Sassari railway station 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 side of the city and in front of the downtown,
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane The workforce was reduced to half: from 216,310 employees in 1988 to 112,018 in 1999. Divisions were created to rationalize the management. The company was privatized in 1992 with the creation of the new Ferrovie dello Stato SpA, a joint-stock company, following a European guideline. However, the privatization was only formal, since shares were still owned by the Italian Government. On 1 June 2000, the company's two main divisions, service and infrastructure, were separated and two different independent companies were created: Trenitalia, responsible for transport service, and Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, responsible for the management of the rail infrastructure. Both companies