Ferrovia Alta Valtellina

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Ferrovia Alta Valtellina
Tirano train station
Tirano train station
Route of the Ferrovia Alta Valtellina
Route number (RFI) : 26th
Course book series (IT) : 180
Route length: 26 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 3000 V  =
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Colico
Station, station
 0.000 Sondrio 297 m
Stop, stop
 4.917 Poggiridenti - Tresivio - Piateda former train station 304 m
Station, station
 8.416 Ponte in Valtellina 385 m
Stop, stop
 9,709 Chiuro former train station 390 m
Stop, stop
 12,474 San Giacomo di Teglio former train station 394 m
Station, station
 16.889 Tresenda - Aprica - Teglio 374 m
Stop, stop
 19,850 Bianzone former train station 444 m
Stop, stop
 22,182 Villa di Tirano former train station 381 m
End station - end of the line
 25,957 Tirano transition to the Bernina Railway 441 m

The Ferrovia Alta Valtellina ("Oberveltlin-Bahn") is a standard-gauge railway line in Lombardy . It connects the city of Sondrio with Tirano . There is a connection to the meter-gauge Bernina Railway .

The route was opened on June 29, 1902 by the Società Anonima per le Ferrovie dell'Alta Valtellina (FAV). In the same year the network of the Ferrovia della Valtellina ( Valtellina Railway), which also connects the FAV with the rest of the Italian railway network, was electrified with three-phase current . Thirty years later, FAV followed suit, purchasing four E.440 locomotives for this purpose , which were manufactured with parts already produced for the FS E.471 series . In 1952 the Veltlinbahn was converted to direct current , and Sondrio functioned as a system transfer station until 1968 . Thereafter, the operation was carried out for over ten years with diesel multiple units. A three-phase current locomotive was preserved and came to the National Railway Museum in Pietrarsa near Naples.

In 1970 the railway was taken over by the state railway company Ferrovie dello Stato (FS). This means that the line is now only the last section of their railway line through the Adda Valley. On May 29, 1980, the 3 kV direct current overhead line was inaugurated, with the timetable change on June 1, electrical operation began. There have been through trains from Milan to Tirano since 1981 .

  • Three-phase current locomotive E.440.3 (in service from 1932 to 1968) in the Pietrarsa Museum

  • Tirano station, on the left a meter-gauge train and the station building of the Bernina Railway

Web links

Commons : Ferrovia Alta Valtellina  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • Rete Ferroviaria Italiana. Fascicolo linea 26

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926
  2. ^ Nico Molino: Trifase in Italia 1925-1976. Locknotes, Edizioni Gulliver, Torino 1991, ISBN 88-85361-12-9 , page 36
  3. ↑ Note flash. In: I Treni Oggi No. 1 (September 1980), p. 5.
  4. ↑ Railway Amateur 7/80, page 454.