Tolmezzo – Paluzza – Moscardo small train

Tolmezzo – Paluzza – Moscardo small train
Small train near Tolmezzo
Route length:	28 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )
Legend Moscardo Casteons Paluzza Sutrio Noiaris Noiaris Gallery Piano d'Arta, stop Piano d'Arta, train station Arta Terme Zuglio Zuglio Gallery Cedarchis Imponzo Tolmezzo, tram Tolmezzo, freight yard Tolmezzo , train station Ferrovia Carnia-Tolmezzo-Villa Santina

The Tolmezzo – Paluzza – Moscardo ( Italian Ferrovia del But ) was a narrow-gauge railway in Italy that was laid and operated by the Italian armed forces during the First World War .

location

The railway line with a gauge of 750 mm was 22 km long. It connected the villages in the but-valley (Italian Valle del But , Friulian Bût , tischlbongarisch Pooch ) with Tolmezzo in central Carnia .

history

The small railway was built after the Italian entry into the First World War in May 1915 by order of the general in command of the Carnia section , Clemente Lequio, by railway pioneers of the Italian army . Until the construction of the narrow-gauge railway, the valley through which the Torrente But flows was not accessible and could only be reached on foot. In order to supply the troops at the front on the Carnic main ridge with supplies, Lequio had the Degano Railway, also a narrow-gauge railway with 750 mm gauge, built in the Val Degano to the west of the same name in addition to the But Railway.

Construction of the connecting track of the small railway in Paluzza from prefabricated field railway track yokes

Until the collapse of the Italian front in October 1917, the railway was also used for civilian passenger and freight traffic. On October 31, 1917, a week after the breakthrough battle at Karfreit , the Austro-Hungarian army took possession of the almost undamaged But railway. At the end of November 1917, the competent command stationed in occupied Udine ordered the kuk railway troops to resume operations. The railway, which is mainly used for civil purposes, was kept in operation by the Austro-Hungarian Railway Troops until the end of the war in November 1918.

A few months after the end of the war, in March 1919 the municipalities of the valley submitted an application to the competent Italian Ministry of Public Works for the concession of the railway line, which was initially to be entrusted to the public electricity company in Paluzza (Italian: Società elettrica cooperativa Alto But ). A concession had already been discussed in 1916. On October 23, 1919, the operating license was finally granted and operations resumed. In 1925, the concession, which had been issued retrospectively for 35 years from 1919, was transferred to the municipal consortium ( Consorzio della Tramvia del But ) established for this purpose. The ministry granted subsidies of 3,666 lire per train kilometer annually for the operation .

When it reopened, six locomotives, fourteen passenger cars and 58 freight cars were available. A connection planned in 1923 with the Degano Valley from Tolmezzo to the terminus of the Degano Schmulspurbahn in Villa Santina was not built.

For the 17 km long route to Paluzza, the last section to Moscardo, which was originally only used for freight traffic, was not put back into operation after the war, the steam-powered train took one hour and 15 minutes, which is a cruising speed of 13.6 km / h. In the opposite direction, the travel time was reduced by ten minutes. The route was operated three times a day and four times a day on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Operations ceased on October 31, 1931 due to the insolvency of the municipal consortium. In 2019, the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region was presented with an intermunicipal project for the use of the route as a cycle path.

Locomotives

The Società Veneta, which was initially responsible for the operation of the small train, procured ten two-axle Breda steam locomotives for use on this route as well as on the Villa Santina - Comeglians small train , which were numbered 90 to 99 as Gruppo 9 . During the war, at least one two-axle locomotive was used by Orenstein & Koppel and one that was built by the Officine Meccaniche Reggiane for the Reggimento Genio Ferrovieri .

literature

• Mauro Bottegal: Ferrovie portatili della Prima Guerra Mondiale. Lulu PR, 2019, ISBN 978-0-244-15427-1 .
• Giuseppe Nogarino: Tranvie del Degano e della valle del Bût in Carnia, alto Friuli. Cortona, Calosci 2001, ISBN 88-7785-174-0 .

Web links

Commons : Kleinbahn Tolmezzo – Paluzza – Moscard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Claudio Canton: La ferrovia Carnia-Villa Santina. In: Il Tender: Notiario della sat Dlf Udine Numero 57 Anno 15 (2) July 2010. S. 2 ( pdf )
2. ^ Claudio Canton: La ferrovia Carnia-Villa Santina. P. 3
3. ^ Società elettrica cooperativa Alto But 75 ° 1911–1985. (pdf) In: secab.it. Retrieved January 27, 2020 (Italian). 
4. ^ Bollettino ufficiale del Ministero dei lavori pubblici. Anno XXVI. - N. 19 1 ° luglio 1925. pp. 1557-1570
5. ↑ Romano Vecchiet: fervore ferroviario negli anni Venti tra Carnia e Cadore. La Villa Santina-Dobbiaco e la Comeglians-Sappada: due filosofie progettuali, uno stesso destino. In: Romano Vecchiet (ed.): Treni d'archivio. Capitoli di storia delle ferrovie in Friuli. Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese, Udine 2015 ISBN 978-88-8420-860-6 p. 309
6. ↑ Marco Miconi: Le ferrovie friulane ex militari a scartamento ridotto nell'orario del 1923. In: Il Tender: Notiario della sat Dlf Udine Numero 11 Anno 3 (4) December 1998. S. 1 ( pdf )
7. ^ Franco Castiglioni: Carnia e le sue ferrovie. In: I Treni. Volume XV, No. 150, July 1994, pp. 22-27. ISSN 0392-4602.
8. ↑ Giuseppe Nogarino: Tranvie del valle del Degano e della Bût in Carnia, alto Friuli. Cortona, Calosci, 2001, ISBN 88-7785-174-0 .
9. ↑ Biciplan. Patto territoriale e intesa per lo sviluppo 2017–2020: Programma comprensionale per la mobilità lenta su viabilità ciclo-pedonale. (pdf) In: simfvg.it. Retrieved January 27, 2020 (Italian). 
10. ↑ Mauro Bottegal: Ferrovie portatili della Prima Guerra Mondiale. Lulu PR, 2019, ISBN 978-0-244-15427-1 . Pp. 53-54.

Coordinates: 46 ° 24 '4.8 "  N , 13 ° 1' 9.8"  E