Classic route
Vercelli–Pavia railway
Vercelli → Pavia · Italy
Vercelli–Pavia railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 65 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 39 min
- Average speed
- 39 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Trenord
- Train
- R 36 · Regional
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1882
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Opened in 1882–83 across the rice paddies between Piedmont and Lombardy, linking Vercelli to Pavia and the Po.
How this line was checked
- The 25 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 15616422 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 15 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of R 10667 (Zug-Nr. 10667)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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