FS Class 113

The FS Class 113 was a class of small 0-4-2 steam locomotives that the Italian state railways, the Ferrovie dello Stato, inherited from older railway companies when the network was nationalised in 1905. All forty were built by Gio. Ansaldo & C. between 1854 and 1869. The first eight, delivered in 1854 and 1855 for the Piedmontese state railways, included the celebrated Sampierdarena, the first entirely Italian locomotive turned out by Giovanni Ansaldo's factory. Further batches served the Alessandria to Stradella line and the Alta Italia company, and ten went to the Victor Emmanuel Railway for the Calabrian and Sicilian lines, where the first three, named Archimede, Diodoro and Novelli, opened the Palermo to Bagheria section on 28 April 1863, the first railway on Sicily. The engines passed to the Rete Mediterranea in 1885, and the state railways numbered 25 of them in 1905, but they were obsolete and were soon withdrawn and scrapped.