24 Spring 2018 | Metro Report International NAPOLI Master Plan run by national rail operator Trenitalia, and CTP manages some bus routes in Napoli and around Caserta. Integrated ticketing can be used on all lines. Developing the existing metro The master plan includes the exten- sion of the city’s only existing heavy metro line. Line 1 is to become a cir- cular route with the connection of its termini at Piscinola and Garibaldi via the airport. The first section of Line 1 opened in 1993, and the most recent extension was inaugurated in December 2013. The opening of Duomo station, on the most recent extension, has been delayed by archaeological works, and is expected next year. Line 1 is currently 18 km long and serves 18 stations, carrying 110 000 passengers a day. Signalling on Line 1 allows 3 min headways, and 110 m long platforms can take six-car trainsets. However, as no rolling stock was procured for the latest extension, services run at 8 min headways and trains have been short- ened to four cars, explains ANM’s Met- ro Operations & Maintenance Manag- er Vincenzo Orazzo. Even maintaining the existing fleet is a challenge, as spare parts are hard to find for the 88 cars that Ansaldo Trasporti and Fiore supplied in 1991-92. Besides this, the municipality, which owns ANM, is facing financial difficulties. The situation should improve fol- lowing the signing of a €98m contract in June 2016 for CAF to supply 10 six-car trainsets, with an option for 10 more. These are to be delivered by 2019, with the first expected to enter service in September that year and the last 10 Bringing together months later. Work on the Line 1 extension is di- vided into two lots. The municipality is in charge of delivering the Garibaldi – Capodichino section, on which the con- Napoli’s networks tractor is a consortium of Ascosa Fer- roviaria, Ansaldo STS, AET, Imeco, B A master plan for Napoli envisages a 10-line metro network, with & P and LDB. Centro Direzionale will provide interchange with Circumvesu- extensive use being made of existing suburban lines in and around the viana services, which have been serving capital of Campania. Benjámin Zelki reports. the station since August 2014. The Piscinola – Capodichino works package is owned by the Campania Metro Line 2 10-line metro network is an is operated by frequencies. Most operate only between region, with EAV acting as contractor. ambitious goal for a city of Trenitalia. 06.00 and 22.00, with the last trains Work was suspended on both sections, only 957 000 inhabitants, to several eastern suburbs departing as but eventually restarted in early 2017 but this is what Napoli’s early as 20.00. and is estimated to be completed by transport master plan envisages. The This situation has come about ow- 2022. At that point EAV’s MetroCam- Avision includes the upgrade of several ing to a shortage of funds and available pania NordEst line, which runs from suburban railways that serve the metro- rolling stock for the operators. ANM Piscinola to Aversa, would become a politan area of 3·1 million. manages all the tram routes, funiculars, branch of Line 1. These aims contrast with the existing trolleybuses, and metro lines 1 and 6, as EAV operates MetroCampania Nord- transport situation. One metro line, all well as most bus routes. The suburban Est along with two other suburban lines tram lines and three of the city’s six trol- railways and most regional bus routes to the north of Napoli. The former heavy leybus routes are currently suspended, are operated by Campania region trans- railway reopened as a metro line link- and the remaining services run at low port operator EAV. Metro Line 2 is ing Piscinola with Mugnano in 2005 Metro Report International | Spring 2018 25 Master Plan NAPOLI following a 29-year closure; an extension The single-track line to Benevento to Aversa Centro opened in 2009. via Cancello was also opened in 1913. MetroCampania NordEst uses 12 Of the ageing fleet of eight trainsets, MA 100 twin-car trainsets from the four are in service on the average day, in 1970s, procured second-hand from addition to nine Alfa 2 vehicles ordered Roma. Services used to run every from Titagarh Firema Adler under a 15 min, but now run every 30 min, as €52m contract. These were produced several trains are unavailable, explains at its nearby Caserta plant, and the first Mario D’Avino, from EAV’s Railway three vehicles entered service in Febru- Transport Division. The line is used by ary and March 2017. Services run 12 only 9 000 passengers a day. times a day in each direction. Plans exist to extend MetroCam- Metro Line 6 is also to be extended, pania NordEst to Santa Maria Capua from Mergellina to Municipio, where Vetere along the former alignment of interchange will be provided with Line the original railway dating from 1913. 