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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.
See: Circumvesuviana. Circumvesuviana is a railway company operating services in the East of the Naples metropolitan area. Electrically powered throughout, the system uses the narrow gauge of 950 mm (3 ft 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) and operates 142 km (88 mi) of route on six lines. It is entirely separate from other national and regional railway lines.
The Pompeii station while a Circumvesuviana train is passing. Ente Autonomo Volturno manages on behalf of the Campania Region, which owns it, the isolated railways Circumflegrea, Circumvesuviana and Cumana to which are added the Alifana, Benevento-Cancello railways (also called Caudina railway) and the Naples-Giugliano-Aversa line. [3]
Circumvesuviana had been involved in two previous accidents. On 6 December 1992 a switch malfunction, instigated by bad weather, caused a derailment. On 22 January 2009 a tree toppled by the wind hit the overhead electric wires and fell onto a train passing below. The train driver and guard were severely injured, but ultimately recovered.
A Naples Circumvesuviana train arrives at Pompei-Scavi in 2004. Most narrow-gauge railways in Italy were built with Italian metre gauge, which is actually 950 mm (3 ft 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) 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.
Pompei Scavi-Villa dei Misteri is a railway station in Pompei, Italy, on the Naples-Sorrento line of the Circumvesuviana commuter rail system. Location
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Napoli Porta Nolana station is the main and terminal station of the Circumvesuviana railways, today managed by the Ente Autonomo Volturno (EAV). The station bears this name (derived from nearby Porta Nolana ) since 2003; previously the station was simply called Napoli , although it was known colloquially as Napoli Terminale .