Treviglio–Cremona railway

The Treviglio–Cremona railway is a railway line in Lombardy, Italy.

Treviglio–Cremona railway
Overview
Native name	Ferrovia Cremona-Treviglio
Status	in use
Owner	RFI
Locale	Lombardy, Italy
Termini	Treviglio railway station Cremona railway station
Stations	11
Service
Type	heavy rail
Services	R6
Operator(s)	Trenord
History
Opened	1863
Technical
Line length	65 km (40 mi)
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	3 kV DC overhead line
Route map km elev from Bergamo from Milan 64.576 Treviglio to Venice 59.542 Caravaggio 53.773 Capralba 49.845 Casaletto 42.891 Crema Serio 39.000 Madignano since 1996 [1] 33.505 Castelleone 25.986 Soresina junction FS-SNFT former Cremona–Iseo railway 17.739 Casalbuttano from Brescia 10.831 Olmeneta 5.420 P.M. from Mantua 0.000 Cremona to Pavia to Fidenza km Source: Italian railway atlas[2]

History

The line was planned in the last years of the Austrian domination of Lombardy, and opened in 1863 after the Second Italian War of Independence.[3]

It was electrified in 1977.[4]

See also

• List of railway lines in Italy

References

Footnotes

1. Fermata con vapore. In: ″I Treni″ Nr. 176 (November 1996), p. 8.
2. Railway Atlas 2017, pp. 21, 22, 34.
3. Prospetto cronologico 1926.
4. Notizie flash. In: "Italmodel Ferrovie" Nr. 203 (April 1977), p. 304.

Sources

• RFI, ed. (December 2003). Fascicolo Linea 30 (in Italian). Rete Ferroviaria Italiana.
• Tuzza, Alessandro, ed. (1927). "Prospetto cronologico dei tratti di ferrovia aperti all'esercizio dal 1839 al 31 dicembre 1926" (in Italian). Ufficio Centrale di Statistica delle Ferrovie dello Stato/Trenidicarta.it. Retrieved 21 August 2018.
• Atlante ferroviario d'Italia e Slovenia [Railway atlas of Italy and Slovenia]. Schweers + Wall. 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1.