Caserta – Foggia railway line

Caserta-Foggia
Caserta train station
Route number (RFI) :	126
Course book series (IT) :	81 (Caserta – Foggia) 320 (Naples – Caserta)
Route length:	163 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3 KV  =
Maximum slope :	23  ‰
Dual track :	between Ponte - Casalduni and Apice
Legend 197.540 Napoli Centrale to Salerno to Rome A56 188,551 Casoria - Afragola Casoria (old train station) 183.819 Frattamaggiore - Grumo Nevano 182.114 Sant'Antimo - Sant'Arpino New route from 1928 178.320 Aversa to Rome from Rome 174.670 Gricignano - Teverola 168.941 Marcianise until 2004 station 165.720 Recale A1 from Rome 163,400 0.000 Caserta to Cancello and Naples 7,599 Maddaloni Superiore 12,732 Valle di Maddaloni 19,172 Frasso - Dugenta 26,137 Amorosi - Melizzano 30,612 Telese - Cerreto after Telese Bagni 34,752 Solopaca 42,585 San Lorenzo 46,838 Ponte- Casalduni Galleria Mascambroni (3465 m) Vitulano - Foglianise 56,320 Vitulano 57.006 Galleria San Vitale (4164 m) 61,170 by Cancello 62,342 Benevento to Salerno and Campobasso 68,671 Paduli 75,520 Galleria Apice 75,642 Apice 80.712 Corsano 89,498 Montecalvo 92.276 Galleria Cristina (1433 m) 93,709 94,069 Castelfranco Galleria Starza (2600 m) 100,746 Ariano Irpino 102.012 Galleria Ariano (3205 m) 105,325 Pianerottolo d'Ariano 111.033 Savignano 117,324 Montaguto - Panni 121.171 Orsara 123.271 Galleria Colle Lamia 130.033 Bovino - Deliceto 136,862 Troy - Castelluccio Sauri 146.950 Ponte Albanito from Potenza 154,753 Cervaro from and to Bari by Manfredonia 163,400 Foggia to Pescara

The Caserta – Foggia railway is an Italian railway that connects the provincial towns of Caserta in Campania and Foggia in Apulia . It is operated by the Italian state railway company Ferrovie dello Stato and is considered the main traffic axis between the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy.

history

construction

The concession for the construction and operation of the railway line was granted by parliamentary resolution of August 21, 1862 .
At first, however, financial problems stood in the way of implementation and it took five years before the first section between Bovino and Foggia could be handed over to its destination on January 27, 1867.
On May 26, 1870, the last section between Santo Spirito and Starza was continuously passable in seven further sections .

section	release
Bovino - Foggia	January 27, 1867
Caserta - Casalduni	March 15, 1868
Casalduni - Benevento	April 18, 1868
Benevento - Santo Spirito	August 1, 1868
Savignano- Bovino	August 1, 1868
Starza - piano rottolo	March 25, 1869
Savignano – Pianerottolo	June 12, 1869
Santo Spirito-Starza	May 26, 1870
Branch Telese – Telese Bagni	July 15, 1883

expansion

electrification

The Benevento – Foggia railway was the first line to be electrified with the 3000 volts direct current that is still common today . The overhead lines were installed between 1923 and 1928. As a result, the state railroad used the E.626 electric locomotive, which was newly designed for freight and passenger traffic . The electrification was continued in Naples until 1931 .

Dual track

Work on a second track began in the 1990s. On December 3, 1997, a partially new double-track line was inaugurated between the Ponte - Casalduni station and Apice , which replaced the previous, heavily winding line. The Vitulano - Foglianise station has been replaced by the new Vitulano station. The rest of the route is single-track.

future

In the next few years, the line is to be expanded to double tracks and upgraded for high-speed traffic. In particular, it is intended to serve as a connection for TEN project No. 1 , the Berlin - Palermo railway axis , as a connection to the Pan-European Transport Corridor VIII .

The second track between Cervaro and Bovino was put into operation at the end of June 2017; this section is the first section of the line to be double-tracked and passable at speeds of up to 200 km / h. The contracts for the eastern sections Naples – Cancello and Cancello – Frasso Telesino have already been awarded; work on these sections should be completed by 2022. From 2019, the expansion work on the entire route should have started.

proof

1. ^ Impianti FS. In: I Treni No. 264 (November 2004), p. 5.
2. ↑ Rete in esercizio ( Italian ) RFI.it. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 13, 2010. 
3. ↑ Chronological listing of the opening of sections of the Italian railway from 1839 to December 31, 1926 ( Italian ) Trenidicarta.it. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
4. ↑ Chronological listing of the opening of sections of the Italian railway from 1839 to December 31, 1926 ( Italian ) Trenidicarta.it. Retrieved September 13, 2010.
5. ^ Napoli - Bari, inaugurato il raddoppio Cervaro - Bovino web portal Ferrovie.it - ​​News. Retrieved June 29, 2017.

Web links

Commons : Caserta – Foggia railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description and pictures of the railway line at http://www.lestradeferrate.it/