The Turin-Ceres is a line railway of Province of Turin currently managed by Gruppo Torinese Trasporti (GTT) in the past was run by the company SATTI , successor to the FTC in 1981 (Turin, Northern Railway) in 1967. The line was built gradually: starting with Turin, 18 April 1868 was inaugurated the first stretch of railway between the station of Porta Milano and Venaria , 1 December 1868 you arrive up to Caselle and 28 February 1869 reach Cirié , for a total of 21.343 km and 5 stations: Madonna Country to 3.239 km, Venaria (7.252 km), Caselle (13.270 km), San Maurizio Canavese (18.317 km) and Cirié ; station Borgaro (9.260 km) will be built only in 1870 As the town of Borgaro Torinese had not initially paid contributions for the construction of the line, while the Turin Dora station (2.236 km) was only one stop. In
1876 (August 6) the line is brought up to Lanzo Torinese the presence of the President of the Council of Ministers and Depretis 1913 Eng. Alberto Scotti finalizes the design of the railway to Ceres : thanks to the collaboration of Austrian prisoners of war in June 1915 the railway reaches Germagnano and 17 June 1916 completes the entire line mountainous with stretches maximum gradient of 35 ‰, curves of 200 m radius and total length of about 44 km.
On October 6, 1920 the Turin-Ceres was the first Railways Organization in the world to adopt electric traction DC High Voltage (4000 V).
A special feature of the railway line is that all stations in the mountain section, from that of Lanzo to that of Ceres were built between 1886 and 1918 in Swiss style with a rectangular , the waiting rooms of the first and second class accommodation for the caretaker in the first and second floor and roof with four slopes.
Four stations are larger ( Lanzo, Germagnano , Pessinetto and Ceres) and the other 4 ( Funghera , Traves, Losa and Mezzenile ) are smaller, while maintaining the same characteristics with regard to plant (no double waiting room), facades and roofs.
Another peculiarity of the line is a single view of the viaduct with 50 m of reinforced concrete on Stura di Val Grande to Ceres, 190 meters long.
Until 1988 the line runs from the station of Turin Cirié-Lanzo located in Corso Giulio Cesare close of Porta Palazzo and along the route branched racordi several rail companies: one for the Arsenal in Piazza Borgo Dora, one for the gasworks (hereinafter Italgas ) in Corso Regina Margherita 52 (plant reached with a bridge over the Dora Riparia ), together with those of Mont Cenis and TMJ Workshops Course Tortona, for the company and the company Gilardini NAFTA): This connection will be discontinued February 5, 1968. Other connections along the line are those for Ferriere FIAT (at the Madonna di Campagna ) for SNIA Viscose and Manufactures of Martiny Venaria for the Manufacture St. Maurizio in San Maurizio Canavese for the mill of Bosso Mathi, for amiantifera of Balangero for the mill Germagnano and that for the talc mine of Pessinetto . In 1967 he was also made a connection which, just upstream from Madonna Country led to the municipal slaughterhouse in via Traves. The freight ceases in the mid-eighties and now the line is crossed only by passenger trains. In 1967
with Ministerial Decree the line was taken directly to the government commissioner Management and 1981 passes in the management SATTI .
the late '80s the line has been extensively renovated and buried in the town of Turin ; concurrently work was abandoned the station in Torino Cirié -Lanzo and the terminus was moved back to the station turin Dora, built for the occasion as well as that of Venaria Rigola- Stadium.
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