Rocchette – Arsiero railway line
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| Route length: | Up to 1933: 8.110 km From 1933: 7.706 km |
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| Gauge : | Up to 1933: 950 mm From 1933: 1435 mm |
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The Rocchette – Arsiero railway was an approximately 8 km long railway line in Italy, which was opened in sections in 1885–1907 and closed in 1964 . It was with a track width of 950 mm ( narrow gauge built) and 1435 mm (1933 standard gauge ) umgespurt .
Route
The route ran from Rocchette via Velo d'Astico -Seghe to Arsiero .
history
The textile industry in the northwestern hinterland of Vicenza , which grew rapidly towards the end of the 19th century , made the construction of new road and rail connections indispensable. The construction of new traffic routes in the region was promoted by the textile entrepreneur Alessandro Rossi from Schio, one of the most important industrialists in the Kingdom of Italy , who promoted and financed the construction of the textile factories in Torrebelvicino, Piovene Rocchette, Arsiero and Schio. Between 1884 and 1885, the various railway lines that connected the aforementioned places were opened for rail traffic, with Schio connecting to the existing line to Vicenza and via that to the important main line between Milan and Venice.
The line from Rocchette to Arsiero was built in narrow gauge. The route was opened on March 16, 1885 by the Società Anonima Ferrovie Economiche di Schio along the entire length. The Società Anonima Ferrovie Economiche di Schio was founded by local financiers and the Società Veneta (SV). It passed into the Società Ferrovie Nord Vicenza , and after its bankruptcy on November 30, 1925, it was officially taken over by the Società Veneta on November 14, 1929 with Royal Decree No. 2158 . In 1907 the Thiene – Rocchette standard gauge line was opened by the Società Veneta.
During the First World War , the line was used by the Italian army to supply the western and northern fronts. The Thiene and Chiuppano stations were expanded as loading stations. Side tracks were also laid between Chiuppano and Rocchette, on which French railway guns of the Canon de 320 mm mle 1870/93 type were brought into position in 1917 , which fire on the Austro-Hungarian lines during the Ortigara battle . As a result, the French guns were replaced by type 381/40 AVS rail guns produced by Ansaldo . For the aiming of the railway guns , several shooting curves were set up both on the side tracks and on the main line west of Chiuppano.
In 1931 it was decided to re-track the route on a new route to standard gauge, which shortened the route by almost one kilometer and eliminated disruptions to road traffic. The work lasted two years from 1931 to 1933 (inauguration on October 29, 1933). The new stretch of the railway line still connected the Rocchette railway junction with the Arsiero station, but to remove level crossings at street level, three new tunnels and a viaduct were built in the local area of Piovene Rocchette and in the locality of S. Giorgio in the municipality Velo d'Astico an underpass no longer led through the hamlet of Seghe, but through the local area of Velo d'Astico. At the inauguration, a project for the onward journey from Arsiero to Trento or Rovereto was already planned.
From 1952 diesel powered railcars FS ALn 772 and later FS ALn 773 of Ferrovie dello Stato were used, which first supported and then replaced steam operation. At the same time there was also a road bus on the Schio-Piovene Rocchette-Arsiero route via Meda to Velo d'Astico-Velo d'Astico-Arsiero, which was also operated by the Società Veneta . Thereafter, no further modernization was carried out, so that on March 31, 1964, rail traffic together with the Thiene-Rocchette service was finally discontinued and replaced by motor vehicles, which were taken over by the Società Veneta SIAMIC ( Società Italiana Autoservizi Mediterranei in Concessione ) were operated.
On February 26, 1977, a law passed by parliament approved the final dismantling.
Narrow gauge rail vehicles
Locomotives of various origins and designs were used for the steam operation of the narrow-gauge railway:
- 0-4-0 steam locomotives from Cerimedo & C.
- 0-4-0 steam locomotives from Henschel & Sohn
- 0-6-0 steam locomotives from Krauss
Standard gauge rail vehicles
- 0-6-0T steam locomotives T3 from Henschel T3
- Diesel locomotives Ldn 602 from Deutz
- Diesel railcar:
- Breda ADn 550
- Officine Meccaniche FS ALn 772
- Officine Meccaniche FS ALn 773
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ferrovie tape sonata: Ferrovia Thiene - Piovene Rocchette - Arsiero.
- ^ Elisa Mariani-Travi and Leonardo Mariani-Travi: Il paesaggio italiano della rivoluzione industriale, Editrice Dedalo, 1979.
- ↑ Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926
- ↑ Giovanni Cornolò and Giovanni Villan (ed. Ermanno Albertelli): Binari nel passato - La Società Veneta Ferrovie, Parma 1984th
- ^ Railway Atlas Italy and Slovenia , Schweers and Wall, 2010, p. 25.
- ↑ Roberto Celotta: Le Ferrovie dello Stato nella Grande Guerra . Alpini del DOMM. Notes from the Group of Milano Centro "Giulio Bedeschi" Sezione ANA Milano, Supplemento Anno V - Allegato al numero 4 - Luglio 2004, Milan 2004. pp. 6–8 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
