Classic route
Rome–Sulmona–Pescara railway
Rome → Pescara · Italy
- Distance
- 237 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 68 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia ↗
- Train
- RE 4266 · Regionale
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1888
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Rome to the Adriatic the hard way, over the Apennines by Tivoli, the drained Fucino basin at Avezzano and Sulmona, where the Transiberiana d’Italia branches into the Abruzzo highlands.
How this line was checked
- The 152 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 13401418 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 43 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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