Naples Station (Bayard)

The station was activated in 1839 at the opening of the Naples-Portici railway, the first section of the Naples-Nocera line completed in 1844. The Naples station of the Bayard company (also known as Naples al Carmine, to distinguish it from the other city stations) was a railway station in Naples, the terminus of the Naples-Nocera railway, the initial Naples-Portici section of which was activated in 1839 and constitutes the oldest railway trunk line in Italy. From 1843 the station was joined on the north side by the other Neapolitan station, the terminus of the railroad to Caserta; the two stations were connected by a siding. Following the concentration of the two railway lines in the new Naples Centrale station (1866),[1] the station lost its function as a passenger terminus and was downgraded to a service facility. Severely damaged by the bombing of 1943, in particular by the explosion of the ship Caterina Costa; and by the 1980 Irpinia earthquake, the station è today reduced to the state of ruins, in a state of severe decay. Large parts of the building have been demolished. A few meters from the ruin is a plaque commemorating the arrival in town of Giuseppe Garibaldi, who arrived precisely by train on September 7, 1860.[2]