Classic route
Prato–Bologna Direttissima
Prato → Bologna · Italy
- Distance
- 80 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 14 min
- Average speed
- 65 km/h
- Top speed
- 180 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia ↗
- Train
- Regionale
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1934
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The 1934 Direttissima under the Apennines: an 18.5 km base tunnel, then the second longest in the world, and 180 km/h where the old line over the pass managed 75.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7345503 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Trenitalia — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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