Ostiense Station
unknown (Italian)
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Alternative Title
Roma Ostiense
Date
1922-1938Description
The "Pegasus" relief, frontal view; The period from 1922 to 1939 was heavy with important construction and modernisation programmes for the Italian railways, which incorporated also 400 km (249 miles) from the Ferrovie Reali Sarde of Sardinia. The most important programme was that of the direttissime Rome-Naples and Bologna-Florence: the first reduced the travel time from the two cities by an hour and a half; the second, announced proudly as "constructing Fascism", included the longest gallery of the world. Electrification on 3,000 V direct current was introduced, which later supplanted the existing three-phase system. Other improvements included automatic blocks, light signals, construction of numerous main stations (Milano Centrale, Napoli Mergellina, Roma Ostiense and others) and other technical updates. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 2/3/2008)
Type of Work
railroad stationSubject
architectural exteriors, mythology (Classical), Fascism, Transportation, Novecento italiano, Modernist
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