Classic route
Monza–Molteno railway
Molteno → Monza · Italy
- Distance
- 29 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 56 min
- Average speed
- 31 km/h
- Top speed
- 80 km/h
- Operator
- Trenord
- Train
- S 7
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1911
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Brianza branch of 1911 climbing gently from Monza into the Lecco hills, twelve stops in twenty-nine kilometres.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2589419 — 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 0.1 km from the shape of R 24728 (Zug-Nr. 24728)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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