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Museo
Ferroviario Nazionale
di Pietrarsa
National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa

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The National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa stands on the site of the old Bourbon workshops of the State Railways where locomotives and carriages used to be built.
These travelled along the first Italian railway, the Naples - Portici line, inaugurated on the 4th October 1839.
The King Ferdinand II of Bourbon, sovereign of the Two Sicilies, because the dependence of his reign on foreign industries, would initiate a industrialisation process and the railway developing was one of the most important aspect.
The locomotive, called "Vesuviana", was built in Naples with pieces from England and was able to run since 60 Km/h. Carrozza reale: interno
In 1854 the Czar Nicholas I of Russia, visiting the workshops, asked the plan of the factory to reproduce it in his country.
The definitive closure of these workshops in 1975 was partly due to the need, a few years later, to ascertain which of the rooms were still usable for the realisation of the National Railway Museum.
In 1980 work began to renovate the vast area, situated between the railway, on the one side, and the sea on the other.
Once the restoration work was complete the locomotives now display were transported to Pietrarsa from all over the country.
These have been restored by State Railway technicians and workers.