Nature takes back the “suspended line” that cuts the connections between Alessandria and Alba

PROVINCE OF ALEXANDRIA – É “desolating” but at the same time fascinating to look at nature takes back the long forgotten tracks which extend into the countryside Oviglio, Bergamasco and Carentino. The grass has made its way between the roadbeds and stands unkempt on the railway lines. In stations that have long been orphaned by travellers, and swallowed up by vegetation, dry branches climb and get tangled on the walls. Since now the final stretch of the Alessandria-Cavallermaggiore has been suspended for more than 10 years and it also leaves a precious item “pending”. railway connection between Alessandria and Alba.

The our reader Daniele he grew up in the Alessandria countryside where the line’s trains once traveled and it is among the citizens that you seeThe reactivation of the still abandoned Nizza Monferrato-Cantalupo section would be required, in the direction of Alessandria. Daniele also keeps up to date on the Facebook pages dedicated to the Piedmont railways and in recent days he has reached out Canelli to follow the conference organized by Comis, the Coordination of integrated and sustainable mobility, and from Valle Belbo Railways Committee, in collaboration with Together for Canelli. In that meeting, he said, the future and projects linked to the railway junction were discussed and the voices of those who would like to travel again along the entire line between Alessandria and Alba joined together because they believe in the importance of a “more sustainable mobility” and in opportunities”tourist and economic” of a railway connection between the two Piedmontese cities.

In the stretch immersed in the vineyards of the Langhe and in the hills of Barbaresco, a UNESCO Heritage area, they have been traveling for a few years historic trains and starting from Turin you can also take tourist trips to discover the “underground cathedrals of Canelli”. The last stretch towards Alessandria, however, remains forgotten. Those “suspended” tracks, our reader highlighted, cut off connections with the capital of the Langhe and also a possible extension towards Tortona and from there towards Milan, our reader highlighted: “There was talk of using historic and tourist trains also on the last stretch towards Alessandria but the tracks remain abandoned. If you cannot, or do not want, to invest in the reactivation of the railway line, at least create cycle paths or, at the very least, ensure that RFI ensures adequate cleaning and maintenance along the tracks”, urged our reader.