Piacenza–Cremona railway

The Piacenza–Cremona railway was a railway line in Italy.

Piacenza–Cremona railway
Overview
Status	closed
Owner	RFI
Locale	Italy
Termini	Piacenza Cremona
Service
Type	Heavy rail
History
Opened	1933
Closed	2013
Technical
Line length	31 km (19 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	3 kV DC
Route map km elev from Alessandria from Milan 0.000 Piacenza to Bologna 4.595 2° Bivio Piacenza Est to the HSR A1 HSR Milan–Bologna 6.980 Borghetto San Lazzaro (1940[1]–1985[2]) 13.471 Caorso A21 20.878 Monticelli d'Ongina (since 1936) from Fidenza 24.896 6.087 Castelvetro Po from Pavia 0.000 Cremona to Brescia and to Treviglio to Mantua km Source: Italian railway atlas[3]

On 12 December 2013 passenger service on the line was terminated, and was substituted by 2 buses for the connection between Piacenza and Cremona.

See also

• List of railway lines in Italy

References

Footnotes

1. Ordine di Servizio n. 156 - 1940
2. Notizie flash. In: ″I Treni Oggi″ Nr. 50 (May 1985), p. 9.
3. Railway Atlas 2017, pp. 34, 35, 141.

Sources

• RFI, ed. (December 2003). Fascicolo Linea 30 (Piacenza–Cremona) (in Italian). Rete Ferroviaria Italiana.
• Atlante ferroviario d'Italia e Slovenia [Railway atlas of Italy and Slovenia]. Schweers + Wall. 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1.