railway line 112.5 Taranto Taranto – Reggio di Calabria railway line

Martina Franca station building

Train in the train station of Taranto to Martina Franca (2002)

The Bari – Martina Franca – Taranto (Taranto) railway is part of the Ferrovie del Sud Est (FSE) network, which has been part of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) since August 4, 2016 .

history

Today's route from Bari to Taranto is historically composed of three sections with different origins:

• Bari– Locorotondo and Bari Mungivacca– Putignano
• Locorotondo - Martina Franca
• Martina Franca – Taranto

Ferrovie Sussidiate

Course of the Bari Mungivacca – Putignano line

The Bari – Locorotondo and Bari Mungivacca – Putignano railway lines were built by the Ferrovie Sussidiate . The Bari Mungivacca – Putignano railway branches off from the Bari – Locorotondo main line at Bari Mungivacca station and joins the main line again after 43.3 km in Putignano. The opening of this network took place in sections:

• Bari – Putignano on August 12, 1900,
• Putignano – Locorotondo on December 14, 1903 and
• Bari Mungivacca – Putignano on September 5, 1905

Ferrovie Salentine

After the First World War , the Ferrovie Salentine tried to expand their route network. One implemented project was to connect the terminus of their Lecce - Francavilla Fontana line with the southern tip of the Ferrovie Sussidiate network in Locorotondo. This happened in several stages, the last of which, the Locorotondo – Martina Franca section, went into operation on December 24, 1925.

Strade Ferrate Pugliesi

To build a railway from Martina Franca to Taranto, a separate company was founded, the Strade Ferrate Pugliesi . The banker Carlo Raffaele Bombrini , who held large shares in other regional railway companies, such as the Ferrovie Ferrovio Salentine , played a key role in it . Construction of the Martina Franca – Taranto line began on December 13, 1930. The line went into operation on April 22, 1931, although the Ministry of Transport ( Ministero delle comunicazioni ) did not approve it until May 1, 1931.

FSE

From autumn 1931, a number of small regional railway companies in Apulia merged to form the Ferrovie del Sud Est. These included the above-mentioned companies. As a result, the original kilometrage was replaced by the current one, creating the Bari – Taranto line. Since 2012, the route has been electrified with funds from the European Union . In the course of this modernization, bridges are being renewed and noise barriers are being built.

Route description

The line is single-track , not electrified and 112.5 km long. The only multi-track sections in the entire network of the FSE exist between the train stations Bari and Bari Mungivacca and between Noicàttaro and Rutigliano .

business

Line 1 of the FSE runs on the Bari – Martina Franca – Taranto line, and line 1bis on the Bari Mungivacca – Putignano line. As a rule, vehicles from the FSE ATR 220 series are used here. The line is the only one in the network of the former FSE on which locomotive-hauled trains run with double-decker cars .

literature

• Railway Atlas Italy and Slovenia / Atlante ferroviario d'Italia e Slovenia . Schweers + Wall 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1 , pp. 81, 86f, 93.
• Pietro Marra: Rotaie a Sud Est . Bagnacavallo 2014. ISBN 978-88-909824-0-8

Web links

• Homepage of the FSE

Remarks

1. ↑ On a short section south of the Nardò Centrale train station , the Lecce – Gallipoli and Novoli – Gagliano Leuca lines run on the same embankment . These are two single-track lines.
2. ↑ These vehicles are Polish ATRIBO diesel multiple units

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marra, p. 32
2. ↑ Marra, pp. 53f.
3. ↑ Marra, p. 59
4. ↑ Marra, pp. 58f
5. ^ Railway Atlas Italy and Slovenia , p. 81
6. ↑ Marra, pp. 111-115
7. ↑ Homepage of the FSE
8. ↑ Marra, p. 115f
9. ↑ Homepage of the FSE
10. ↑ Marra, pp. 106, 155