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    The NaplesPortici railway (Italian: ferrovia Napoli–Portici) was the first Italian railway line, built by the Bayard Company and opened in 1839. It now...
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    Filosa at the Vigliena dock, near Naples, the first railway in the Italian peninsula (1839), which connected Naples to Portici, and the first iron-suspension...
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    first city on the Italian peninsula to have a railway, with the construction of the NaplesPortici railway. After the Expedition of the Thousand led by...
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    The National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa (Italian: Museo Nazionale Ferroviario di Pietrarsa) is close to the NaplesPortici railway. The museum is housed...
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    cut taxes and expenditures, had the first railway in Italy built (between Naples and the royal palace at Portici), his fleet had the first steamship in the...
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    France. Railways were introduced in Italy when it was still a divided country. The first line to be built on the peninsula was the NaplesPortici line,...
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    Ironworks England for the NaplesPortici railway in 1839 named Bayard and Vesuvio. A replica of 'Bayard is at the Naples Railway Museum. Most of the earliest...
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    second in Italy after the NaplesPortici railway. Milan's first railway station, Porta Nuova, formed part of the new railway. It was placed outside the...
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    divided country. The first line to be built on the peninsula was the NaplesPortici line, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which was 7.64 km (4.75 mi)...
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    the Austrians defeated Murat. In 1839 Naples was the first city in Italy to have a railway, with the Napoli-Portici line. In spite of a little cultural...
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