The Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia (''Upper Italian Railways'', ''SFAI'') was an
Italian railway company from 1865 to 1885.
History
It was established on 1 July 1865 with of line it acquired from the state railway of the
Kingdom of Sardinia
The Kingdom of Sardinia, also referred to as the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica among other names, was a State (polity), country in Southern Europe from the late 13th until the mid-19th century, and from 1297 to 1768 for the Corsican part of ...
(
Piedmont
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) (), the part of the state railway of the former
Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia () that had been absorbed into the
Kingdom of Italy
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in 1859 after the
Second Italian War of Independence
The Second Italian War of Independence, also called the Sardinian War, the Austro-Sardinian War, the Franco-Austrian War, or the Italian War of 1859 (Italian: ''Seconda guerra d'indipendenza italiana''; German: ''Sardinischer Krieg''; French: ...
and some other private railways. At its establishment, it included the
Turin–Genoa, the
Fréjus line, the
Turin–Milan,
Milan–Chiasso,
Milan–Domodossola,
Milan–Bologna and the
Bologna–Pistoia lines. After
Austria
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's defeat in the
Third Italian War of Independence in 1866, the railways of the
Veneto
Veneto, officially the Region of Veneto, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the Northeast Italy, north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of 4,851,851 as of 2025. Venice is t ...
(amounting to ), including the
Milan–Venice line, were transferred to the SFAI. On 1 July 1885 its network was taken over by the
Rete Mediterranea (''Mediterranean Network'') and the
Rete Adriatica (''Adriatic Network''), with lines generally west of
Milan
Milan ( , , ; ) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, the largest city in Italy by urban area and the List of cities in Italy, second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of nea ...
going to the ''Rete Mediterranea''.
SFAI locomotives
The following list is incomplete.
References
External links
Defunct railway companies of Italy
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