Classic route
Bergamo–Brescia Line
Bergamo → Brescia · Italy
- Distance
- 49 km
- Fastest time
- 59 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Operator
- Trenord
- Train
- Trenord regionale
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1857
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Milan to Venice once ran this way. Forty nine kilometres from Bergamo to Brescia, opened on 12 October 1857 and left a local line in 1878 when the direct cut from Treviglio to Rovato took the traffic.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 547041 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
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