Pedace – San Giovanni in Fiore railway line

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(Cosenza–) Pedace – San Giovanni in Fiore
Route in the winter Sila National Park near Camigliatello
Route in the winter Sila National Park near Camigliatello
Line of the Pedace – San Giovanni in Fiore railway
Route length: 67.084 km
Gauge : 950 mm ( Italian meter gauge )
Maximum slope : 60  ‰
Minimum radius : 100 m
Legend
               
from Cosenza
               
0.000 Pedace 417 m slm
               
to Catanzaro
               
Acquarota Viaduct (112 m)
               
4.064 Magli 547 m slm
               
5.496 Casole - Trenta 588 m slm
               
               
Screw tunnel
               
               
8.310 Pedace- Serra Pedace 675 m slm
               
9.483 Spezzano Piccolo 704 m slm
               
10,460 Spezzano della Sila 718 m slm
               
12.305 Celico 718 m slm
               
               
14.694 Rovito 720 m slm
               
17.948 Lappano 703 m slm
               
               
19.618 Altavilla
               
21.812 San Pietro in Guarano 700 m slm
               
Viaduct San Pietro in Guarano (68 m)
               
24,562 Redipiano 836 m slm
               
               
29,318 Santo Janni 1099 m slm
               
33.715 Fond duck 1336 m slm
               
Fondente tunnel (2185 m)
               
Piccirillo Viaduct (72 m)
               
37.174 Moccone 1299 m slm
               
Museum train
               
39,394 Camigliatello Silano 1271 m slm
               
Camigliati Viaduct (166 m)
               
43,087 Croce di Magara Borgo
               
44.101 Croce di Magara 1354 m slm
               
45,605 Sculcà 1339 m slm
               
47.727 Righio 1347 m slm
               
Righio Viaduct (92 m)
               
50.210 San Nicola-Silvana Mansio 1404 m slm
               
53.036 Vuturino 1356 m slm
               
55.197 Monteoliveto 1297 m slm
               
57.539 Vallepiccola 1336 m slm
               
60,081 Torre Garga 1335 m slm
               
Abbazia tunnel (208 m)
               
               
67.084 San Giovanni in Fiore 1048 m slm
Route Route profile Pedace – San Giovanni in Fiore.png in the winter Sila National Park near Camigliatello

The Pedace – San Giovanni in Fiore railway , also known as the Sila Railway, was a narrow-gauge railway with 950 mm gauge from Pedace to San Giovanni in Fiore in the southern Italian region of Calabria . The line was operated continuously from Cosenza on the Cosenza-Pedace-Catanzaro line to its end point at San Giovanni in Fiore.

history

Since 2010 only tourist trains have been running. Station Camigliatello Silano with a train of historic cars.

In 1911, the Mediterranea-Calabro-Lucane (MCL) commissioned the project for a narrow-gauge railway between Cosenza and Crotone . On October 11, 1922, the MCL was able to hand over the first section from Pedace to San Pietro in Guarano . On August 10, 1931, the continuation to Camigliatello Silano followed and only on May 6, 1956, the last section to San Giovanni in Fiore. The planned extension of the railway line from San Giovanni in Fiore to Petilia Policastro was never realized.

After the accident on the Fiumarella Viaduct on December 23, 1961, the MCL authorities withdrew the concession and in 1964 the operation was handed over to Ferrovie Calabro Lucane (FCL). At the beginning of 1991, the fragmented network of the FCL was split up. The network starting in Bari came to the Ferrovie Appulo Lucane (FAL), the routes from Cosenza and Gioia Tauro to the Ferrovie della Calabria (FC).

In 1997, rail operations on the Camigliatello Silano – San Giovanni in Fiore section, in 2008 between Spezzano and Camigliatello and in 2010 on the rest of the route, were suspended. Museum trains run between Moccone and San Nicola-Silvana Mansio on weekends.

Route description

As an adhesion railway between Pedace and the culmination point in San Nicola-Silvana Mansio, the highest train station in Italy, the line overcame a difference in altitude of around 1000 meters. In addition to gradients of up to 60 per thousand, various engineering structures were necessary:

  • After the Casole - Trenta station, there is a roundabout to overcome 100 meters in altitude.

  • The San Pietro viaduct in Guarano, located in an arc, is one of the town's landmarks.

  • The 166 meter long Camigliati Viaduct shortly after Camigliatello Silano is the longest bridge on the route.

swell

  • Georg Brunold: Building a House. You only meet returnees in Calabria, they were all in Switzerland. However, this does not mean that all emigrants will return. Journal Du No. 722, Tamedia Zurich, December 2001 and January 2002, page 45
  • Giulio Grilletta: La ferrovia Crotone – Petilia Policastro The Crotone – Petilia Policastro railway. In: Mondo ferroviario, No. 157, Desenzano , Verlag del Garda, pp. 28–31 (Italian)
  • Pietro Marra, Calabro Lucane: Piccole ferrovie tra Puglia, Basilicata e Calabria. Small railway between Puglia, Basilicata and Calabria. Bagnacavallo , PGM Publishing House, 2016, ISBN 978-88-909824-1-5 (Italian)
  • Treno della Sila. Website of the museum railway company, accessed on December 15, 2017 (Italian)

Web links

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