Canicattì – Syracuse railway line

Caltanissetta – Syracuse
Diesel multiple units in Ragusa station
Route number (RFI) :	159
Course book series (IT) :	392
Route length:	151 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Route from Catania Route to Aragona Caldare 161.0 Canicattì transition to Naro until 1958 463  m slm 163.3 Delia PV until 2002 363  m slm 170.8 Campobello - Ravanusa 295  m slm Favarotta PV until 2002 130  m slm 189.8 Santa Oliva PV until 2002 77  m slm 199.8 Licata transfer to Agrigento until 1958 4  m slm Licata Licata postage 210.7 Falconara 25  m slm 223.7 Butera PV until 2002 82  m slm former route until 1977 236.1 Gela Route to Lentini Diramazione 239.2 Gela ANIC 245.0 Gela Lago 14  m slm 250.0 Dirillo PV until 2002 17  m slm 255.0 Acate 102  m slm 265.3 Vittoria 170  m slm 273.1 Comiso 169  m slm 286.7 Donnafugata 286  m slm Genisi PV until 2002 457  m slm 306.2 Ragusa transition to Siracusa until 1949 514  m slm Ragusa spiral tunnel 315.0 Ragusa Ibla 300  m slm 325.8 Modica 298  m slm 335.5 Scicli 95  m slm 345.8 Sampieri 54  m slm 355.7 Pozzallo 17  m slm 364.1 365.6 Ispica 73  m slm 359.9 Rosolini 109  m slm A18 352.6 San Paolo PV until 2002 35  m slm A18 344.4 Noto 65  m slm former route to Pachino until 1986 A18 337.9 Avola 54  m slm 328.8 Cassibile PV until 2002 29  m slm 326.7 Fontane Bianche since 2008 321.2 Santa Teresa Longarini PV until 2004 16  m slm former Siracusa – Ragusa line until 1956 Messina route since 1998 Siracusa Marittima 312.2 Siracusa 4  m slm former route to Messina until 1998

The Caltanissetta – Gela – Syracuse railway is a railway line in Sicily . It was built from 1886-1893 according to the Baccarini law .

history

Opening date	Route section
0April 5, 1886	Syracuse - Noto
March 29, 1891	Gela - Licata
December 23, 1891	Noto - Modica
March 14, 1893	Comiso - Gel
June 18, 1893	Modica-Comiso

particularities

Pozzallo

There is a spiral tunnel between the Ragusa and Ragusa Ibla train stations to overcome the considerable difference in height between the two train stations. It is the only spiral tunnel in the world underneath an urban development.

The train station of Pozzallo has been setting the railroad Noto-Pachino of southern Italy.

Picture gallery

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  Ragusa Ibla train station

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  Ragusa train station

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  the eastern end of the route, Siracusa station

literature

• Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, Fascicolo linea 159
• Piero Muscolino: Le ferrovie della Sicilia sud-orientale (= Trasporti su rotaia 3). Calosci, Cortona 1979.
• Romualdo Giuffrida: Lo Stato e le ferrovie in Sicilia. (1860–1895) (= Storia economica di Sicilia. Vol. 8). Sciascia Editore, Caltanissetta et al. 1967.
• Giuseppe Barone: Le vie del Mezzogiorno. Storia e Scenari. Donzelli, Roma 2002, ISBN 88-7989-684-9 .
• Federico Squarzina: Produzione e commercio dello zolfo in Sicilia nel secolo XIX (= Archivio economico dell'unificazione italiana. Ser. 2, Vol. 7, ZDB -ID 609094-1 ). Industria Libraria Tipografica Editrice, Torino 1963.

Web links

Commons : Caltanissetta Xirbi – Gela – Syracuse railway  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 246 (March 2003), p. 8.
2. ^ Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 267 (February 2005), pp. 6-7.
3. ↑ Table B, Number 18 //it.wikisource.org/
4. ↑ 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
5. ^ Railway Atlas of Italy and Slovenia . Schweers and Wall. Aachen 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1 , p. 111; Tim Parks: Italy to the fullest . Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-88897-971-2 , pp. 241–244.