Circumvesuviana

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Circumvesuviana
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“Circumvesuviana ( Italian pronunciation: [ ˌtʃirkuɱvezuˈvjaːna ] ) is a 142-kilometre-long (88 mi) railway network in the east of the Naples metropolitan area, operated by EAV . Electrically powered throughout, the system uses the narrow gauge of 950 mm ( 3 ft 1 + 3 ⁄ 8 in ) and operates 142 km (88…”
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The GuardianMay 23

The train is ‘my time machine’: a tour of Naples’ hidden ancient wonders

A new film about this corner of southern Italy reveals rarely visited villas, seismic landscapes and a ‘civilisation buried mid-sentence’ – all accessible by train One by one, the visitors descend through a tight tunnel cut through volcanic rock into the damp foundations of the Teatro Romano buried beneath Herculaneum, with the weight of 2,000 years of city above them. “This is a time machine,”…

Narrow-gauge railway east to Pompei and Herculaneum

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