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Newag Vulcano
The Newag Vulcano (series DMU 001-004), is a diesel multiple unit railcar, built by Polish manufacturer Newag for the Ferrovia Circumetnea of Catania. The Vulcano was introduced in December 2013, when Italian railroad Ferrovia Circumetnea The Ferrovia Circumetnea (roughly translated as ''"Round- Etna Railway"'') is a narrow-gauge, , regional railway line in Sicily. It was constructed between 1895 and 1898. As the name suggests, the line follows a route which almost completely enc ... ordered four two-car trainsets. The first unit from the order was delivered two years later, and Vulcanos began revenue service in May 2016. In December 2017, Ferrovia Circumetnea placed an order for four more trainsets, three of which were contingent on obtaining financing. The Vulcano is based on a design from bankrupt Italian manufacturer Costa Sistemi Ferroviari. Each 950 mm gauge train set has two diesel engines, and can transport 106 passengers at a speed of up to . References * {{citati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrovia Circumetnea
The Ferrovia Circumetnea (roughly translated as ''"Round- Etna Railway"'') is a narrow-gauge, , regional railway line in Sicily. It was constructed between 1895 and 1898. As the name suggests, the line follows a route which almost completely encircles the Mount Etna volcano. From its terminal in Catania the line starts off westward and loops around Mount Etna in a clockwise direction (as seen on the map), eventually reaching the other terminal at the seaside town of Riposto, approximately northeast of Catania. The original terminal was at Catania Porto, although Catania Central (the mainline station) was the last stop for the trains. However, in the 1990s the section from there to Catania Borgo ( long) was converted to standard gauge and moved underground for most of its length for use as a new metro ( Metropolitana di Catania). The original terminus, the Porto station, was also reinstated. Therefore, the Circumetnea trains now terminate at Catania Borgo. The Ferrovia Circumet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newag
Newag S.A. ronounced: nevagis a Polish company, based in Nowy Sącz, specialising in the production, maintenance, and modernisation of railway rolling stock. The company's products include the 14WE, 19WE, 35WE types electric multiple units; it has also developed the Nevelo tram. History In 1876 the Royal Railway Workshop opened, serving a newly built Austrian railway line. After the First World War the establishment, renamed "1st Class Main Workshop" served Polish State Railways, employing some 1800 workers in 1922. In post-World War II communist Poland the workshop was nationalised and later became a separate, though still state-owned, enterprise officially called "Nowy Sacz Railway Rolling Stock Repairs Depot in Nowy Sacz, State Independent Enterprise" ( pl, Zakłady Naprawcze Taboru Kolejowego "Nowy Sącz" w Nowym Sączu, Przedsiębiorstwo Państwowe Wyodrębnione ), with a workforce of about 3,500 in 1952. The last steam locomotive was serviced in 1972. After the fall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narrow-gauge Railways In Italy
Most narrow-gauge railways in Italy were built with Italian metre gauge, which is actually because historically the Italian track gauge was defined from the centres of the rail instead of the internationally accepted method of measuring the gauge from the inside edges of the rails. Several metre-gauge lines were built in northern Italy. 123 km gauge (123 km electrified); 1,290 km gauge (151 km electrified); 231 km gauge (2008) 1200 mm gauge narrow-gauge railways in Italy are: *Central Funicular in Naples *Gardena Ronda Express 1100 mm gauge The temporary Mont Cenis Railway (1868–1871) was gauge. Metre-gauge lines (1000 mm) * Domodossola–Locarno railway between Domodossola, and Locarno, Switzerland. * Ferrovia Genova–Casella in Genoa, Liguria. *Laas-Lasa freight private railway to a marble cave, that uses a funicular. * Mendel Funicular connecting the Überetsch plateau with the Mendel Pass. *Trieste–Opicina tramway, with a funicula ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiple Unit
A multiple-unit train or simply multiple unit (MU) is a self-propelled train composed of one or more carriages joined together, which when coupled to another multiple unit can be controlled by a single driver, with multiple-unit train control. Although multiple units consist of several carriages, single self-propelled carriages – also called railcars, rail motor coaches or railbuses – are in fact multiple-units when two or more of them are working connected through multiple-unit train control (regardless if passengers can walk between the units or not). History Multiple-unit train control was first used in electric multiple units in the 1890s. The Liverpool Overhead Railway opened in 1893 with two-car electric multiple units, controllers in cabs at both ends directly controlling the traction current to motors on both cars. The multiple-unit traction control system was developed by Frank Sprague and first applied and tested on the South Side Elevated Railroad (now p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catania
Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by the presence of important road and rail transport infrastructures as well as by the main airport in Sicily, fifth in Italy. It is located on Sicily's east coast, at the base of the active volcano, Mount Etna, and it faces the Ionian Sea. It is the capital of the 58-municipality region known as the Metropolitan City of Catania, which is the seventh-largest metropolitan city in Italy. The population of the city proper is 311,584, while the population of the Metropolitan City of Catania is 1,107,702. Catania was founded in the 8th century BC by Chalcidian Greeks. The city has weathered multiple geologic catastrophes: it was almost completely destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake in 1169. A major eruption and lava flow from nearby Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Costa Sistemi Ferroviari
Costa may refer to: Biology * Rib (Latin: ''costa''), in vertebrate anatomy * Costa (botany), the central strand of a plant leaf or thallus * Costa (coral), a stony rib, part of the skeleton of a coral * Costa (entomology), the leading edge of the forewing of winged insects, as well as a part of the male clasper Organisations * Costa Coffee, a British coffee shop chain, sponsor of the book award * Costa Cruises, a leading cruise company in Europe * Costa Del Mar, an American manufacturer of polarized sunglasses * Costa Group, Australian food supplier Places * Costa, Haute-Corse, a commune on the island of Corsica *Costa Head, prominent headland on the Orkney Islands * Costa Rica, a country in Central America * Costa Mesa, California, a city in Orange County * Costa, Lajas, Puerto Rico, a barrio Other uses * Costa (surname), including origin of the name and people sharing the surname * ''Costa!'', a 2001 Dutch film from BNN * Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Award, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Track Gauge In Italy
Historically, Italy had two unusual dominant track gauges which were legally defined depending on the terrain encountered. The gauge of was used for the national Italian rail network and was very similar to the standard gauge commonly used elsewhere in the world. Since the 1930s, the gauge has been adopted as the standard and gradually replaced the track gauge. Thus, in Italy, only a few older tram systems, such as the Milanese tramway network, remain equipped with . The other popular gauge, a narrow gauge, was defined at and is very similar to the metre gauge – – commonly used in many other parts of Europe and thus came to be known as "the Italian metre gauge". Historical legal definitions of 1879 Italian law has defined its track gauges in terms of the distance between the centres of each rail, rather than the inside edges of the rails, giving some unusual measurements. According to the law of 28 July 1879, the only legal gauges in Italy were , , measured between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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