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Circumvesuviana railways: Lines Napoli–Sorrento and Napoli–Poggiomarino (via Scafati); stations of Ercolano Scavi (town centre, Herculaneum and Mount Vesuvius) and Ercolano Miglio d’Oro; travelling times: 15min from Napoli – 10min by direttissimo-DD train (only call at Ercolano Scavi) -, 20min from Pompei, 50min from Sorrento; average ...
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.
(in English) Official station page (in Italian) Stazioni del Mondo: Pompei Scavi-Villa dei Misteri 40°44′55″N 14°28′52″E / 40.74861°N 14.48111°E / 40.74861; 14
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.
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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.
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.
On the Naples-Salerno line, owned by FS, is situated the main railway station and a little stop named Pompei Scavi (ruins of P.), closed in the 1970s. Onto two lines owned by the SFSM – Circumvesuviana, Pompei counts a total of 4 station.