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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 station is located in the city of Afragola, in the Naples metropolitan area, and was developed to serve all high-speed trains on the Rome–Naples high-speed line, aside from those that do not start or finish at Napoli Centrale station, but instead operate over the Naples–Salerno high-speed line.
The Italian EMUs (elettrotreni), in particular, started the traditional vanguard position of Italy in the field: on 6 December 1937 an ETR 200 travelled on the Rome-Naples line at a speed of 201 km/h (125 mph) in the Campoleone-Cisterna section. [19] Two years later the same train reached 203 km/h (126 mph) on the Milan–Florence line.
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 ...
Being in the historic center of Naples, and being the terminus of the two railways, passenger traffic is very strong. The frequency of trains is one every 20 minutes for both the Cumana railway and the Circumflegrea railway. The station is frequented by 60,000 users daily, with a traffic of 200 trains per day.
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.
Italy's first Metropolitan railway (now Linea 2) was opened in Naples in 1925. Four funicular railways were opened between 1889 and 1931. Two of these link the residential area of Vomero to the historic centre of the city. One links Vomero with Chiaia and one, in the western part of the city, links Mergellina with Posillipo.
Napoli Gianturco is a railway station in Naples, Italy. It is served by the metropolitan railway service numbered as Line 2 on the Naples Metro. [1] [2] It takes its name from Via Gianturco, in the city's industrial area. From here, the trains passing through the railway link (now only underground line 2) could reach the lines for Cassino and ...