Filaga – Palazzo Adriano railway line
| Filaga-Palazzo Adriano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 13.8 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 950 mm ( Italian meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 75 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rack system : | Strub (between Prizzi and Sosio) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 30 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Filaga – Palazzo Adriano railway was a single-track, narrow - gauge railway in Sicily . The route led from Filaga on the Lercara – Magazzolo route for 13.8 km to Palazzo Adriano . The route, which is provided in sections with racks ( Strub system ), was opened between 1918 and 1920 and closed in 1959.
history
The Lercara – Magazzolo was primarily designed to connect the sulfur pits along the route to the rest of the route network. However, this route led past the locally not insignificant centers of Prizzi and Palazzo Adriano at a certain distance , so that it was obvious to develop these two villages with a branch line. The first section from Filaga to Prizzi was opened on March 16, 1918; the entire line was opened on August 21, 1920.
In the 1950s it took a train over an hour to travel the 13.7 kilometers from Filaga to Palazzo Adriano, which corresponds to an average speed of around 13 kilometers per hour. This meant that the railway was not competitive with the road. Rail traffic on the heavily deficit route was therefore stopped on October 1, 1959 - at the same time as on the Lercara – Magazzolo route.
business
The line was operated by the FS ; the section from Prizzi to Sosio was the longest rack section of the FS in Sicily. The entire operation was carried out with steam locomotives, which, however, only allowed a maximum speed of 30 km / h.
literature
- Alfredo Alabiso: Posta per Ferrovia in Sicilia , Palermo 1994, p. 133.
- Railway Atlas Italy and Slovenia , Schweers + Wall, 2010, p. 101.
Individual evidence
- ^ Alfredo Alabiso: Posta per Ferrovia in Sicilia , Palermo 1994, p. 132
- ^ Francesco Ogliari, Storia dei trasporti italiani, Dilettoso viaggio (Sicilia), 1977, p. 992 ff.
Web links
- Ferrovie bandonate
- Maurizio Crispi: La tratta ferroviaria Filaga-Prizzi-Palazzo Adriano, tra i racconti di mio padre ei miei ricordi infantili
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S-Bahn systems ( standard gauge , 1,435 mm), in operation: Palermo
Railway lines ( Italian meter gauge, 950 mm), in operation: Ferrovia Circumetnea
Railway lines ( standard gauge , 1,435 mm), discontinued: Alcantara – Randazzo | Motta Sant'Anastasia – Regalbuto | Noto-Pachino
Railway lines ( Italian meter gauge, 950 mm), discontinued: Agrigento – Licata | Canicattì – Margonia | Castelvetrano – San Carlo – Burgio | Castelvetrano – Porto Empedocle | Dittaino – Caltagirone | Dittaino – Leonforte | Filaga – Palazzo Adriano | Giarratana – Vizzini | Lecara – Magazzolo | Palermo – San Carlo | Santa Ninfa – Salemi | Syracuse – Ragusa | Messina – Barcellona regional tram | Overland tram Catania – Acireale
Railway lines ( Italian meter gauge, 950 mm), unfinished: Palermo – Salaparuta | Salemi – Kaggera