Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia explained

The Società per le strade ferrate dell'Alta Italia (Upper Italian Railways, SFAI) was an Italian railway company from 1865 to 1885.

History

It was established on 1 July 1865 with 1057.5miles of line it acquired from the state railway of the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont) (453.5miles), the part of the state railway of the former Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (604miles) that had been absorbed into the Kingdom of Italy in 1859 after the Second Italian War of Independence and some other private railways. At its establishment, it included the Turin–Genoa, the Fréjus line, the Turin–Milan, Milan–Chiasso, Milan–Domodossola, Milan–Bologna and the Bologna–Pistoia lines.[1] After Austria's defeat in the Third Italian War of Independence in 1866, the railways of the Veneto (amounting to 230miles), including the Milan–Venice line, were transferred to the SFAI.[2] On 1 July 1885 its network was taken over by the Rete Mediterranea (Mediterranean Network) and the Rete Adriatica (Adriatic Network), with lines generally west of Milan going to the Rete Mediterranea.[3]

SFAI locomotives

See main article: List of Italian rolling stock.

The following list is incomplete.

SFAI nos. (1865)SFAI nos. (1869)Wheel arrangementNotesPicture
31-90?2-2-2Locomotives LVCI 1-50, 155-164
91-110?2-2-2FS Class 103
210-238?0-4-2FS Class 113
250-258?0-4-2Locomotives SFAI 250-258
259-264?0-4-2https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotiva_VE_28-33
301-311 ?2-4-0Locomotives SFAI 301-311
381-382Names: Ariosto and Raffaello2-4-0Locomotives LVCI 79-90
393?4-4-0https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotiva_FS_499
703-708767-7720-6-0FS Class 396
709-713, 718-757?0-6-0https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_LVCI_101-115,_120-149
714-717778-7810-6-0Locomotives LVCI 116-119
805-1000?0-6-0https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotiva_FS_215
1051-10701401-14200-4-0+0-4-0Mastodonte dei Giovi (locomotive)
1106-11151417-14260-6-0+0-6-0https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_SFAI_1106-1115
1181-1200?4-6-0FS Class 650
1281-13001201-12200-8-0FS Class 400
1400?0-4-0TLocomotive SFAI 1400
1404-1407?0-4-0https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_SFAI_1404-1407
1408-1411?0-6-0SThttps://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_SFAI_1408-1411
1461-1473?2-4-0https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotive_SFAI_1461-1473

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kalla-Bishop, P. M. . Italian Railways. 1971 . David & Charles. Newton Abbott, Devon, England . 0-7153-5168-0 . 40.
  2. Book: Kalla-Bishop, P. M. . Italian Railways. 1971 . David & Charles. Newton Abbott, Devon, England . 0-7153-5168-0 . 41.
  3. Book: Kalla-Bishop, P. M. . Italian Railways. 1971 . David & Charles. Newton Abbott, Devon, England . 0-7153-5168-0 . 52.