Cosenza – Catanzaro railway line

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Cosenza-Catanzaro
Line of the Cosenza – Catanzaro railway line
Route profile: blue: adhesion sections, red: rack
Route length: 112.5 km
Gauge : 950 mm ( Italian meter gauge )
Maximum slope : Adhesion 35 
rack 100 
Rack system : Strub
            
from Paola and from Sibari
            
            
2,650 Cosenza also Cosenza Vaglio Lise, since 1989 202 m slm
            
1.936 Cosenza Monaco since 1989 208 m slm
            
0.966 Cosenza Campanella since 1989 219 m slm
            
0.000 Cosenza Centro since 1989, previously Cosenza 232 m slm
            
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Crati bridge
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Tribunali tunnel (415 m)
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Vallone di Rovito
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1.153 Cosenza Casali 252 m slm
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3,784 Bosco 325 m slm
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Catena tunnel (674 m)
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7.116 Pedace 417 m slm
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to San Giovanni in Fiore (museum train)
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Pietrafitta tunnel (1611 m)
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9.138 Pietrafitta 455 m slm
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10.909 Aprigliano 507 m slm
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Crati bridge
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13.610 Piane Crati 584 m slm
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14.672 Figline - Cellara 604 m slm
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17.808 Mangon 629 m slm
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19.039 Piano Lago 622 m slm
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20.689 Santo Stefano 617 m slm
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23.240 Rogliano 640 m slm
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24.103 Rogliano Serra
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27.228 Marzi 526 m slm
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31,419 Parenti 432 m slm
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36,498 Carpanzano 578 m slm
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41,047 Scigliano- Pedivigliano 643 m slm
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44.916 Celsita since 1947 718 m slm
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47.110 Coraci 779 m slm
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49.650 Colosimi 839 m slm
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52,360 Bianchi 854 m slm
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54.907 Vaccarizzo 829 m slm
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Viaduct Vaccarizzo (119 m)
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58.725 Soveria Mannelli 756 m slm
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60.673 Adami 753 m slm
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63,414 San Bernardo 764 m slm
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65.064 Decollatura 739 m slm
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69.753 Santa Margherita di Calabria 702 m slm
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72.359 Serrastretta -Carlopoli 711 m slm
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77.267 San Pietro Apostolo 602 m slm
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Corace Bridge
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80.228 Cicala 557 m slm
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81.932 Madonna di Porto until the 1980s Sorbo - Fossato 540 m slm
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Porto tunnel (1949 m)
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85.051 Gimigliano 502 m slm
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Melito Viaduct (95 m)
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88,924 Cavorà 539 m slm
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92.991 Madonna del Pozzo since 1940 446 m slm
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94.216 Gagliano 407 m slm
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Fiumarella Viaduct (106 m)
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98.704 Catanzaro Città 338 m slm
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99.145 Catanzaro Piazza Matteotti 326 m slm
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99.450 Catanzaro Pratica 318 m slm
            
99.511 Start of rack section
            
from Lamezia Terme (until 2008)
            
101.507 End of rack section
            
Pontegrande tram (until 1954)
            
101.576 Catanzaro also Catanzaro Sala 145 m slm
            
Rail connection cement works
            
Musofalo Bridge
            
102.812 Dulcino 110 m slm
            
104.625 Santa Maria Santa Maria di Catanzaro (RFI) until 2008 80 m slm
            
106.120 Pistoia 59 m slm
            
Chiattine 1949–199?
            
107.195 Corvo Aranceto since 199? 46 m slm
            
108.018 Aranceto 34 m slm
            
Fiumarella bridge
            
from Taranto
            
109.825 Catanzaro Lido 10 m slm
            
to Lamezia Terme (new route)
            
to Reggio di Calabria

The Cosenza – Catanzaro line is operated by Ferrovie della Calabria (FC), a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 950 mm and mixed adhesion and cogwheel operation from Cosenza to Catanzaro in the southern Italian region of Calabria .

history

In 1961, a fully occupied railroad car fell off the Fiumarella Viaduct.

Before the construction of the Salerno – Reggio di Calabria railway line , the Italian legislature envisaged a standard gauge connection between Cosenza and Nocera Terinese in the province of Catanzaro. In 1895 the first part from Cosenza to Pietrafitta was already being worked on, but construction had to be stopped due to a lack of financial means. At the beginning of the new century, the previous construction plan for the Calabrian railway network was revised. On October 9, 1916, the Mediterranea-Calabro-Lucane (MCL) opened the gate from Cosenza to Rogliano . On October 11, 1922, the first section of the now discontinued branch line from Pedace to San Giovanni in Fiore and the section to Soveria Mannelli was put into service. On March 30, 1924, the section to Decollatura followed . On June 18, 1934, the narrow-gauge railway was finally passable all the way to Catanzaro Città. A year earlier, on July 10, 1933, the city was connected to the port of Catanzaro Lido, for which racks from the Strub system are used.

