Classic route
Fidenza–Fornovo railway
Fornovo → Fidenza · Italy
- Distance
- 25 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 30 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia
- Train
- Regionale
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1907
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 1907 cut-off across the Emilian plain that lets Parma-bound freight and regional trains reach the Pontremolese line at Fornovo.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6779755 — 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 2 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 2294 (Zug-Nr. 2294)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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