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Brescia Iseo Edolo

The Brescia-Iseo-Edolo railway line, at roughly 101 kilometres long, starts as an extension towards the Lombardy Prealps of a railway that crosses the Po Valley: in 1879 the Parma-Piadena-Brescia-Iseo line was included in a group of planned standard gauge lines, directly funded by the newly unified state.

Specifically, the section of railway that was to connect Brescia to the lake town of Iseo was put forward and supported by the Honourable Giuseppe Zanardelli, a key figure in Italian politics in the late 1800s. The line was opened on 30 May 1885 and the opening ceremony was held on 21 June. In 1888 work to connect the station of Iseo with the port was completed. At the same time, there was growing interest in an extension to Val Camonica, strongly supported by locals but also due to its strategic position (given the proximity of Edolo to the border with the Habsburg Empire).

Its operation was granted to the Società Nazionale Ferrovie e Tranvie SNFT and work began in 1905. The 4 July 1909 marked the railway’s long-awaited opening.

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