List of Italian rolling stock explained

List of Italian rolling stock. The following list includes rolling stock that works, or has worked, on the Italian national railway network Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and on private lines and lines in concession. The list is not exhaustive and additions are welcome.

Railways

The history of Italian railways may be divided into three periods:

Pre-1885, small railways were built, some privately owned and some state owned
1885–1905, the creation of the "great networks"
1905, nationalization

Abbreviations

FAS = Ferrovia Alessandria–Stradella
FS = Ferrovie dello Stato, Italian State Railways, established 1905
LVCI = Imperial-regia società privilegiata delle strade ferrate lombardo-venete e dell'Italia Centrale
RA = Rete Adriatica, Adriatic Network, 1885-1905
RM = Rete Mediterranea, Mediterranean Network, 1885-1905
SB = Südbahn, Southern Railway (Austria)
SFAI = Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia, Upper Italian Railways, 1865 to 1885
SFCS = Società per le Strade Ferrate Calabro-Sicule
SFM = Società per le Strade Ferrate Meridionali, 1862-1885
SFR = Società per le Strade Ferrate Romane, 1865-1885
- SFSP = Strade Ferrate dello Stato Piemontese SV = Società Veneta
VER = Victor Emmanuel Railway, 1853–1867, later SFCS

Locomotives

Rete Adriatica

Listed in order of Rete Adriatica (RA) number

FS	RA no.	Earlier nos.	Earlier nos.	Units	Date introduced
	RA 1-26		-	26	1863
	RA 31-52	In range SFAI 31–90		22	1857
Scrapped before 1905	RA 1101-1111		-	11	1877
	RA 1865–1900	-	-	36	1890

Rete Mediterranea

Listed in order of Rete Mediterranea (RM) number

FS	RM no.	Earlier nos.	Earlier nos.	Units	Date introduced	Wheels	Notes
	RM 7-14		-	8	1863
	RM 501–518	In range SFAI 31–90		18	1857
	in range RM 519-538	SFAI 91-105	SFSP 34-38 and 80-89	15	1853
	in range RM 519-538	SFAI 106-110	-	5	1864	2-2-2
	RM 1501-1573	SFAI	-	73	1873
FS 1181-1182	RM 2019-2020	SFAI 381-382		2	1858		10 units to Südbahn
	in range RM 2707-2715	SFAI 250-255	SFSP 99-104	6	1855
	in range RM 2707-2715	SFAI 256-258	VER	3	1860	0-4-2
	in range RM 2733–2773	in range SFAI 210–238	SFSP 1–8	8	1854	0-4-2
	in range RM 2733–2773	in range SFAI 210–238	FAS 10–13	4	1857	0-4-2
	in range RM 2733–2773	-	SFCS 1-10	10	1863	0-4-2
	in range RM 2733–2773	in range SFAI 210–238	-	18	?	0-4-2

Società Veneta

See main article: Rolling stock of Società Veneta.

Südbahn

FS	SB no.	Earlier nos.	Earlier nos.	Units	Date introduced	Wheels	Notes
	In range 18.467-18.499	-	-	32	1869
	SB Class 29	SB Class 23	-	26	1860