Scenic route
Cadenazzo–Luino railway
Cadenazzo → Luino · Switzerland · Italy
- Distance
- 31 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 36 min
- Average speed
- 52 km/h
- Top speed
- 125 km/h
- Operator
- SBB
- Train
- RE · Regional-Express
- Countries
- Switzerland, Italy
- In service since
- 1882
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Hugs the north-eastern shore of Lake Maggiore, crossing from Ticino into Italy on the way to Luino.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 151860 — 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 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of RE 25395 (Zug-Nr. 25395)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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