ISBN 978-88-85068-38-4

Torino tram filobus metro

The book can be bought at main on-line bookshops, such as Webster and Libreria universitaria List price: 35 €.

The book can also be ordered filling in the order form and sending it to Etr

In Turin the book can be bought at the Zanaboni bookshop (corso Vittorio Emanuele, 41) or at the office of Atts (Sassi station) and at the stand of Atts during the shows. 

Torino tram filobus metro
Edited by Etr. 288 pages, 178 photos. 33 images 

ISBN 978-88-85068-38-4  

Torino tram filobus metro                
Turin tramway, trolleybus and underground network

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The history, during last 140 years, of public trasport network in Turin. It starts from the first horse tram line, opened in 1872, connecting piazza Castello to Barriera di Nizza to present ‘route 4’ from Falchera to Mirafiori; from one of first trolleybus put into operation in Turin around 1902 to automatic underground line, opened in the first years of XXI century.

In Torino tram filobus metro, Antonio Accattatis describes the history of tramway, trolleybus and underground network, with special attention to route changes over the years, to the different types of vehicles used and to some peculiarity or strangeness in routes. It’s a detailed work based on a careful collection of available documentation: municipality and local transport company publications, archive records, period newspapers and articles from specialized magazines.

The book is divided into six chapters: the first three describe the development of urban tramway network over three centuries and three concessionary companies; the last three describe the wide interurban tramway network, the small but interesting trolleybus network and the history of development of underground lines from the projects of the Sixties to recent realization.

As in previous book, Linee tranviarie a Torino, the first part of every chapter  is dedicated to the history of the network, then every route is described with full particulars

A wide and extensive photographic documentation enriches the book: nearly 180 photos, in black and white and in colour, half of them unpublished until now. And more than 30 pictures with routes and network plans.

In appendix we can find the colour tables (for a long time every route was identified with a colour), the list of links and rings during the unification of networks,  the night routes and the list of forced limits to tram service due to bombing during World War II.