Heritage route
Trenino Verde
Macomer → Bosa Marina · Italy
Trenino Verde in pictures
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- Distance
- 46 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h
- Average speed
- 23 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- ARST
- Train
- ADe railcar · 950 mm
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1888
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Trenino Verde’s second living branch: 46 km of 950 mm track twisting off Macomer’s basalt plateau down to the palm-lined seafront at Bosa Marina.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1808855 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ARST — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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