IntroductionThis is our very first special edition blog post. Today, we are skipping aside from High Speed Rail and going on a fun trip to the smallest country in the world. Vatican City! You might be confused. Vatican City is extremely tiny and it is less than a square kilometre big but believe it or not, Vatican City actually has a railway. HistoryIf you’re good at geography, you might know that Vatican City is located inside Rome. This means that there are railways that come from Rome into Vatican City but these were built much later then the railway that we are talking about. We are talking about the old one built all the way back in 1929. A pope by the name Pope Gregory XVI hated the idea of having a railway from Rome and Italy to Vatican City. He died in 1846 and his successor Pope Pius IX took over. He tried to build a railway but the land he wanted to build it in was seized and the plan was forgotten. Circling back to 1929, The Directorate of New Railway Construction of the Ministry of Public Works of the Kingdom of Italy created a treaty. This treaty allowed Vatican City to build a railway. FactsWe now know how the rail was built so let’s look at other stuff. The rail is 1.19 kilometres long and you only travel a mere 624 metres when riding. On top of this, only one passenger train operates every week on a Saturday meaning that there are only 52 services each year. This service is actually operated as a tour in collaboration with Vatican Museums and the Italian Railway. This isn’t the only thing the line is used for. Many freight trains also come here.
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12/21/2021 10:41:51 pm
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