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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]
Accommodating the station's concourse, the bridge has an area of 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft), as well as provision for an additional 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft). [4] [5] [2] Placing the concourse directly above each platform minimizes passenger walking, without prioritizing the communities at one end of the station over the other.
Head office of the Ferrovie dello Stato in Rome An ETR 500 train running on the Florence–Rome high-speed line near Arezzo, the first high-speed railway opened in Europe [8] An Italian local train Minuetto. 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 ...
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.