Heritage route
Porrettana Express
Pistoia → Porretta Terme · Italy
Porrettana Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 40 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 24 km/h
- Top speed
- 60 km/h
- Operator
- Fondazione FS
- Train
- E.626 + Centoporte coaches
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1864
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The 1864 Porrettana was Italy’s first railway across the Apennines: E.626-hauled Centoporte coaches now relive its 26 ‰ climb from Pistoia to the spa town of Porretta.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6628099 — 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 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Fondazione FS — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in IT) ↗
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