The railway circulation on the Messina-Catania route, interrupted for a long time in the afternoon due to a technical inconvenience that occurred near Taormina, returned to flow in the evening, shortly after 8 pm. The breakdown caused heavy delays and inconvenience to hundreds of passengers, some of which were stuck on board the trains for over three hours.
According to what was communicated by Trenitalia, the circulation was first strongly slowed down and subsequently suspended completely. The company specified that the interruption involved both the intercity trains and the regional ones, With delays up to 140 minutescancellations and path limitations.
Among the convoys involved, theIntercity 721 Started from Messina Centrale at 15:50 and headed to Syracuse, who finished his race in the station of Letojanni due to the technical problem. Travelers were subsequently diverted to the Fast Regional Train 5397, which started from Messina at 5:15 pm, which also stopped in Letojanni in extraordinaryly to allow passengers to continue towards Syracuse. The difficulties were particularly felt by commuters and tourists, many of whom remained without clear information for a long time. The cause of the failure has not yet been officially made known, but it would be a technical problem to the circulation systems in the Taormina area. RFI technicians intervened on the spot to restore the functionality of the line.