Caltanissetta Xirbi – Lercara Diramazione railway line

Caltanissetta Xirbi – Lercara Diramazione
Route number (RFI) :	157
Course book series (IT) :	382
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3 kV  =
Legend Route from Catania 125.78 Caltanissetta Xirbi 409  m slm Route to Aragona Caldare 116.30 Mimiani - San Cataldo PV until 2002 289  m slm Marianopoli Tunnel (6,478 m) 105.30 Marianopoli PV until 2005 340  m slm 99.80 Villalba 382  m slm 94.91 Vallelunga 439  m slm 85.81 Valledolmo former Bf 499  m slm 82.20 Marcatobianco PV until 2002 453  m slm Route from Agrigento / Porto Empedocle 76.77 Lercara Diramazione Route to Palermo

The Caltanissetta – Lercara railway is a railway line in Sicily . It is part of the shortest connection between the two largest cities in Sicily, Palermo and Catania .

Mimiani-San Cataldo depot

Opening date	Route section
0June 5, 1881	( Roccapalumba ) - Lercara Diramazione - Valledolmo
September 15, 1881	Valledolmo - Marianopoli
December 20, 1881	East portal of the Marianopoli Tunnel - Caltanissetta Xirbi
0August 1, 1885	Marianopoli tunnel

In connection with the project “Variant di Lercara” , the new Lercara Diramazione separation station was built on November 29, 2015 .

literature

• Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, Fascicolo linea 157
• Romualdo Giuffrida: Lo Stato e le ferrovie in Sicilia. (1860–1895) (= Storia economica di Sicilia. Vol. 8). Sciascia Editore, Caltanissetta et al. 1967.

Web links

Commons : Caltanissetta Xirbi – Lercara Diramazione  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 246 (March 2003), p. 8.
2. ^ Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 277 (January 2006), p. 8.
3. ↑ Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 December 1926 - Chronology of the route openings in Italy between 1839 and 1926
4. ↑ http://www.fsnews.it/fsn/Gruppo-FS-Italiane/Italferr/RFI-linea-Palermo-Agrigento-abbattuto-ultimo-diaframma-della-galleria-Lercara