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Encyclopedia > Ferrovie dello Stato
Ferrovie dello stato (FS)
Image:FS-logo.PNG
Type Corporation (Capital Stock 100% Italian State)
Founded 1905 in Rome
Headquarters Rome, Italy
Key people Innocenzo Cipolletta (President), Mauro Moretti
Industry Rail transport
Products Rail transport, Cargo transport, Services, more...
Employees 99.305
Website FS - Corporate web site
Tickets - Timetable
The FS rail station of Trieste

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The FS is organised as a group with the following principal divisions:

  • Trenitalia: goods and passengers
  • Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (Italian Railway Network): national railway infrastructure
  • Italferr: engineering
  • Ferservizi: non-core services
  • GrandiStazioni (Large Stations): manages the 13 largest railway stations
  • CentoStazioni [100 Stations]: manages the 103 medium-sized railway stations
  • Sogin: road transport services
  • Fercredit: financial services

The Italian rail network includes 16,178 km of standard gauge lines, of which 10,688 km are electrified at 3 kV, DC. Trenitalia logo. ... Italian partly state-owned railway network, formerly part of Ferrovie dello Stato. ... As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the two rails of the track) which should be used. ...


Trenitalia traffic (2002 figures):

  • Passengers: 492 million (+4.2% on 2001)
  • Goods: 73.6 million tons (-5.1% on 2001)

Rolling stock:

  • Locomotives: 4,500
  • Passenger cars: 10,000
  • Goods wagons: 50,000

See also

// Railways were introduced in Italy when it was still a divided country. ... Transport in Italy // Railways total: 19,394 km, also on Sardinia and Sicily. ...

External link

  • Italian State Railways (FS)

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This is a further element of novelty in national bodies in view to be privatised (all except Ferrovie dello Stato).
Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) is the national company managing public railway transport, but FS also deals with maritime transport, both projecting and realising new lines and new plants.
The separated venture for telecommunication is called Telecomunicazioni Sistemi Ferroviari (TSF): Ferrovie dello Stato concluded an agreement with Infostrada (75% Olivetti, 25% Mannesmann) for the implementation of a fibre optic network for the provision of telecommunication services.
Ferries from Italy to Sicily across the Strait of Messina (1832 words)
The history of train-ferry services of Ferrovie dello Stato goes back to the years between 1893 and 1899 when it starts the train-ferry service across the Street of Messina.
Nowadays Bluvia is the company which employs the ferry-fleet of R.F.I. Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, the infrastructure group of the Italian Railways, Ferrovie dello Stato.
Ferrovie dello Stato exploit also train-ferry services between Sardinia and the mainland of Italy, some of the ferries can be used on both routes.
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