Classic route
Biella–Novara railway
Biella → Novara · Italy
Mussolini opened it on 18 May 1939 and no train ran for fourteen months, because the rolling stock was not ready; promised electric in 1925, it never was, and the state took it over in 1961.
- Distance
- 51 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 4 min
- Average speed
- 48 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmBiella San Paolo +1
- 10 kmCossato
- 23 kmRovasenda
- 39 kmCasaleggio
- 44 kmNibbia
- 46 kmAgognate
- 51 kmNovara
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7221000: 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
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 11607
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Questions and answers
How long is the Biella–Novara railway?
The Biella–Novara railway runs 51 km from Biella to Novara.
How long does the Biella–Novara railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 4 min for the 51 km. That is an average of 48 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Biella–Novara railway?
Trenitalia, with R 11607.
How old is the Biella–Novara railway?
The line has been in service since 1940. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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