“La Traversata”, as the line was affectionately nicknamed, is still hard to describe, other than by expressing regret for its closure.

The importance of this line was never sufficiently recognised; it ran through places that would stand to benefit enormously, in the present day, from an alternative service making travel easier following the disproportionate urban development of the past fifty years.
This development was of course not foreseen at the time, and all we have left of this route today is a few pictures, testifying to our regrettable and irremediable errors of the past.