Pavia–Alessandria railway

The Pavia–Alessandria railway is a railway line in Italy.

Pavia–Alessandria railway
Overview
Status	in use
Owner	RFI
Line number	13
Locale	Lombardy and Piedmont, Italy
Termini	Pavia Alessandria
Service
Type	Heavy rail
Operator(s)	Trenord
History
Opened	1862
Technical
Line length	63 km (39 mi)
Number of tracks	1 (Pavia–Torreberetti) 2 (Torreberetti–Alessandria)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ^1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	3 kV DC (Torreberetti–Alessandria)
Operating speed	135 km/h (84 mph)
Route map km elev from Milan from Mantua 43.059 Pavia 76 m Ticino to Genoa and to Stradella from Cava Manara (until 1916)[1] 35.560 Cava-Carbonara 82 m to Vercelli 33.424 Sairano 31.992 Sairano-Zinasco 84 m 29.291 Zinasco Nuovo 82 m 26.067 Pieve Albignola 85 m 21.614 Sannazzaro 86 m 18.073 Ferrera Lomellina 89 m 12.715 Lomello 91 m 7.583 Mede 94 m Castellaro until 2003 [2] 91 m from Novara 0.000 18.618 Torreberetti 94 m Po from Chivasso 12.392 Valenza 112 m Valenza (2330 m) 6.572 Valmadonna 117 m 0.000 88.522 from Turin Tanaro 90.075 Alessandria 96 m to Cavallermaggiore and to Savona / to Ovada to Genoa and to Piacenza km Source: Italian railway atlas[3]

History

The line was opened in 1862. Between Torreberetti and Alessandria it uses the Novara–Alessandria railway, opened in 1854.[4]

See also

• List of railway lines in Italy

References

Footnotes

1. Ferrovie dello Stato, Ordine di Servizio n. 173, 1916
2. Impianti FS. In: ″I Treni″ Nr. 257 (March 2004), p. 6.
3. Railway Atlas 2017, pp. 32, 33, 121.
4. Prospetto cronologico 1926.

Sources

• RFI, ed. (December 2003). Fascicolo Linea 13 (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 23 August 2018.
• Atlante ferroviario d'Italia e Slovenia [Railway atlas of Italy and Slovenia]. Schweers + Wall. 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1.

External links

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