Cagliari railway station Cagliari railway station Cagliari is the main railway station of the Italian city of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia. It is owned by the "Ferrovie dello Stato", the national rail company of Italy, and is the most important station of its region. The station is sometimes unofficially named "Cagliari Centrale" and "Cagliari Piazza Matteotti". This second name is due to station's position on Giacomo Matteotti Square. The station was inaugurated in July 1879, as terminus of the central Sardinian line to Oristano, Ozieri and Olbia. In 1893 it was linked to the port for freight traffic. In the late 1980s,
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