1. Work on the extension started in 2002, The northern part of this route, between but was suspended, and completion Photos: Benjámin Zelki Santa Maria Capua Vetere and Piedi- is now envisaged in April 2019. If this Work is underway to monte Matese, operates as a branch off deadline is missed, the city will have to make metro Line 1 Services on Line 6 have been com- the Napoli – Roma main line. There are pay back the €90m of EU funding that into a circular route. pletely suspended since 2011, and are 10 direct train pairs between Napoli and it received for the project. Ansaldo STS only due to resume once the second Piedimonte Matese, worked with 14 is the contractor. Once extended, Line 6 phase opens. As the route overlaps with diesel multiple-units mostly from the will be 5·5 km long with a design capac- Line 2 and the Cumana suburban line, 1950s and 1960s, of which four are in ity of 7 200 passengers/h per direction, it has suffered from low ridership. Line service on an average day. with trains running at 4½ min headways. 6 was originally due to open in time Cartography by Andy Hellawell Santa Maria Capua Vetere Caserta Roma © Railway Gazette 2018 Villa Literno, Formia NAPOLI Aversa Aversa 1435 mm gauge 0 1 2 km Centro Metro Ottocalli service suspended under construction Capodimonte Poggioreale 2 Aversa 10 Ippodromo planned 9 Tram - service suspended Carlo III Main line operated as metro to operate as metro Miracoli Tribunale Sant’Antimo- Other main lines Piazza Cavour Foria - Orto 1,2 Centro Sant’Arpino under construction Botanico Direzionale MetroCampania High speed line Materdei Centrale NordEst under construction Museo Frattamaggiore- 950 mm gauge Benevento, Gianturco Grumo Nevano Main line to operate as metro Foggia, Garibaldi Bari Porta Other lines F Dante Nolana 10 2 Duomo Volta- Via Funiculars Napoli - Montesanto Lucci Gianturco Afragola AV 2,4 Giugliano Marina- Università Carmine Acerra, Caserta, Toledo 6 Frosinone, 1,4 Afragola Marittima Garibaldi Roma F3 Municipio Casulnuovo Mugnano Afragola Chiaia Casoria- La Pigna Casoria Afragola Casulnuovo Piazza Dante Pomigliano, Casoria Nola, Baiano 0 1 2 3 4 5 km Casoria - Centro Salice depot Piscinola/ San Pietro Scampia Regina Chiaiano 1 Miano Margherita Casavatore - Salerno Villa Literno, Formia N San Pietro Cassano - Volla Secondigliano Berlingieri depot Quarto Capodichino Frullone Di Vitorio Capodichino Aereoporto Licola, Quarto Leonardo Stadera Torrgaveta Officina Lieti Nicolardi Bianchi 1 Madonnelle Quarto di Colli Aminei ails Botteghelle Marano t 9 Poggioreale Policlinico Circumvesuviana 5 See inset Pisani for de Argine Rione Alto Palasport Pianura Salvator Museo Cercola La Trencia Rosa Villa Visconti Circumflegrea Montedonzelli Centrale 4 Ponticelli Sarno Medaglie d’Oro Garibaldi Officine Vesuvio Quattro Porta Nolana Ponticelli De Meis Triano Montesanto Soccavo Giornate Cilea depot Bartolo F2 depot Vanvitelli Barra Longo Monte Piave F3 6 F1 San Giovanni Sant’Angelo Corso a Teduccio Santa Vittorio Emanuele Municipio Maria 2,4 3 San Giorgio Pozzuoli Parco San Giovanni a Teduccio del Pozzo Fuori- 2 a Cremano Cantieri San Paulo Circumvesuviana grotta depot Cumana S Pasquale Terracina San Giovanni-Barra 2 Pozzuoli AAugustougusto Arco Mirelli Fusaro, Solfatara Zoo-Edenlandia 7 Mergelina Cavali Torrgaveta Mostra Lala di Bronzo Giochi del Mediterraneo F 6 4 Pozzuoli Bagnoli-Agnano Leopardi Pietarsa- Portici Torre, Terme San Giorgio Bellavista Sorrento, Campi Flegrei Gulf of Naples Poggio- Cappuccini a Cremano Dazio 8 Cavalleggeri D’Aosta Portici marino Gerolomini Via Libertà Bagnoli Agnano depot Castellammare di Stabia 26 Spring 2018 | Metro Report International NAPOLI Master Plan for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, but the initial 2·2 km section with four stations SURFACE NETWORKS eventually opened in 2007. Line 6 is worked by six T67 articu- Trams, trolleybuses and funiculars lated light metro cars made by Officine Napoli once had extensive tram and trolleybus in 1999-2002, and CTP owns three AnsaldoBreda Fiore, Ansaldo and Stanga in 1990-94. networks, but both have been significantly cut F19 and 10 Ganz-Solaris Trollinos from 2004. Station platforms are long enough for back, and all tram routes are currently suspended Despite the recent closures, the municipality is three-car sets, but only single units were for unknown reasons. planning new trolleybus and tram routes. A tram used when the line was operational. The first trams ran in the city in 1875. The most line is proposed to connect Marano, Mugnano and A new fleet is to be purchased for the recent closures took place in 2000, but in 2013 Line Villaricca in the northwest with Piscinola metro opening of the extension. This is to be 1 was extended from Emiciclo Poggioreale to Via station. A trolleybus route is planned to replace Stadera.