Sassari railway station and Cagliari. The adjacent tram-train stop provides for urban services. Sassari railway station Sassari is the main railway station of the Italian city of Sassari, the second largest city of Sardinia. It is owned by the "Ferrovie dello Stato" (FS), the national rail company of Italy, and also by the "Ferrovie della Sardegna" (FdS). The station was inaugurated in 1884, when the FS line from Cagliari was completed. In 1888 it became the terminal of the Sassari-Alghero line, owned by FdS. During the Second World War, on 14 May 1943, it was damaged during a bombardment. Located in the north-western
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