Società Anonima per la Strada Ferrata dell'Italia Centrale
The Società Anonima per la Strada Ferrata dell'Italia Centrale (dt. Italian Central Railway ) was a railway company that was founded in 1852 to build a connection between the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany .
In 1851 a treaty was signed between the Austrian Empire , the Duchy of Parma , the Papal States and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany for the construction of this route.
According to this contract, the following routes were planned:
- a route through the Po Valley , from Piacenza via Parma , Reggio nell'Emilia and Modena to Bologna (today's railway line Milan – Bologna )
- a mountain route from Bologna over the Apennines to Pistoia or Prato (today's Porrettana Railway )
- a branch from Reggio nell'Emilia via Borgoforte to the fortress of Mantua (never built)
The Austrian government would have built two connections to the existing Lombard railway network: the Milan - Piacenza line via Lodi and a line through Mantua .
The aim of the newly planned network was the connection from the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto to the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Tuscany port of Livorno .
Due to financial problems, the company was dissolved in 1856 and the concession was given to the newly founded Lombard-Venetian and Central-Italian Railway Company (LVCI) .
literature
- Silvio Gallio, Oggi è un'ora di viaggio - La costruzione della strada ferrata tra Milano e Bologna , Bologna, 2009, CLUEB. ISBN 978-88-491-3173-4 .