Classic route
Verona–Bologna railway
Verona → Bologna · Italy
- Distance
- 115 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 52 min
- Average speed
- 133 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia ↗
- Train
- Frecciarossa
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 1924
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Thirty seven years to cross the Po plain: begun at Bologna in 1887, over the river at Ostiglia in 1911 and finished into Verona on 1 February 1924. Fifty two minutes now.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2374167 — 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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