Ferrovie del Sud Est (FSE) is arailway company inApulia region,Italy. The company operates in thecomuni south ofLecce and in the provinces ofBari,Brindisi andTaranto. The company also operates bus lines. In August 2016 its network was taken over byFerrovie dello stato due to financial problems at the company. The company is now wholly owned by the Italian Transport Ministry.

Ferrovie del Sud Est e Servizi Automobilistici S.r.l. (FSE)

Company type	Public benefit corporation,Limited company
Industry	Transport
Founded	1931
Headquarters	Bari , Italy
Area served	Province of Bari Province of Taranto Province of Lecce
Products	Rail transport Bus transport
Website	www.fseonline.it

The interior of Salento is a relatively flat plateau, which, however, slopes steeply down to the coasts of theAdriatic Sea and theGulf of Taranto. The coast itself was very marshy, malarial and uninhabitable. Except for a few port cities, such asBari,Otranto,Gallipoli andTaranto, all settlements are therefore located inland. Thus, the FSE routes only lead to the sea in the seaports mentioned and otherwise run in the interior of Apulia. The draining of the marshy coast only started in the 1930s. In recent years, large-scale seaside tourism has developed there, for which the railway runs much too far inland.^[1]

FSE operates trains on the following routes:

• Linea 1Bari–Martina Franca–Taranto railway andBari-Casamassima-Putignano railway
• Linea 2Martina Franca–Lecce railway
• Linea 3Novoli-Gagliano del Capo railway
• Linea 4Gallipoli–Casarano railway
• Linea 5Zollino–Gallipoli railway
• Linea 6Maglie–Gagliano del Capo railway
• Linea 7Lecce–Otranto railway

• Bari Centrale railway station
• Transportation in Italy

• Official website