Menaggio - Porlezza Railway
A brief history of the Menaggio - Porlezza Railway 1884 - 1966.
Welcome! The large lakes lying in the foothills of the Alps north of Milan and near the border between Italy and Switzerland have been popular tourist destinations for over 100 years. The development of this tourist traffic owes much to a small narrow gauge railway of which little trace now remains. This article briefly describes that railway and its history.
Contents
Introduction
Construction
The route
Locomotives
Carriages and wagons
The train service 1885-1918
The train service 1918-1939
Menaggio station
Porlezza station
Signals, floods and accidents
Remains of the railway (2006)
Bibliography
Menaggio station 1920s
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