The Adriatic main line, extending mostly along the eastern Italian cost from Bologna to Lecce/Taranto, connects Northern Italy to Central Europe, with the network of southern Italian ports (Brindisi, Taranto, Gioia Tauro) and makes up an integral part of the system of freight corridors at a European level, known as the “Terfn network”.
In this context, a series of projects were planned, aiming to widen traffic size restrictions providing a route enabling the passage of road vehicles on drop-centre flatcars that have the widest allowed gauges and shipping containers of the “high-cube” type, loaded on carriages with standard floors.
Furthermore, infrastructure work has been planned on this Main line to complete the track-doubling on the stretches that are still single-track with relevant technological work over the whole line, aimed at giving the railway route the performance features necessary to act, in terms of passenger and freight traffic, as a main North-South link in the south-eastern corner of the country.
The main projects are:
• Adriatic main line tunnel adjustment to gauge C (work on
Castellano and
Cattolica tunnels)
•
Bologna-Baritechnological upgrade
• Track doubling,
Pescara- Bari (includes track doubling in Termoli-Lesina, Apricena-S.Severo and stretch to the north of Ortona)
•
Bari – Tarant track doubling (includes track doubling in
Bari S.Andrea-Bitetto,
Palagianello-Palagiano, bretella
Bellavista-Cagioni)
•
Bari-Lecce track doubling and electrification
| Adriatic main line tunnels, adjustment to gauge C
|
83 MIO €
|
| Castellano tunnel
|
2008
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| Track doubling on Pescara- Bari
|
5 MIO €
|
| Lesina-Apricena
|
2003
|
| fine detailed design for Termoli-Lesina track doubling
|
2005
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| Ortona-Casalbordino
|
2006
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| Port of Vasto-Vasto
|
2006
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| Apricena-S.Severo
|
2007
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| executive design for elimination of 4 Level Crossings in Barletta
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2008
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| Bari – Taranto track doubling
|
496 MIO €
|
| Bitetto-Acquaviva delle Fonti
|
2005
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| Acquaviva delle Fonti- Gioia del Colle
|
2005
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| Massafra-Bellavista-Taranto
|
2007
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| Castellaneta-Palagianello-Palagiano-Massafra
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2008
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| Bari – Lecce track doubling and electrification
|
228 MIO €
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| Bari – Lecce track doubling and electrification
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2006
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| Adriatic main line tunnels, adjustment to gauge C
|
83 MIO €
|
| Cattolica tunnel
|
2011
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| Bologna-Bari technological upgrade
|
295 MIO €
|
| traffic command and control system (CCS) across the whole line
|
2010
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| Track doubling on the Pescara- Bari
|
501 MIO €
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| track doubling north of Ortona
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2014
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| Bari – Taranto track doubling
|
496 MIO €
|
| Bellavista- Cagioni junction
|
2010
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| Bari S.Andrea-Bitetto
|
2013
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Overall cost for the work is equal to 1603 MIO €.
