Under Mussolini the trains did not really run on time.

1922

Most of the improvement to Italy's railways was done before he came to power in 1922; the famous punctuality was largely propaganda.

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The event

• March on Rome: Mussolini takes power1922 · Rome. In October 1922 Blackshirt squads marched on Rome, and King Victor Emmanuel III asked Benito Mussolini to form a government. Within a few years he turned Italy into a one-party dictatorship.

20th century

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