When the national transport system was tested a few years later by the Second World War, the Fascist railways showed little advance on the Liberal ones and the transport of goods, especially south of Rome, remained a serendipitous affair.

— R.J.B. Bosworth Mussolini’s Italy: Life Under the Fascist Dictatorship, 1915-1945 (2005)

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