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Bayard Railway Station

  • Also Known As: La Prima Stazione ferroviaria d'Italia
  • Italian: Stazione Napoli al Carmine
  • Address: Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi
  • Vicinity: S of Napoli Porta Nolana
  • of Mercato in Naples
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

The First Railway Station of Italy

Bayard Railway Station, the first railway station in Italy, is a ruined 19th century Neoclassical style railroad depot in Naples, Italy. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1839/10/00 Sedigned by French engineer Armando Giuseppe Bayard de La Vingtrie, the Bayard Railway Station is built in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
1839/10/03 First section of the Naples-Portici railway is inaugurated. King Ferdinand II, engineers and military men arrive in Naples on the steam locomotive VESUVIUS from Granatello. The journey took just under ten minutes.
1860/09/07 Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives at the Bayard Naples Railway Station by train.
1943/03/28 The old Bayard Railway Station is heavily damaged by the explosion of the ship CATERINA COSTA loaded with German and Italian gasoline and diesel.

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Particulars for Bayard Railway Station:
Sight Category Building
Cultural Affiliation Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
Architectural Style Neoclassical
Area of Significance Railroad
Historic Use Railway Station
Disposition Ruin
Area of Significance Social History
Area of Significance Transportation




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