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All regional trains, differently from metropolitan trains, are received by Campi Flegrei station in different platforms. Line 2 also has some minor regional extensions. These are the Naples-Caserta and Naples-Salerno (all these services use the Passante rapid transit railway, of which the latter two start from Campi Flegrei station).
See: Line 2 (Naples metro) The construction of the line, part of the ″direttissima″ Rome–Naples, was begun in 1911 and after a suspension during World War I, it was completed in 1925 between Pozzuoli and Piazza Garibaldi, electrified with third rail. Two years later the ″direttissima″ was completed, and the electrical rail service was ...
The metro is served by "M.88" and "CT0" series electric trains, built by Firema. The Catania rail link is being built, of which the urban section between Cannizzaro, Ognina and Catania Centrale is already active, while the one between Catania and Bicocca (whose station will be underground) is still in the executive design phase, as is the ...
Like mainline trains in Italy but unusual for a metro, trains use 3000 V DC overhead wires for power, the exact reason for doing so being unknown. It is the only metro outside Brazil to use 3000 V DC overhead power, and only of only two metros worldwide to use 3000 V DC power on standard gauge tracks, the other being the Salvador Metro in Brazil.
Pompei Scavi services the main entrance to Pompeii ETR 211 Metrostar. Circumvesuviana (Italian pronunciation: [ˌtʃirkuɱvezuˈvjaːna]) is a railway network in the east of the Naples metropolitan area, previously run by a company of the same name, now operated by Ente Autonomo Volturno.
The Naples Metro (Italian: Metropolitana di Napoli) is a rapid transit system serving the city of Naples, Campania, Italy and some parts of the adjacent comuni of its metropolitan area through Line 11. The system comprises three underground rapid transit lines (Line 1, Line 6 and Line 11).
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Line 4, mostly known as the Cumana railway (Italian: Ferrovia Cumana) is a commuter rail service in Campania, southern Italy, connecting Naples by two separate routes with Torregaveta, near Cuma in the town of Bacoli (about 15 km west of Naples). It passes through Pozzuoli and the volcanic Campi Flegrei area.