Avellino railway station Avellino railway station Avellino is the main railway station of the Italian city of Avellino, in the region of Campania. It is owned by the "Ferrovie dello Stato", the national rail company of Italy, and is classified "Silver". Situated in the western suburb of Avellino, 2.5 km from the city centre, the station also serves the town of Atripalda, whose territory borders with it. The end track of the RA2 motorway from Salerno is located 500 m south of the station. The station was opened in 1879, as the northern terminal of the line from Mercato San Severino, extended to
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