Railway Tirso – Chilivani

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Tirso – Chilivani
Section of the Tirso – Chilivani railway line
Route length: 78.8 km
Gauge : 950 mm ( Italian meter gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Nuoro railway line
Station, station
 0.0 Tirso 218  m slm
   
 Railway line to Macomer
   
 4.8 Illorai 302  m slm
   
 9.9 Burgos - Esporlatu 354  m slm
   
 11.7 Bottidda 359  m slm
   
 16.4 Bono 450  m slm
   
 21.0 Anela 397  m slm
   
 24.4 Bultei 405  m slm
   
 31.9 Benetutti - Nule 322  m slm
   
 41.7 Osidda 583  m slm
   
 48.4 Buddusò 631  m slm
   
 55.2 Pattada 676  m slm
   
 66.5 Vigne 468  m slm
   
 69.5 Ozieri 415  m slm
   
 78.8 Chilivani former transition to FS 226  m slm

The Tirso – Chilivani railway , also known in Italian as Ferrovia del Tirso (Tirso Railway), was a narrow-gauge branch line in Sardinia . The railway line, which opened in 1893, has been closed since 1969 and is now largely dismantled. She mated with Chilivani the standard gauge state railway -distance railway line Cagliari-Golfo Aranci with the equally narrow gauge track Macomer-Nuoro (in the Macomer-Bosa temporarily) at the station Tirso, not far from the river Tirso .

history

The Società italiana per le Strade Ferrate Secondarie della Sardegna (SFSS) , a private railway company founded in 1886 by several entrepreneurs , was able to take the first part of the 950-millimeter narrow-gauge line, like the other branch lines in Sardinia , on February 10, 1891 ( Italian meter gauge ) to open the nine-kilometer railway line from Ozieri to Chilivani . The remaining seventy kilometers from Ozieri to Tirso train station (not far from the Tirso River and five kilometers from Illorai ) were ceremoniously opened to traffic on April 1, 1893. The first fleet of vehicles largely corresponded to the SFSS standard with small tenders built by SLM in Winterthur - steam locomotives with a 1'C wheel arrangement and Allan controls, as well as small, simple two-axle passenger and freight cars .

The Tirso – Chilivani railway was characterized by a route with numerous tight curves and a few tight hairpin bends , which did not allow high speeds, especially for steam trains. As is customary otherwise in Sardinian narrow gauge railways, were also a number of signalman houses along the route, where many stations just outside the villages were. She had since connection was the character of a junction line at both ends to other railway lines: In Chilivani (now Station Ozieri Chilivani ) for standard- state railway -distance Cagliari-Golfo Aranci (and here also branching Chilivani-Porto Torres Marittima ) and in Tirso to the further narrow-gauge Macomer-Nuoro line , which merges seamlessly into the Macomer-Bosa .

After the SIMS were in financial difficulties in 1921 and had been dissolved, who took over Ferrovie Complementari della Sardegna (FCS) traffic and sat quite early FIAT - DMUs type Littorina in the small version one, which reduced travel times considerably. However, some of the steam locomotives, which were now aging, remained in reserve with some passenger and freight cars until the end of the 1950s. But even a completely new series of modern ADe diesel-electric multiple units from 1958 to 1960 could not prevent buses from being cheaper and faster. On December 31, 1969, the FCS received approval to shut down the route and was released from the traffic obligation.

Even after this line was closed and the tracks were largely dismantled in the 1980s, a number of railway relics such as numerous parked vehicles at Tirso, the station building as well as a water crane and the viaduct at Buddusò remained. The typical gatekeeper houses along the route are also still there, but in many cases they have already fallen into disrepair.

gallery

  • The Buddusò train station with a water crane

  • The viaduct at Buddusò

  • Tirso train station with the no longer used connection to Chilivani (left)

  • Parked diesel railcar of the type Littorina in Tirso

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

See also

Web links

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