page_title: Lampo (dog)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Lampo (dog) / History
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Lampo
context_page_description: Lampo was a mixed-breed dog that became famous for his rail journeys across Italy.
context_section_description: In August 1953, Lampo, then a stray dog, got off a cargo train at the Campiglia Marittima railway station in Italy and was adopted by the stationmaster Elvio Barlettani, despite the strict rail regulations. Soon the dog had learned the train schedules, distinguishing the slow trains from the fast ones and how to get somewhere every day and return at sunset. Almost every morning he was traveling by train from Campiglia Marittima to Piombino to accompany Mirna, the stationmaster's daughter in her way to school and then was returning to the Campiglia.
  After a few years, the management of the Florence railway forced Barlettani to remove the dog. Lampo was put on a cargo train to Naples, but he managed to return after a few days. Later Lampo was given to a friend of the stationmaster in Barletta, however after about five months, the dog managed to return to Campiglia Marittima, where he officially had become the mascot of the railway station. His story intrigued journalists around the world, who dedicated television services, articles and covers to his story.
  On the evening of July 22, 1961 in Campiglia Marittima, a maneuvering cargo train hit the dog, who was then buried in the flowerbed at the foot of an acacia tree at the railway station.
caption: Lampo on the locomotive.
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