Catania – Aragona Caldare railway line

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Catania – Aragona Caldare
Route at Imera
Route at Imera
Line of the Catania – Aragona Caldare railway line
Route number (RFI) : 155
Course book series (IT) : 377 (Catania – Caltanissetta)
378 (Caltanissetta – Agrigento)
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 3 kV  =
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Route from Messina
Station, station
 240.7 Catania Centrale
   
 Archi della Marina
tunnel
 Acquicella tunnel
Station, station
 237.8 Catania Acquicella
Station, station
 233.4 Bicocca
   
 Route to Syracuse
Station without passenger traffic
 228.8 San Martino Piana until 2002 PV 27  m slm
Station without passenger traffic
 223.0 Motta Sant'Anastasia 31  m slm
   
 former route to Regalbuto
   
 Simeto
   
 Simeto
Station without passenger traffic
 218.4 Portiere Stella until 2002 PV 31  m slm
Station without passenger traffic
 213.6 Gerbini until 2002 PV 61  m slm
Station without passenger traffic
 207.8 Sferro until 2002 PV 75  m slm
   
 Muglia until 2002 PV 105  m slm
Road bridge
 A19
Station, station
 196.0 Catenanuova - Centuripe 141  m slm
Station without passenger traffic
 190.6 Sparagogna until 2002 PV 168  m slm
   
 Dittaino
Road bridge
 A19
Station without passenger traffic
 185.5 Libertinia until 2002 PV 185  m slm
Station without passenger traffic
 178.3 Raddusa - Agira until 2002 PV 222  m slm
Station, station
 172.5 Dittaino former transition to Leonforte and Caltagirone 255  m slm
   
 Dittaino
Road bridge
 A19
   
 Sparagia
Station, station
 163.1 Leonforte Pirato 332  m slm
Road bridge
 A19
   
 156.5 Scarlata 439  m slm
Station, station
 152.0 Enna 586  m slm
   
 Seggio
Station, station
 141.1 Villarosa 359  m slm
Station without passenger traffic
 132.5 Imera until 2002 PV 301  m slm
Station, station
 125.8 Caltanissetta Xirbi 409  m slm
   
 Route to Lercara Diramazione
Station, station
 132.1 Caltanissetta Centrale 536  m slm
Station, station
 138.7 San Cataldo 511  m slm
Station, station
 151.1 Serradifalco 487  m slm
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161.0
154.2
Canicattì transition to Naro until 1958 463  m slm
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Route to Syracuse
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Station without passenger traffic
 145.0 Castrofilippo until 2002 PV 500  m slm
Station, station
 136.9 Racalmuto 505  m slm
Station, station
 134.5 grotto 502  m slm
Station without passenger traffic
 129.7 Comitini Zolfare until 2002 PV 425  m slm
   
 Route from Palermo
Station, station
 124.7 Aragona Caldare 335  m slm
Route - straight ahead
 Route to Agrigento / Porto Empodocle

The Catania – Aragona Caldare railway is a railway line in Sicily . It was built to connect the Sicilian sulfur mining areas with the port cities of Catania and Agrigento .

history

Caltanissetta Centrale station building .
Opening date Route section
May 15, 1870 Bicocca - Catenanuova
June 27, 1870 Catenanuova– Raddusa
August 15, 1870 Raddusa - Leonforte Pirato
0February 1, 1876 Leonforte Pirato - Villarosa
0March 1, 1876 Villarosa - Caltanissetta Xirbi
September 24, 1876 Caltanissetta Centrale - Canicattì
0April 8, 1878 Caltanissetta Xirbi – Caltanissetta Centrale
0November 3, 1880 Canicattì– Aragona Caldare

literature

  • Romualdo Giuffrida: Lo Stato e le ferrovie in Sicilia. (1860–1895) (= Storia economica di Sicilia. Vol. 8). Sciascia Editore, Caltanissetta et al. 1967.
  • Nico Molino: La rete FS a scartamento ridotto della Sicilia (= Linee ferroviarie. Vol. 3). Elledi, Turin 1985, ISBN 88-7649-037-X .
  • 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 : Catania – Aragona Caldare railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 246 (March 2003), p. 8.
  2. ↑ 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