Siena–Chiusi railway

Siena–Chiusi railway
Siena–Chiusi railway
Overview
Status	in use
Owner	Rete Ferroviaria Italiana
Locale	Tuscany, Italy
Termini	Siena; Chiusi;
Service
Type	Heavy rail
Operator(s)	Trenitalia
History
Opened	24 July 1862
Technical
Line length	89 km (55 mi)
Number of tracks	1 (Siena–P.M. Montallese); 2 (P.M. Montallese–Chiusi);
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	P.M. Montallese–Chiusi
Operating speed	140 km/h (87 mph)
Route map
	Legend
	Empoli–Siena railway
	to Empoli
	Siena–Grosseto railway
	to Grosseto
	Asciano-Monte
	Oliveto Maggiore
	Asciano–Monte Antico railway
	to Monte Antico
	Arezzo–Sinalunga railway
	to Arezzo
	Florence–Rome HSR
	to Florence
	173.777
	9.731
	Florence–Rome HSR
	to Rome
	Florence–Rome railway
	← Rome│Florence →
	Source: Italian railway atlas
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The Siena–Chiusi railway is a railway line in Italy.

It is currently managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, which considers it a complementary line.^[2] It is not electrified and single track from Siena to Montallese. The Montallese–Chiusi section forms part of the Chiusi Nord junction of the Florence–Rome high-speed railway and was rebuilt during its construction. The passenger service is provided by Trenitalia.

History[edit]

Section	Opened^[3]
Siena–Sinalunga	19 September 1859
Sinalunga–Torrita	29 October 1860
Torrita–Salarco	20 October 1861
Salarco–Chiusi	24 July 1862

The construction of the line[edit]

In 1851, the company obtained a concession for the extension of the line along the Chiana Valley^[4] and started designing the section from Siena to Chiusi. The first stone was laid on 20 May 1854: the Siena–Sinalunga section (58 km) was inaugurated five years later, on 11 September 1859, and operations commenced on 19 September.^[5] The Sinalunga–Torrita di Siena section (7 km) was opened on 29 October 1860.^[3]

In August 1861, the company obtained an authorisation from the Italian government to continue the Siena–Chiusi line towards Orvieto to connect with the Roma–Foligno line near Orte.^[6] The Torrita di Siena–Salarco section (6 km) was opened on 20 October 1861.^[3] Salarco station was located near a stream of the same name in the locality of Sciarti, in Abbadia di Montepulciano. An iron bridge with two spans was built to cross the stream—hence the locality is called Ponte di Ferro (iron bridge)—near a monumental brick waterfall (La Serra) built by the engineer Alessandro Manetti in 1849, during land reclamation work in the area. The characteristic nineteenth-century bridge was destroyed during the Second World War, by retreating German troops on 30 June 1944.^[7]

It was decided to build a railway yard in the middle of the Val di Chiana to convey the agricultural production of the three most important farms of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in the area: Abbadia di Montepulciano, Chianacce and Acquaviva di Montepulciano. Salarco–Chiusi section (20 km) was opened on 24 July 1862, while the Chiusi–Ficulle section was opened on 15 December of the same year.^[3]

From the conventions of 1865 to the establishment of the Ferrovie dello Stato[edit]

Under law no. 2272 of 14 May 1865, which reorganised the railway networks in Italy, the concessionary company of the Central Tuscany railway was incorporated into the Società per le strade ferrate romane (Roman Railways), which took over the management of the line and took over the completion of the line to Orte, as well as the construction of a branch from Asciano to Grosseto, completed in 1872. On 24 August 1867, Giuseppe Garibaldi travelled on the line on the last afternoon train and, coming from Rapolano Terme, he stopped at Salarco station, where some police notables were waiting for him and accompanied him by carriage to Montepulciano.^{[nb 1]}

References[edit]

Footnotes[edit]

^ Railway Atlas 2017, pp. 10, 11, 25, 26, 138.
^ "Rete in esercizio" (PDF) (in Italian). RFI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Prospetto cronologico 1926.
^ Lazzeri 1862, p. 456.
^ Lazzeri 1862, p. 457.
^ Lazzeri 1862, p. 459.
^ ^a ^b Angiolini 2007.

Notes[edit]

^ Report of the Prefect of Siena to Rome of 26 August 1867^[7]

Sources[edit]

Atlante ferroviario d'Italia e Slovenia [Railway atlas of Italy and Slovenia]. Schweers + Wall. 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1.
Angiolini, Alessandro (2007). La Casa del Popolo e la Casa del Fascio ad Abbadia di Montepulciano (in Italian). I libri di Polis.
Lazzeri, Luigi, ed. (1862). Siena e il suo territorio [Siena and its territory] (in Italian). Siena: Istituto dei Sordo-Muti.
Tuzza, Alessandro, ed. (1927). "Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926" (in Italian). Ufficio Centrale di Statistica delle Ferrovie dello Stato/Trenidicarta.it. Retrieved 18 August 2018.

External links[edit]

Media related to Siena–Chiusi railway at Wikimedia Commons

Bibliography[edit]

RFI - Fascicolo Linea 98

[FOOTNOTERailway_Atlas201710,_11,_25,_26,_138-1] Railway Atlas 2017, pp. 10, 11, 25, 26, 138.

[2] "Rete in esercizio" (PDF) (in Italian). RFI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 8 September 2020.

[FOOTNOTEProspetto_cronologico1926-3] Prospetto cronologico 1926.

[FOOTNOTELazzeri1862456-4] Lazzeri 1862, p. 456.

[FOOTNOTELazzeri1862457-5] Lazzeri 1862, p. 457.

[FOOTNOTELazzeri1862459-6] Lazzeri 1862, p. 459.

[FOOTNOTEAngiolini2007-7] Angiolini 2007.

[8] Report of the Prefect of Siena to Rome of 26 August 1867^[7]

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