Isili – Villacidro railway line

Isili-Villacidro

Route length:

70 km

	Railway line from Cagliari
0.0	Isili	510 m slm
5.6	Sarcidano	411 m slm
	Railway line to Sorgono
13.8	Nuragus	359 m slm
19.6	Gesturi	293 m slm
27.1	Barumini	203 m slm
30.6	Las Plassas	144 m slm
34.7	Villanovafranca	142 m slm
	former railway line from Ales
38.8	Villamar	107 m slm
45.1	Furtei	89 m slm
50.4	Sanluri	114 m slm
56.3	Sanluri Stato former transition to FS
69.6	Villacidro	217 m slm

The Isili – Villacidro railway was a narrow-gauge branch line in Sardinia . The railway line ran from the small town of Isili to Villacidro, 70 kilometers away .

history

Sarcidano branch station

The Sardinian railway company Ferrovie Complementari della Sardegna was able to start rail traffic between Isili and Villacidro on June 21, 1915. The line branched off at the small suburban train station Sarcidano from the Isili – Sorgono line of the Strade Ferrate Secondarie della Sardegna and headed west to Villacidro, where the Cagliari – Golfo Aranci line of the state Ferrovie dello Stato was crossed at the Sanluri Stato station .

In the middle of the last century, rail traffic became increasingly deficit, so that on July 1, 1956 - after almost exactly 41 years - the line was closed. The tracks have now been dismantled and since 1991 the old railway line has been partially converted into a cycle path.

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