Classic route
Turin–Genoa railway
Turin → Genoa · Italy
- Distance
- 165 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 41 min
- Average speed
- 98 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia ↗
- Train
- Regionale Veloce
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1853
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Five years of tunnelling under the Apennines opened this line in December 1853, and the 3.3 km Giovi tunnel at its summit was then the longest in the world.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7699365 — 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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