Rocchette – Asiago rack railway
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 Railway viaduct over the Astico
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| Route length: | 21.190 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 950 mm ( Italian meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : |
Adhesion 35 ‰ rack 125 ‰ |
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| Minimum radius : | 80 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rack system : | Strub | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Rocchette – Asiago rack railway was a narrow-gauge railway opened in 1910 with a gauge of 950 mm and mixed adhesion and cogwheel operation from Rocchette to Asiago in the northern Italian province of Vicenza . The operation was stopped in 1958 and the line was later dismantled.
history
Towards the end of the 19th century, the development of the textile industry in the upper part of the Vicenza province required improved road and rail connections. In 1907 the government approved the construction of a 21-kilometer-long railway connection with a track width of 950 mm. The first preparatory work began in 1907 and the actual construction of the line began a year later, 5764 meters of which were equipped with the Strub rack and pinion system . On February 10, 1910, the Ferrovie Nord Vicenza (FNV, Nord-Vincener-Eisenbahnen) officially opened the railway line.
In the First World War , the railway served military purposes from May 1915 and was used for the evacuation of the places on the seven communities . With the start of the Austro-Hungarian South Tyrol offensive in May 1916, the Asiago terminus could no longer be reached. After the offensive ended in June 1916, the trains ran again at night to Campiello station.
In 1926, the railway was taken over by the Società Veneta (SV, Venetian Society). In 1928 three mixed trains ran in each direction in summer and two in winter . The journey time was 1 hour 35 minutes, 49 minutes of which were on the Cogollo – Campiello mountain route.
A switch to electric traction was planned, but never implemented. After the Second World War, the emerging competition on the roads led to a decline in traffic and operations ceased on July 31, 1958.
Route description
The line began in Rocchette at 283 m slm , where it connected to the Schio - Arsiero branch line . Shortly after Rocchette, the route crossed the Astico with a 70 meter high and 151.5 meter long viaduct and led with slight inclines to Cogollo del Cengio , where the rack and pinion route to Campiello di Val Canaglia began. From there, the line ran as an adhesion railway with slight inclines and declines to its end point in Asiago at 1001 m slm
Locomotives
| FNV No. 1–4 | |
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| Numbering: | 1-4 |
| Manufacturer: | SLM |
| Year of construction (s): | 1909-1910 |
| Type : | Cz n2 (4v) |
| Gauge : | 950 mm |
| Length over coupling: | 7242 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 3050 mm |
| Service mass: | 27.2 t |
| Indexed performance : | 300 hp |
| Coupling wheel diameter: | 820 mm |
| Number of drive gears: | 1 |
| Number of brake gears: | 1 |
| Size gears: | 860 mm |
| Control type : | Heusinger |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 adhesion 2 gear |
| Cylinder diameter: | 370 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 420 mm |
| Cylinder d. Gear drive: | 370 mm |
| Piston stroke gear drive: | 420 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 14 Atü |
| Grate area: | 1.0 m³ |
| Evaporation heating surface: | 55.7 m² |
| Water supply: | 3.0 m³ |
| Fuel supply: | 880 kg (coal) |
| Brake: |
Back pressure brake , air brake type Westinghouse |
The Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschinenfabrik (SLM) in Winterthur delivered four three-axle locomotives with separate adhesion and gear drive system Winterthur . The machines with the FNV numbers 1–4 were designed based on the model of the Brünigbahn locomotives HG 3/3 .
In 1915, the FNV were able to take over HG 3/3 No. 9 from the Berner Oberland Railway (BOB) , which corresponded to HG 3/3 of the Brünig Railway . The locomotive, which was no longer required due to the electrification of the BOB in the Bernese Oberland, was re-gauged by the SLM from meter gauge to 950 mm and was given road number 110 by the FNV.
The locomotives were given the following names:
| Company number | Surname |
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| 1 | A. Rossi |
| 2 | Asiago |
| 3 | Roana |
| 4th | Rocchette |
| 110 | Lupa |
Todays use
The route of the upper adhesion section between Campiello di Val Canaglia and Asiago now serves as the “La Strada del Vecchio Trenino” cycle path . The two railway tunnels on this section were equipped with lighting.
The former station building in Canove now houses a war museum, which deals in particular with the war events between 1915 and 1918 on the Asiago plateau. The locomotive (R370 024) standing on a piece of track next to the museum was brought from Klausen station to Canove in 2008 . It was originally in Sicily , but never on the Rocchette – Asiago line, and is one of the five remaining narrow-gauge locomotives of the R370 series with adhesion and gear drive.
literature
- Hans Steffan : Cz friction and composite cogwheel locomotive of the Rochette-Asiago Railway (Schlegen). In: Die Lokomotive , 1916, pp. 214–215 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online )
- Gianni Gasparella, Giorgio Chiericato: Ferrovia a cremagliera Rocchette – Asiago, la più ardita d'Italia. Rocchette – Asiago rack railway, the boldest in Italy. 1995, Asiago, Bonomo Publishing House (Italian)
- Il trenino dell'Altipiano, ricordo della ferrovia Rocchette – Asiago. The Altipiano train - memory of the Rocchette – Asiago Railway iTreni n ° 20, 1982, ETR Salò (Italian)
- Greenways in Italia. Outdoor guide. Novara , 2003, published by De Agostini. ISBN 978-884-183-176-2 (Italian)
- Giovanni Villan: La ferrovia di montagna Rocchette-Asiago. Rocchette – Asiago mountain railway 2nd edition, 1989, Asiago, Tipografia moderna publishing house (Italian)
- Giovanni Cornolò, Giovanni Villan: La Società Veneta - Binari nel passato. The Venetian Society - Traces in the Past 1985, Parma , Verlag Ermanno Albertelli (Italian)
- Giorgio Chiericato, Franco Segalla: I treni delle lane - Ferrovie tra la Val Leogra e la Val d'Astico. The wool trains - railways between Val Leogra and Val d'Astico. 1995, Asiago, Bonomo Publishing House (Italian)
- Giovanni Cornolò: La Società Veneta ferrovie. Railways of the Società Veneta 2005, Ponte San Nicolò , DuegiEditrice publishing house, ISBN 88-900979-6-5 (Italian)
- Giovanni Rattini: C'era una volta il Trenino dell'Altopiano ... viaggi, storie e ricordi lungo la ferrovia. Once upon a time there was the Altopiano train ... journeys, stories and memories along the railway. 2008, Padua , Edizioni Cleup publishing house, ISBN 978-88-6129-232-1 (Italian)
See also
Web links
- Ferrovia Piovene Rocchette - Asiago . On: Ferrovie abbandonate, accessed on January 1, 2018, with images from the operating time and the present (Italian)
- Reception building Asiago 1916 On: www.lombardiabeniculturali.it
- Timetable 1928 On: Amici della Ferrovia Rocchette - Asiago
- La ferrovia a scartamento ridotto Piovene / Rocchette-Asiago . On: Italian Association of Model Railroaders and Railway Friends - FIMF accessed on January 5, 2018, with pictures (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The narrow-gauge railway Piovene / Rocchette-Asiago (Italian) accessed on January 5, 2018.
- ↑ Alla vecchia stazione di Canove arriverà una locomotiva d'epoca (Italian) accessed on January 5, 2018
- ↑ R370 - il punto della situazione su questo gruppo (Italian) accessed on January 5, 2018