Number 740-452 has been rotting in the sea air outside Siracusa station for many years. She was one of 470 Class 740 locomotives built between 1911 and 1923. I believe that there are around 400 preserved steam locomotives in Italy and rather surprisingly 49 of them are of this class 740. They were clearly long lived and only withdrawn on mass in the 1970's with even a small number kept in reserve until 1990's. According to Wikipedia there are three examples passed for mainline running.

I came about finding this locomotive through an aerial view on Google Maps. Although it is on display in a car park adjacent to the railway station there is no formal access to view it (I just blagged my way into the compound). It seems as though it has been forgotten about. There are other photos of the locomotive on Flickr dating from 2013 and it looks as though it hasn't had any attention since then.

Incidentally the adjacent station was featured in the last James Bond film 'No Time to Die'.

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