The former train station in Cosenza

Until the time after the Second World War, the narrow-gauge railway enjoyed good demand, especially in suburban traffic from Cosenza and Catanzaro. At the end of the 1950s, traffic decreased, to which the outstanding modernization and neglected maintenance also contributed. This was also the reason for the serious accident on the Fiumarella Viaduct on December 23, 1961, in which 71 people lost their lives. As a result, the railway between Soveria Mannelli and Catanzaro was replaced by a bus line and the authorities withdrew the MCL's license. The railway was operated from January 1, 1964 by Ferrovie Calabro Lucane (FCL).

On December 16, 1989, the new double-track extension to the new Cosenza train station in the north of the city was put into operation to improve the development of the city center. The old station was named Cosenza Centro.

At the beginning of 1991, the fragmented network of the FCL was split up. The network starting in Bari came to the Ferrovie Appulo-Lucane (FAL), the routes from Cosenza and Gioia Tauro to the Ferrovie della Calabria (FC). Today the route described here is, along with some bus routes, the only route operated by the FC on a regular basis.

Route description

The 112.5 km long route is rich in engineering structures such as tunnels and viaducts. The mountainous terrain forced a winding route. The route crosses some landslide-prone slopes that sometimes lead to interruptions in the route. However, the gradients do not exceed 35 per thousand, except in the 1996 meter long rack section between Catanzaro Pratica and Catanzaro Sala, where the gradient is 100 per thousand. Together with the Sassi – Superga cog railway in Turin, it is the only remaining railway with a Strub rack in Italy.

Depots are in Cosenza and Catanzaro Città, the workshop is in Cosenza.

business

Train consisting of four railcars with M4c.355 at the top in Catanzaro Città. Many Ferrovie della Calabria (FC) vehicles are sprayed with graffiti.

Traffic is mainly concentrated on the two agglomerations at the start and end of the route. On the Cosenza – Cosenza Centro and Catanzaro Città – Catanzaro Lido sections, the line is operated as an S-Bahn ( Italian : Servizio ferroviario urbano) with connections every half hour. The timetable in Cosenza is condensed during rush hour. There are no scheduled trains between Marzi and Soveria Mannelli.

During the Madonna di Porto festival in Gimigliano on Whitsun , the FC run special trains with up to four railcars from Catanzaro Città and Soveria Mannelli to the Madonna di Porto stop.

Traction vehicles

On equipped with rack portion of Catanzaro Citta according Catanzaro carrying Stadler EMUs DE M4c.500 the brunt of the traffic.
The M4.407 adhesion
railcar is ready in Catanzaro Città to depart for Gimigliano .

The following locomotives were or are used on the Cosenza – Catanzaro route:

Railcars and multiple units

Some of the railcars are designed as pure adhesion vehicles . Railcars with rack drive have the letter c (Cremagliera, German rack) in the designation.

   railcars M1 and M1c
   railcars M2.120 and M2.200
   railcars M4 and M4c
   Multiple Units DE M4c.500

Diesel locomotives
   Adhäsionslokomotiven LM4
   Zahnradlokomotiven LM2.700

Steam locomotives
   Adhesion  locomotives class 350
 ● rack locomotives class 500

literature

  • Riccardo Giraldi: Il popolo cosentino e il suo territorio. The population of Cosenza and their territory. Cosenza, Publishing House Luigi Pellegrini, 2003 (Italian)
  • Storia. History. Homepage of Ferrovie della Calabria, accessed on December 15, 2017 (Italian)
  • Bibliografia Ferroviaria Italiana. Italian railway bibliography . Chronological overview of the railway lines opened from 1839 to December 31, 1926, February 6, 2014 (Italian)

Web links

Commons : Cosenza-Catanzaro Lido railway  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Addio alle linee taurensi? Farewell Tauro Lines? , In: I Treni No. 339, Verlag ETR, July 2011, p. 9
  2. Southern Italian SLM push locomotives are being converted. In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 7/2010. Minirex, ISSN  1022-7113 , p. 362.
  3. Orari Servizio Ferroviario draft Catanzaro | Cosenza | Gioia Tauro train timetables on the Ferrovie della Calabria homepage, accessed on December 15, 2017 (Italian)