Monti – Tempio Pausania railway line

Monti – Tempio Pausania

Route length:

39.3 km

0.0	Monti (SFSS) transition to FS	290 m slm
4.4	Telti	384 m slm
6.8	Piras	438 m slm
14.8	Rifornitore	569 m slm
27.0	Calangianus SFSS
	Railway line from Palau
28.3	Luras	459 m slm
31.0	Nuchis	440 m slm

39.3	Tempio Pausania	546 m slm
	Tempio Pausania old Bf until 1930
	Railway line to Sassari

Monti SFSS train station

The Monti – Tempio Pausania railway was a narrow-gauge branch line in Sardinia . The railway line, which opened in 1888, was largely closed in 1958.

history

On February 15, 1888, the Strade Ferrate Secondarie della Sardegna (SFSS) began operating between Monti and Tempio Pausania. Three decades later, the SFSS had big problems, were dissolved in 1921 and the Ferrovie Complementari della Sardegna (FCS) took over the railroad traffic. Another railway company, the Società anonima Ferrovie Settentrionali Sarde (SFSS) , was able to open the branching lines Sassari - Tempio Pausania on November 16, 1931 and Luras - Palau on January 18, 1932 and take up the continuous traffic Sassari - Palau . Tempio had now become a railway junction with a new large station. However, this railway company was also out of luck and the Strade Ferrate Sarde (SFS) took over this service as early as 1933.

From 1941 the Monti – Tempio railway line and the Sassari – Alghero railway line were taken over by SFS. This created a uniform, narrow-gauge network in northern Sardinia. However, this could not stop the downturn and on July 21, 1958, the rail traffic from Monti to Tempio was stopped. Only a few kilometers between Luras and Tempio are still used today, meanwhile by Ferrovie della Sardegna (FdS), founded in 1989, in the excursion traffic of the Trenino Verde .

literature

Elettrio Corda: Le contrastate vaporiere - 1864/1984: 120 anni di vicende delle strade ferrate sarde: dalle reali alle secondarie, dalle complementari alle statali , Chiarella publishing house