Tram Milan – Binasco – Pavia
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 The tram station in Binasco , 1910
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| Gauge : | 1445 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Milan – Binasco – Pavia tram was an intercity tram that connected the two Lombard provincial capitals of Milan and Pavia from 1880 to 1936 .
history
The steam-powered route between the two cities was put into operation on July 23, 1880 by the Belgian company Société des Tramways et Chemins de fer economiques de la Haute Italie . After a few years, the company was taken over by the Società per le Ferrovie del Ticino (SFT).
In the 1930s, all of the lines operated by the SFT in the provinces of Novara , Pavia and Vercelli were gradually closed. Only the route from Milan to Pavia was exceptionally preserved, but taken over by the Società Anonima del Tramway Milano-Magenta-Castano (MMC).
Steam-powered trams in Italy were on the brink of collapse: On February 29, 1936, the line was stopped and replaced by a bus line.
Brief description
The line was single-track and not electrified. There are flat bottom rails used in Italy usual for trams gauge mm from the 1445th
The route began in Milan at the Porta Lodovica city gate in the south of the city and followed the course of the ring road to Porta Ticinese . From there it followed the provincial road to Pavia (later State Road 35 ) along the Naviglio Grande canal at the time . The terminus in Pavia was on today's Piazza Petrarca in the old town.
The total length of the route was 34 km.
literature
- Francesco Ogliari, Franco Sapi: Stiffelius e berretto rosso. Storia dei trasporti italiani vol. 4. Milan 1964.
- Giovanni Cornolò: Fuori porta in tram. Le Tranvie extraurbane milanesi 1876 - 1980. Ermanno Albertelli Editore, Parma 1980.
