Classic route
Bari–Matera
Bari → Matera · Italy
Bari–Matera in pictures
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- Distance
- 77 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 51 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Ferrovie Appulo Lucane
- Train
- FAL narrow-gauge railcar
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1915
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The only railway to the Sassi: a 950 mm oddity climbing the Murgia plateau from Bari to cave-city Matera — every visitor’s first sight of Basilicata.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2156758 (52 km), relation 16657555 (29 km) — 75 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98% of this line lies within 250 m of real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Ferrovie Appulo Lucane — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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