Classic route
Santhià–Biella railway
Biella → Santhià · Italy
Inaugurated on 8 September 1856 with the public works minister aboard the special from Turin: 27 km down from the Biellese wool towns to the Turin–Milan main line at Santhià.
Stations
- 0 kmBiella San Paolo +1
- 16 kmSalussola
- 27 kmSanthià
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7221014: 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
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 11704
Questions and answers
How long is the Santhià–Biella railway?
The Santhià–Biella railway runs 27 km from Biella to Santhià.
How long does the Santhià–Biella railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 26 min for the 27 km. That is an average of 62 km/h end to end.
Who runs the Santhià–Biella railway?
Trenitalia, with R 11704.
How old is the Santhià–Biella railway?
The line has been in service since 1856. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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