Railway Station

Despite this, the line represented the first rail link between Rome and the centers of the Pontine coast. The railway, consisting of a single track, reached Giulianello from Velletri, crossing a level crossing located near today’s sports field in via Velletri-Anzio; it entered the town through a splendid 5-arched bridge (still visible today) and entered the Piazzale della Stazione. After leaving Giulianello, the railway crossed, with another level crossing, the road to Rocca Massima and headed south where, at via Colle Illirio, there was the “La Buzzia” stop and continued its route towards Terracina through the stations of Cori, Cisterna, Norma- Ninfa, Sermoneta- Bassiano, Sezze Romano, Priverno, Sonnino, Frasso and La Fiora. In 1905 the management of the line passed to the newly formed FS and until the 1920s the line lived its sleepy life as a secondary railway. After the project to provide Terracina with a large port, and the reclamation of the Pontine marshes began, the new Italian government began to design a fast line that connected Rome with Naples through a more favorable route and in the plains passing through Campoleone / Formia. There were various causes that contributed to the definitive closure of the line in 1957; among these, undoubtedly, the automobile boom, the first cuts to secondary lines, the lack of electrification of the section in question, the company policies aimed at favoring aggregation towards new and more impressive railway routes (see the Rome-Campoleone section Terracina).