Giarratana – Vizzini railway line

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Bivio Giarratana – Vizzini Scalo
Line of the Giarratana – Vizzini railway line
Route length: 27.4 km
Gauge : 950 mm ( Italian meter gauge )
Legend
   
 of Syracuse
   
 0.0 Bivio Giarratana 602  m slm
   
 to Ragusa
   
 3.6 Monterosso Almo 672  m slm
   
 7.3 Alia 742  m slm
   
 15.2 Buccheri 716  m slm
   
 22.7 Vizzini 600  m slm
   
 27.4 Vizzini Scalo ( transition to FS ) 578  m slm

The Giarratana – Vizzini railway was a narrow-gauge railway in Sicily operated by SAFS . It connected Giarratana on the Syracuse – Ragusa railway via Vizzini with the remote standard gauge station of Vizzini on the Lentini Diramazione – Caltagirone – Gela railway .

It opened in 1923. After the Second World War it was closed in 1949.

literature

  • Piero Muscolino: Le ferrovie della Sicilia sud-orientale (= Trasporti su rotaia 3). Calosci, Cortona 1979.