PIETRARSA RAILWAY MUSEUM NAPLES

Pietrarsa Railway Museum in Pietrarsa Street, Naples.
A magical place where time and trains together in one dimension.
The place of memory of our Italian railways.
On 3 October 1839 in the Kingdom of the two Sicilies was inaugurated the first railway d� Italy. Was long linked Naples to Portici 7,411 meters, the same Director of the Naples-Salerno line, which now runs alongside l� area of the Museum.
The route was route in 11 minutes from two convoys planned Armand Bayard de la Vingtrie engineer �, on prototype of � English George Stephenson.
L� year after the Royal Decree was issued for the purchase of the first part of the land on which it would be the Pietrarsa complex, in a resort where during the Napoleonic era was stationed a coast, to defend the Bay of Naples.
L� goal to Ferdinand II was ambitious: to fasten his Kingdom from the technological supremacy of England and France.

source: FS.IT Foundation site

PIETRARSA RAILWAY MUSEUM NAPLES

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