Isili – Sorgono railway line

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Isili – Sorgono
Belvì-Aritzo station (1888)
Belvì-Aritzo station (1888)
Isili – Sorgono railway line
Route length: 83 km
Gauge : 950 mm ( Italian meter gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Railway line from Mandas
Station, station
 12.2 Isili 510  m slm
Stop, stop
 13.2 Isili Polisportiva
Station, station
 17.8 Sarcidano 411  m slm
   
 former route to Villacidro until 1956
Station, station
 21.9 Nurallao 457  m slm
Stop, stop
 28.8 Cignoni 589  m slm
Stop, stop
 30.4 Su Lau 611  m slm
Station, station
 36.8 Laconi 631  m slm
Stop, stop
 42.7 Funtanamela 746  m slm
Stop, stop
 46.9 Ortuabis 797  m slm
Station, station
 59.1 Meana Sardo 608  m slm
Tunnel - if there are several tunnels in a row
 Galleria S'Arcu (1000 m)
Station, station
 75.1 Belvì - Aritzo 634  m slm
Station, station
 79.7 Desulo - Tonara 563  m slm
End station - end of the line
 95.3 Sorgono 682  m slm

The Isili – Sorgono railway is a narrow-gauge branch line on the island of Sardinia in Italy . Only in the summer months from June to September there is passenger traffic under the name Trenino Verde .

history

simplified elevation profile of the route

The Sardinian railway company Strade Ferrate Secondarie della Sardegna began construction in 1888 and was able to start continuous traffic to Cagliari in December of the following year . In 1921 the newly founded railway company Ferrovie Complementari della Sardegna took over the traffic.

Towards the end of the last century, the financing of rail transport became increasingly problematic. Ferrovie della Sardegna has been operating the branch lines in Sardinia since 1989 , when a number of regular connections fell victim to the savings in 1997. Since then, only the Trenino Verde has been a tourist attraction in the summer months. The Sardinian government wants to completely stop operations for cost reasons ( as of 2014 ).

  • FCS 400 at Isili with Nuraghe Is Paras

  • Sardicano

  • Nurallao

  • FCS 400 on the viaduct near Belvi-Aritzo

  • Belvi-Aritzo

literature

  • Alessandro Boccone: Il Trenino Verde della Sardegna: da Mandas a Sorgono . Edisar Publishing House.
  • Alessandro Boccone: Il Trenino Verde della Sardegna: linea Arbatax-Mandas-Sorgono . Zonza Publishing House.
  • Elettrio Corda: Le contrastate vaporiere - 1864/1984: 120 anni di vicende delle strade ferrate sarde: dalle reali alle secondarie, dalle complementari alle statali . Chiarella, 1984
  • Fernando Pilia: Il trenino verde della Sardegna - Un secolo di storia tra pionieri, banditi, letterati e turisti . Silvana, ISBN 88-366-0474-9

Web links

Commons : Isili – Sorgono railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph Müller: The Trenino Verde threatens to stop . In: RailBusiness No. 35, 2014, p. 6.