Turin – Fossano – Savona railway line


0.00	Torino Porta Nuova	239 m
	from and to Milan
	from and to Frejus
4,318	Torino Lingotto
	to Pinerolo and Torre Pellice
	A6 Turin-Savona motorway
	Po
8,010	Moncalieri	228 m
13,030	Trofarello	233 m
	to Genoa and to Chieri
7.149	Villastellone	235 m
	A6 Turin – Savona motorway
15,499	Carmagnola	240 m
	to Bra
24,579	Racconigi	258 m
	from Moretta until 1959
31,628	Cavallermaggiore	282 m
	to Alessandria
38,384	Savigliano	311 m
	to Saluzzo
50,541 0	Fossano	355 m
	to Cuneo
	Stura di Demonte river
5,978	Trinità-Bene Vagienna	374 m
	A33 motorway
12,893	Magliano Alpi	400 m
	Pesio
	by Cuneo
18,985	Mondovì	414 m
	Ellero
	after Bastia Mondovì until 1986
	Mondovì tunnel (667 m)
21,594	Pobbia Tunnel (1126 m)
22,720
22,779	San Giovanni Tunnel (2804 m)
25,582
25,908	Vicoforte-San Michele	454 m
30,426	Lesegno	428 m
32,398	Lesegno Tunnel (1297 m)
33,695
	Tanaro
	from Bra to 1994
38,156 45,260	Ceva	387 m
	to Ormea
39,654	Sale Langhe	474 m
37,272	Belbo Tunnel (4366 m)
32,907
31,680	Saliceto	423 m
28,659	Cengio	408 m
	Cosseria Tunnel (528 m)
24,334	Cosseria until 2003	368 m
	by Alessandria
38,156	San Giuseppe di Cairo	343 m
	Branch over altars
18,450	Bragno
16,283	Ferrania	361 m
15,805	Sella Tunnel (2309 m)
13,496
12,940	Sella	287 m
5,664	Santuario	122 m

	from Genoa
	from Genoa to 1977
1.107	Savona new / old
	to Ventimiglia
	of Turin and Alessandria
24,375	San Giuseppe di Cairo	343 m
	from Ferrania
	Carcare
18,329	Altars	395 m
17,884	Altar tunnel (1451 m)
16,433
	Maschio until 2009	188 m
6,592	Santuario Tunnel (2063 m)
4,529

	from Genoa
	from Genoa to 1977
1.107	Savona new / old
	to Ventimiglia

The Turin – Fossano – Savona line is operated by the Italian State Railways Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) . It connects Piedmont with Savona on the Ligurian Mediterranean coast and overcomes the mountain range of the Apennines . The line has a length of 153 km, it is largely double-track and electrified with 3000 V direct current. In the mountains, the tracks for both directions of travel do not run parallel, as is generally the case, but sometimes on separate lines for each direction.

History and lines

The route was built in several construction phases:

1848 Turin - Trofarello
1853 Trofarello - Savigliano - Fossano
1874 Ceva - Savona via Ferrania
1923 San Giuseppe - Altars
1933 Fossano - Ceva
1954 Altars - Savona

The continuous connection from Turin to Savona was inaugurated in 1874. Starting in Savona, the route leads via Ferrania to San Giuseppe and on to Ceva and is initially single-track in this area. The connection between Ceva and Turin originally ran via Bra , the Ceva – Bra section is now largely closed.

At the beginning of the 20th century, plans began to double-track the line. The first step was the construction of the line in the north of the Apennine Mountains from Ceva via Mondovì to Fassano. This section was completed in 1933 and also served as a replacement for the previous winding route over Bra. In Fassano there is a connection to the double-track line from Cuneo to Turin.

The planning of the double-track expansion of the mountain line from San Giuseppe to Savona caused major difficulties. Due to the mountainous terrain, a completely new route was chosen, which was initially implemented as a single track, but was intended to be used as a replacement for the old line for a later double-track expansion. The work was delayed by the First World War. In 1923 a six-kilometer section from San Giuseppe to Altare was completed. The construction was further delayed, so that the whole route to Savona could not be put into operation until 1954. Both the old and the new route have numerous tunnels and bridges, a special feature of the new route is a spiral tunnel to cope with the steep difference in altitude on the Ligurian side. The construction of the parallel track and the closure of the original route are currently being discussed in the political committees. The section from Ceva to San Giuseppe is also unchanged on a single track. Coincidentally, the A6 motorway from Turin to Savona in Liguria also has two spatially separate lines for both lanes, whereby historical reasons were also decisive.

Web links

Commons : Turin – Fossano – Savona railway - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Bibliografia Ferroviaria Italiana ( it ) Retrieved February 26, 2020.
^ Al via l'iter del raddoppio ferroviario del tratto Savona - Cairo M: accolte dalla IV Commissione regional le proposte del gruppo "Noi per Savona ( it ) In: Savona News . July 11, 2019. Accessed February 27, 2020.

[1] Bibliografia Ferroviaria Italiana ( it ) Retrieved February 26, 2020.

[2] Al via l'iter del raddoppio ferroviario del tratto Savona - Cairo M: accolte dalla IV Commissione regional le proposte del gruppo "Noi per Savona ( it ) In: Savona News . July 11, 2019. Accessed February 27, 2020.