Messina – Syracuse railway line

Messina – Syracuse
Intercity to Syracuse near Furci
Route number (RFI) :	152
Course book series (IT) :	97
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3 kV  =
Dual track :	Messina - Giampilieri Giarre - Catania Ognina Catania Acquicella - Bicocca Targia - Siracusa
Legend Traject from Villa San Giovanni Messina Marittima 335.5 Messina Centrale 334.0 Messina Scalo Route to Fiumetorto 332.4 Fiumara Gazzi since 2008 331.0 Contesse 329.5 Tremestieri 327.7 Mili Marina since 2008 325.3 Galati 324.3 Ponte Santo Stefano since 2008 322.4 Ponte Schiavo since 2008 321.2 San Paolo since 2008 320.1 Giampilieri 317.7 Scaletta Zanclea 311.7 Alì Terme 308.9 Nice di Sicilia 307.0 Roccalumera - Mandanici 305.6 Furci 303.3 Santa Teresa di Riva 300.2 Sant'Alessio Siculo - Forza d'Agrò 293.4 Letojanni 288.5 Taormina - Giardini 284.2 Alcantara former route to Randazzo until 1994 Alcantara 281.8 Calatabiano station until 2006 278.7 Fiumefreddo di Sicilia former route until 1928 273.9 Mascali 270.5 Giarre - Riposto transition to the FCE Catania Porto – Riposto railway line 265.6 Carruba 263.7 Tunnel grotto (1,185 m) 261.7 Guardia-Mangano- Santa Venerina 259.4 Acireale Tunnel (2,672 m) Acireale until 1989 253.8 Acireale since 1989 former route until 1989 251.4 Vampolieri tunnel (2,626 m) Aci Trezza until 1989 Aci Castello until 1989 246.5 Cannizzaro 246.0 Cannizzaro tunnel (1,261 m) 244.4 Catania Ognina until 2017 former route until 2017 243.5 Catania Ognina since 2017 243.3 Ognina tunnel (1,340 m) 242.6 Catania Picanello since 2017 242.6 Catania Europe since 2017 Former route Catania Porto – Riposto 240.7 Catania Centrale transition to Archi della Marina Acquicella tunnel 237.8 Catania Acquicella 233.4 Bicocca Route to Aragona Caldare 241.1 Passomartino until 2002 PV 246.5 Valsavoia tunnel (1,519 m) 248.8 Lentini Diramazione until 2019 PV Route to Gela 254.4 Lentini A18 263.5 Agnone di Siracusa 266.0 Agnone Bagni 269.0 Castelluccio Siculo until 2002 PV, closed in 2004 275.0 Brucoli until 2004 PV 281.9 Augusta 289.0 Marcellino 291.0 Megara Giannalena until 2009 295.2 Priolo- Melilli 302.2 Targia since 1938 former route until 1998 303.2 Epipoli tunnel (3,435 m) 305.2 Santa Panagia until 1980 308.8 Siracusa 313.9 Siracusa Marittima until 2004 Route to Canicattì ↑ old station 1867-1989

The Messina – Syracuse railway is one of the oldest and most important railway lines in Sicily . It was built from 1866 to 1871 by the Società Vittorio Emanuele .

history

Opening date	Route section
December 12, 1866	Messina - Giardini - Taormina
0January 3, 1867	Giardini-Taormina - Catania
0July 1, 1869	Catania - Lentini
January 19, 1871	Lentini - Siracusa

The main train station in Messina

The railway line between Messina and Syracuse was opened in several stages. Traffic between the port city of Messina and today's tourist metropolis Taormina was opened as early as December 12, 1866 , with the train station located between the two cities Taormina and Giardini-Naxos . The second section to the city of Catania followed on January 3, 1867. The construction to Syracuse did not progress quite as fast: Lentini station was only reached two and a half years later (July 1, 1869) and it was not until January 19, 1871 that the Rail traffic opened on the entire route. After the Second World War , the line was electrified and partially expanded and re-routed to two tracks.

In addition to regional trains, some of which are hauled by locomotives and some of which run as three-part railcars, long-distance trains to northern Italy also begin in Syracuse . B. Milan or Venice . Since the trains between Messina and Villa San Giovanni trajektiert be, travel times are achieved more than twenty hours.

Between Messina Centrale and Giampilieri, an additional S-Bahn-like train service under the name Metroferrovia di Messina was set up on a trial basis in 2009 . The offer was temporarily discontinued in the following years due to financial problems, sometimes operated on a reduced scale. In particular, the lack of tariff integration with inner-city public transport meant that the corresponding demand did not materialize. As of March 2019, only seven train pairs were running in irregular succession.

Picture gallery

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  Route of the railway line at Isola Bella in Taormina

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  Taormina Station - Giardini

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  Acireale train station

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  Catania Central Station

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  The southern terminus of Siracusa

literature

• Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, Fascicolo linea 152
• Giuseppe Barone: Le vie del Mezzogiorno. Donzelli, Roma 2002, ISBN 88-7989-684-9 .

Web links

Commons : Messina – Syracuse railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 286 (October 2006), p. 6.
2. ^ Il raddoppio Fs “Stazione Ognina” di Catania in funzione da domenica 18 giugno. http://www.lasicilia.it , June 7, 2017, accessed October 13, 2017 (Italian). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 246 (March 2003), p. 8.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 267 (February 2005), pp. 6-7.
5. ^ Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 322 (January 2010), pp. 6-7.
6. ↑ Ordine di Servizio n.149 del 1938
7. ↑ Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926
8. ↑ www.tempostretto.it: Metroferrovia, Messina sta ferma e Trenitalia dimezza le corse , March 25, 2019 (Italian) , accessed on June 12, 2019