1939-45. Via Arniense-Scuola Elementary, Piazza Garibaldi. The Tram.
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I quote some parts of my "2nd World War " September 9. It was about 12, the day was sunny we boys were in the square in front of the tram shed, when we saw a column of cars coming from Port-Arniense Via S. Anna and was heading toward us. The Via Alessandro Valignani Father was not yet paved and the passage of this column drive had raised a great cloud of dust, all the cars stopped almost up to my house, practically in front hospital, then being transferred. The railway-Chieti Chieti Scalo was still running (soon to be dismantled by German sappers) and flanked the road. "
What about the electric railway-station Chieti Chieti Scalo. In the early twentieth century the city yearning for a place among the small provincial towns and the railroad seemed a means of communication with the lower part of town to give a better boost to the economic life of that time.
The opera was inaugurated in June 1905 by King Vittorio Emanuele III and Queen Elena, the route was from Piazza Vittorio Emanuele (terminus) or Piazza Grande, Via Arniense archdiocesan seminary-wide Carisio, Port S.Anna-Primary Schools, via Valignani then to the pigeon-shooting along the barracks Berardi, off-S.Anna cemetery then swerved to the left and headed towards the Tricalle (upper zone) to set out into the rural area and down along the bolt, main road connecting Chieti Scalo, Chieti, and arrive at the railway station
There were several stops but the most important were the terminus in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele, the throw of the tram route Valignani, Madonna delle Grazie and the descent of the stud.
child given the proximity of the station-shed knew all the people including the head of the station and then we knew everything about cars. On the square in front of the throw There were also trade for freight wagons, in fact, the service was not only passengers but also of goods loaded and unloaded to and from Chieti Scalo.
of us does not remember driving the car with 1st and 2nd class seats with colored and drawn carriage or wagon and engaged with their balconies at the beginning and end of the car, the seats of the lower class were made of wood. In short, we loved this railway and our childhood and adolescence have grown with them. Many people know these cars might have seen them for some photos or postcards, but instead we have seen, touched, and also analyzed in them. They were there within our reach, but always with care and never with confidence. Certainly there have been cases of serious accident and someone even almost before our eyes. Several misfortunes occurred because these people took or tried to climb into the tram ride, or because he was distracted or because they are still kids who inadvertently ventured between the rails. I will say that some of my mates were training in the biggest leap on or off the cars.
Returning to the scheduled end of the glorious tram, one day came the German engineers who began to remove the rails and sleepers with their levers and special machines, starting from elementary schools to-door S.Anna Valignani away.
We looked at them dumbfounded!
The tracks were removed just from the point where he is now the car, the remaining tracks were taken to Largo Carisio after so many years. But many sections were not removed and uprooted. Both had achieved their aim, to prevent the movement of the service. Actually I did not understand why it was done!
The road, as we see, was not paved at all and the right was the "Semi" which we see only a glimpse, it is now.
Then my elementary school. It has not changed at all and even there we can see in the picture that represents the current status. Via Arniense we can say that nothing has changed in the general structure, the buildings and the church of S. Antonio Abate show up well. For the house, while the trees were missing while the seats of concrete that now, if in the meantime have called, are not there.
A large crowd in the month of June 1944 had gathered awaiting the entry of Italian troops with the body of Liberation "Nimbus" at the top and the allies and then the tanks "Sherman" creaking and rumbling that came up from Valignani away. They were all (second picture) where there is the sidewalk and fence in the former house and a photo of the event can be viewed on page. 191 from the book by Angelo Meloni, "Chieti, Open City," Art Printers, Publishers, Pescara 1947. A devoted reader of my columns I had written about: "..." It 's the sign xxxxx says he played in Chieti before the Second World War' was a paratrooper and was the first to enter in Chieti in the liberation war was over ..! Piazza Garibaldi says that there was a lady with a bouquet of flowers that gave the soldiers and he was the first. "
On the train, wanted to destroy any communication structure, you could not do anything and this made us think of uprooting. It was the awareness that something is changing?
was a sign of the war between our houses, there was growing fast? I say yes! But I do not know what happened to our tram, and I hope someday to find out.
After the war, mass motorization and also all the choices made were for the development of road transport and was the inevitable replacement of the tram with a trolley bus. Was approved, perhaps because he had to go through the course Marrucino, then took off after several years, stopped by the course and the course was moved outside the city center. Then on the tram line was attempted during the next few nods and was dismissed as "obsolete" and I do not think have been far-sighted and have to get carried away by the modernity of the trolley! My personal opinion was and still is, that this type of structure tramway was upgraded and renovated and restored the missing sections of track, maybe it does not pass through the center and then extend to the territory. So to me a missed opportunity.
(LE)
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