Reggio di Calabria Centrale railway station Reggio di Calabria Centrale railway station Reggio di Calabria Centrale railway station () is the main railway station of the Italian city of Reggio, in Calabria. It is the most important station of its region and is owned by the "Ferrovie dello Stato", the national rail company of Italy. The station was opened on 3 June 1866, as southern terminal of the first track of the Ionian Railway to Catanzaro, Crotone, Sybaris and Taranto. In 1881 it was linked to the port with a link from Reggio Lido to Reggio Marittima, the port station. The northern track to Villa San
Giuseppe Bianchi (engineer) Giuseppe Bianchi (engineer) Giuseppe Bianchi (26 August 1888 – Milan, 20 July 1969) was an Italian railway engineer on the Ferrovie dello Stato between 1913 and 1946. Born at Imola, Bianchi graduated in electrical mechanical engineering at the University of Turin in 1912. Offered a job by Ferrovie dello Stato, the operator of the Italian rail network, he was first assigned to the select committee for the electrification of Rome. In 1920 Bianchi was transferred to the office for locomotive research within the Servizio materiale e trazione (Rolling Stock and Locomotive Service) at Florence (where it still resides, under a