Trento–Venice railway

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Trento–Venice railway
Overview
LocaleItaly
TerminiTrento
Mestre
Service
Operator(s)Rete Ferroviaria Italiana,
Trenitalia
History
Opened1910 (1910)
Technical
Line length157 km (98 mi)
Number of trackssingle track,
double in Mestre
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification3000 V
Operating speed120–140 km/h (75–87 mph)
Route map

Legend
km
elev
from Innsbruck
TT line from Mezzana
146.994
 Trento (FS) /
193 m
to Verona
143.534
(opened 2006)
142.815
(opened 2007)
140.598
280 m
138.147
(opened 1995[1])
Roncogno
421 m
129.543
468 m
126.810
454 m
122.669
452 m
120.233
467 m
Brenta
116.845
455 m
 Barco
435 m
 Novaledo
(closed 1961[2])
Brenta
108.025
416 m
Brenta
103.301
390 m
102.450
Castelnuovo
351 m
98.409
349 m
95.466
306 m
88.805
252 m
87.873
high point of line
83.819
230 m
Trentino-Alto Adige
Veneto
border
80.002
218 m
once planned link to Feltre
Cismon
73.747
194 m
69.509
180 m
64.489
156 m
60.992
143 m
57.493
138 m
56.059
Pove del Grappa-Campese
(closed 1951[3])
136 m
military railway from Crespano
51.283
(start of electrification)
149 m
45.401
94 m
37.376
53 m
32.135
 Castelfranco Veneto
40 m
27.286
32 m
23.312
26 m
18.879
(opened 2005[4])
14.837
16 m
11.316
13 m
(7.499)
10.492
(start of double track)
8 m
(5.520)
 Orgnano double junction
7.016 (4.477)
Left arrowLeft arrowSpinea junction/PC
Left arrowValsugana level crossing
()
Left arrowdeviation opened 2008
(4.485)
 Venezia Asseggiano
(closed 2008)
6.809
(opened 2008)
-.--- (1.417)
 Maerne ramp
(to Milan)
3.518
Catene junction
A57
(0.967)
to Udine and to Trieste
0.000
257.907
 Venezia Mestre
4 m
 Venezia Marghera goods yard
260.191
 Venezia Porto Marghera
4 m
 Ponte della Libertà
Venetian Lagoon
 Venezia Marittima
266.341
 Venezia Santa Lucia
4 m
km
Source: Italian railway atlas[5]
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The Trento–Venice railway is an Italian state-owned railway line connecting Trento, in Trentino-Alto Adige, to Mestre, a suburb of Venice, in the Veneto region. At Mestre, it connects to the main line from Verona.

The line is managed by RFI, a company of the Ferrovie dello Stato group. Passenger traffic is run by Trenitalia, which also runs regional trains ordered by the Veneto region; in the province of Trento, fulfills this role (line 401).

History[]

Viaduct of the railway near .

Railway lines had been built from Trento, in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, in 1859 southwards to Verona, and in 1867 northwards to Bolzano and the Brenner pass; today these form the Brenner Railway, the main railway connection between Italy and Austria. On the Italian side a line was built from Bassano del Grappa to Padua in 1877, and an extension to the Italian-Austrian border at was studied. However, when the Veneto joined the Kingdom of Italy, a new border was established at , and hence the Austrians constructed a railway from Trento to Tezze in 1896, where it joined the Italian Valsugana railway line.[6]

On the Italian side, the line from Mestre via Primolano to the border was built between 1906 and 1910, with the first part, to Bassano del Grappa, opening in 1908, and a second to the following year. Primolano now became an international border station,[7] though only for a few years, as Trentino-Alto Adige became part of Italy after the First World War.

The line was electrified in the 1980s from Castelfranco Veneto to Venezia Mestre, and in 2003 from Castelfranco Veneto to Bassano del Grappa. Other improvements in the 2000s included a so-called 'light surface metro' - a half-hourly local train service which also services a series of new suburban stations in the Trento region. For this service, new trains of the type were bought by Trentino Trasporti in order to replace the old FS Class ALn 668. A similar suburban service might be installed between Mestre and Castelfranco Veneto, but track improvements necessary for such a service are rendered difficult by the Padua-Venice section of the .

Characteristics[]

The 157-kilometre long (98 mi) railway line is single track all the way from Trento to , near Mestre, where it becomes double track for the last 10 km. All of it is standard gauge, and the line is electrified at 3000 V from Mestre to Bassano del Grappa, where the maximum speed is 120–140 km/h (75–87 mph). Beyond Bassano, maximum speeds are much lower, with an average grade of 10 per thousand, increasing to 22 per thousand beyond Primolano. Trains take about 3.5 hours to cover the complete distance, for an average speed of below 50 km/h.

Services[]

Regional railway services are offered by Trenitalia and Trentino Trasporti from Trento to Bassano del Grappa (hourly), and from Bassano del Grappa to Venice Santa Lucia (hourly, since 2013). Additionally, hourly 'light surface metro' (metropolitana leggera di superficie) services are offered in peak hours between Borgo Valsugana East and Trento and between Castelfranco Veneto East and Venice.

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ "Nuova fermata". I Treni (in Italian). Salò: Editrice Trasporti su Rotaie. XVI (165): 6. November 1995. ISSN 0392-4602.
  2. ^ "unknown". Ordine di Servizio (in Italian) (51). 1961. Cite uses generic title (help)
  3. ^ "unknown". Ordine di Servizio (in Italian) (38). 1951. Cite uses generic title (help)
  4. ^ "Impianti FS". I Treni (in Italian). XXV (274): 7. October 2005. ISSN 0392-4602.
  5. ^ Railway Atlas 2017, pp. 9, 24, 25, 137, 138.
  6. ^ Facchinelli, Laura (1992). "La ferrovia della Valsugana". Linea Treno (5).
  7. ^ Prospetto cronologico 1926.

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