Classic route
Intercity Riviera
Milan → Ventimiglia · Italy
Intercity Riviera in pictures
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- Distance
- 290 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 76 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia
- Train
- Loco-hauled Intercity
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1872
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Down the Po plain to Genoa, then the full Italian Riviera westward: tunnel after tunnel between the mountains and the sea to San Remo and the French border at Ventimiglia.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 19258411 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Trenitalia — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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