Classic route
Brig–Domodossola railway
Domodossola → Brig · Italy · Switzerland
- Distance
- 41 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 32 min
- Average speed
- 77 km/h
- Operator
- SBB
- Train
- EC · EuroCity
- Countries
- Italy, Switzerland
- In service since
- 1906
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Swiss–Italian side of the Simplon: 41 km from Brig to Domodossola, almost half of it inside the 19.8 km Simplon Tunnel of 1906.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11612242 — 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 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RE 1 (Zug-Nr. 4262)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in IT) ↗
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