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The first station on the site was built in 1866 on a design by the architect Enrico Alvino and it was opened on 7 May of the following year. The current station was designed in 1954 by Pier Luigi Nervi, Carlo Cocchia, Massimo Battaglini, Bruno Zevi, Giulio De Luca, Luigi Piccinato and Giuseppe Vaccaro on the site of the old railway station and overlooks the square dedicated to Giuseppe Garibaldi.
The first line to be built on the peninsula was the Naples–Portici line, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which was 7.64 km (4.75 mi) long and was inaugurated on 3 October 1839, nine years after the world's first "modern" inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. [5]
A Frenchman promoted the line, Armand Bayard de la Vingtrie, who received a concession to build it in February 1837 from King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.The concession authorised Bayard to build a railway from the current location of Napoli Centrale railway station outside the old walls of Naples along the Bay of Naples to Nocera Inferiore on the Sorrentine Peninsula, a distance of 35.8 ...
1860 - Plebiscite taken on 21 October 1860 to bring Naples into the unified Kingdom of Italy under the House of Savoy. 1860 – Constitution. [clarification needed] 1861 – Garibaldi arrives. 1862 - Anglican church in Vico San Pasquale built. [4] 1867 Napoli Centrale railway station built. [4] Majello porcelain manufactory established.
The first one, Trenitalia, operates line 2 from Pozzuoli Solfatara to Gianturco station in East of Naples. The other one, EAV, operates the Circumvesuviana, Cumana and Circumflegrea. In Italy, Naples is the only city possessing two independent metropolitan railway service companies.
In 1839 Naples was the first city in Italy to have a railway, with the Napoli-Portici line. In spite of a little cultural revival and the proclamation of a Constitution on June 25, 1860, in the last years of the kingdom the gap between the court and the intellectual class continued to grow.
It was built immediately north of the Bayard company station, the terminus of the railway to Salerno. The two stations were connected by a connecting track. Following the concentration of the two railway lines in the new station of Napoli Centrale (1867), [ 1 ] Porta Nolana station lost its function as a passenger terminus, downgraded to a ...
The system is a true funicular: an inclined railway with two passenger cars, connected via cables, operating in concert. Inaugurated in 1928, the Central Funicular of Naples is one of the most used funicular railways in the world, and carries over 10 million passengers per year.