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The Opicina Tram

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30907 said:
Hi and welcome to the forum. I am no expert on Italy but:

I presume Sissa means the International School for Advanced Studies SISSA? If so, the tramway follows the main road quite closely and crosses your access road Via Boromeo, so that's ruled out.

You can certainly see the historic Transalpina railway down to Campo Marzio. A quick Google suggests the line has been reopened for freight traffic, but not for passengers; there is also a railway museum at CM.

I wonder if you saw a single locomotive running down or up the steep gradient? Or a railcar (did it have windows all along? If, so, yes it was!) - perhaps to take staff to and from CM, or for driver training? Or possibly an historic car )from the railway museum, but that seems less likely.
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Hello, thanks a lot for your replies. Yes, Sissa = Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati. I think it had windows all along, but I am not completely certain. I only saw the car once, although I walked past there every day for a month. The railway track I saw passes underneath Via Boromeo, and in fact the bus stop nearby is called "via Bonomea 184 (ponte ferroviario)", because the road goes over the tracks there. I think the coordinates of the railway bridge is approximately 45°40'40.0"N 13°46'24.3"E. I tried to trace the tracklines on google maps in either direction , which is how came to my initial conclusion that it somehow connected CM to Opicina.

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(railway bridge behind sissa)

Perhaps it is a tram. However, the Youtube video I saw of the tram route (as recommended above) seems to pass through completely different locales (closer to via Commerciale) so I'm a bit confused.
 
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JB_B said:
Immediately pre-Covid the FS foundation was planning to start running historic trains from Campo Marzio up to Opicina

( see e.g. https://www.triesteprima.it/cronaca/transalpina-campo-marzio-trieste.html )

Could the train you saw have been running in preparation for those services?
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Oh, that sounds like it would be really fun to take that trip if it were to happen. It seems to make more sense than freight - I was thinking the one car couldn't carry much, plus surely it would be easier by road for that small amount of cargo. One of my colleagues also saw the train once, a couple weeks before me, and he also said it was a single car. The car I saw was going very fast, which surprised me. Before I saw the car, somehow I thought it was an old disused bridge, no longer fit for service, or only suitable for slower speeds. In fact, I had wondered if it would be feasible to walk along the tracks as a short cut, but having seen the car hurtling along, I guess that would be a really bad idea, unless you were aware of the timetable, since there would be no way to get out of the way on that bridge.

30907 said:
Yes, the tram is on the inland side of SISSA.

https://www.openrailwaymap.org/mobile.php?
shows much more clearly than Googlemaps the position of the two routes.
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That's a very nice map! It even shows bridges and tunnels and that. Thanks for making me aware of it.
 
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Tren said:
Hello, thanks a lot for your replies. Yes, Sissa = Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati. I think it had windows all along, but I am not completely certain. I only saw the car once, although I walked past there every day for a month. The railway track I saw passes underneath Via Boromeo, and in fact the bus stop nearby is called "via Bonomea 184 (ponte ferroviario)", because the road goes over the tracks there. I think the coordinates of the railway bridge is approximately 45°40'40.0"N 13°46'24.3"E. I tried to trace the tracklines on google maps in either direction , which is how came to my initial conclusion that it somehow connected CM to Opicina.

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(railway bridge behind sissa)

Perhaps it is a tram. However, the Youtube video I saw of the tram route (as recommended above) seems to pass through completely different locales (closer to via Commerciale) so I'm a bit confused.
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The bridge pictured is on the Transalpina line, with a standard FS overhead electrification mast visible.
 
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