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Chivasso–Alessandria railway

railway line in Piedmont, Italy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ15360975 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Chivasso–Alessandria railway is a railway line in Piedmont, Italy.

History

The section from Valenza to Alessandria was opened on 5 June 1854 as part of the railway from Alessandria to Novara and Arona. The section from Casale Monferrato to Valenza was opened on 22 March 1857 as part of the railway from Vercelli to Valenza. The section from Chivasso to Casale came into operation on 30 April 1887.

See also

List of railway lines in Italy

References

Footnotes

Sources

RFI, ed. (December 2003). Fascicolo Linea 5 (Chivasso–Alessandria) (in Italian). Rete Ferroviaria Italiana.

Tuzza, Alessandro, ed. (1927).

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“Chivasso–Alessandria railway” enters the record as railway line in Piedmont, Italy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chivasso, Alessandria and railway can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chivasso–Alessandria railway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.