Ferrovia Decauville Feltre – Fonzaso – Fastro

Ferrovia Decauville Feltre – Fonzaso – Fastro
O&K steam locomotive of Ferrovia Decauville Feltre – Fonzaso Assembly of a train in Feltre
Approximate route with serpentines at Arsié
Gauge :	600 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend Feltre Mugnai Rasai Species Fonzaso Fenadora Giaroni Serpentine at Arsiè Arsiè Fastro

The Ferrovia Decauville Feltre – Fonzaso – Fastro was a field railway built during the First World War by the Italian armed forces with a gauge of 600 mm in the Dolomites .

history

The field railway from Feltre to Fonzaso was built by the Regio Esercito after the Italian entry into the war in May 1915 to create a connection to the Canal San Bovo in Primör, which belongs to Austria-Hungary and is occupied by the Italian army . From the Feltre train station, the field railway ran around the center of Feltre to Monte Grappa . A junction probably led from the train station to the Zanettelli barracks. At the Feltre bus station, which was previously used as a tank farm, there are remains of the light rail tracks embedded in the tar today ⁽²⁰¹⁹⁾ .

After the defeat at Karfreit and the retreat of the Italian army from the Dolomite front in late autumn 1917, the Austro-Hungarian army relocated the route on a different route and extended it in the last year of the war via Arsiè to the Fastro cemetery. They also built a branch line from Seren del Grappa to Rasai.

An Austro-Hungarian military cable car ran from Fastro to the Primolano border station, where there was a connection to the Valsugana Railway . In addition, the construction of a tunnel has started to reach Grigno in Valsugana .

business

Railway operations in Fonzaso		RIIIc steam locomotive at Strada Statale 50 del Grappa e del Passo Rolle

The field railway was operated with steam locomotives. It had a transport capacity of 580 t / day. In addition to the two and three-axle O&K steam locomotives used by the Italians, an Austro-Hungarian RIIIc built in Germany was probably used.

In the post-war period, the line from Feltre to Fonzaso or Fastro was used civilly until at least 1920, but was then dismantled and scrapped.

literature

• Mauro Bottegal: Ferrovie portatili della Prima Guerra Mondiale. Lulu PR, 2019 ISBN 978-0-244-15427-1 .
• Dieter Stanfel: Kuk military field railways in the First World War. The kuk Lokomotivfeldbahn No. 1 . Austria-Hungary's field and taxiways. Ed .: German Society for Railway History e. V. DGEG Medien, Hövelhof 2008, ISBN 978-3-937189-41-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Mauro Bottegal: Ferrovie portatili della Prima Guerra Mondiale. Lulu.com, 2019. pp. 50-52.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Feldbahn at Feltre Ihrlim
3. ↑ Former light rail tracks at the Feltre bus station.
4. ↑ The conclusion of the Guerra.
5. ↑ Ciro Paoletti and Giancarlo Marzochi: Treni e militari Italiani. Associazione culturale Commissione Italiana di Storia Militare, Rome, 2017. p.171.
6. ↑ Feltre - Fonzaso - Fastro 600mm.
7. ↑ Tomaso Pettazzi: Intervento_Seminario di_Pieve di_Cadore.

Coordinates: 46 ° 0 ′ 46 ″  N , 11 ° 54 ′ 37.7 ″  E