Venice–Udine railway

Venice–Udine railway
Venice–Udine railway
	Udine-stazionefront
Overview
Native name	Ferrovia Venezia-Udine
Owner	RFI
Line number	57, 62
Locale	Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Termini	Venezia Santa Lucia; Udine;
Service
Route number	14
Operator(s)	Trenitalia
History
Opened	1851–1860
Technical
Line length	135 km (84 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	3000 V DC
Operating speed	150 km/h (93 mph)
Route map
	Legend
	257.907
	0.000
	to Venezia Mestre goods yard, connecting
	to former Padua–Malcontenta–Fusina tramway
	Venice Belt railway (old
	route, 1940–1993)
	from Venice Belt
	(new route, opened 2008)
	(tramway to
	Pieve di Soligo)
	Veneto
	Friuli-Venezia Giulia
	from Cervignano and
	from Castions di Strada (never opened)
	Source: Italian railway atlas
	This diagram: view; talk; edit;

The Venice–Udine railway is an Italian railway line connecting Venice, in Veneto, with Udine, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. It follows the same route as state highway 13 (SS 13, "Pontebbana").

The railway infrastructure is managed by the Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, which classifies it as one of its primary lines.^[4]

It has a maximum line speed of 150 km/h (93 mph).

History[edit]

Section	Opened^[5]
Mestre–Marghera	13 December 1842^{[note 1]}
Marghera–end of bridge over Venice lagoon	5 November 1843^{[note 1]}
Bridge over Venice lagoon	13 January 1846^{[note 1]}
Mestre–Treviso	15 August 1851
Treviso–Pordenone	1 May 1855
Pordenone–Casarsa	15 October 1855
Casarsa–Udine	21 July 1860

The section between Mestre and Udine was opened between 1851 and 1860.^[5]

The electrification of the Mestre–Udine section at 3000 volts DC was officially inaugurated in October 1960.^[6]

Standards[edit]

The line is a double-track line entirely electrified at 3000 volts DC. The major cities crossed, in addition to the two termini, are Treviso and Pordenone.

The line is signalled with the Sistema di Comando e Controllo (SCC), a form of centralized traffic control. Traffic is regulated by an operations centre manager at Venezia Mestre.

Rail traffic[edit]

Services are mainly operated by Trenitalia and consist of regional services, long-distance connections from Udine to Milan and Rome and from Venice to Vienna and Munich. In summary, the trains that operate on this line are:

regional
regional express
Intercity
Eurocity
Frecciarossa
Italo AV (since October 2019)

The main stations that have an interchange function with other lines are Venezia Mestre, Treviso Centrale, Conegliano, Sacile, Casarsa and Udine.

References[edit]

Notes[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Part of the Milan–Venice railway.

Footnotes[edit]

^ Circolare compartimentale (in Italian) (VE 4). RFI: 2. 2008.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
^ Circolare compartimentale (in Italian) (VEVE 22). RFI: 2. 2007.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
^ Railway Atlas 2010, pp. 10, 11, 25, 26, 138.
^ "Rete in esercizio" (PDF) (in Italian). RFI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
^ ^a ^b Prospetto cronologico 1926.
^ "Dalla Toscana al Veneto nuove linee a T.E.". Voci della Rotaia (in Italian). III (11): 3. November 1960.

Sources[edit]

RFI, ed. (December 2003). Fascicolo Linea 57 (Venezia Mestre–Sacile) (in Italian). Rete Ferroviaria Italiana.
RFI, ed. (December 2003). Fascicolo Linea 62 (Sacile–Udine) (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 18 August 2018.
Atlante ferroviario d'Italia e Slovenia [Railway atlas of Italy and Slovenia]. Schweers + Wall. 2010. ISBN 978-3-89494-129-1.

[MVR-6] Part of the Milan–Venice railway.

[1] Circolare compartimentale (in Italian) (VE 4). RFI: 2. 2008.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

[2] Circolare compartimentale (in Italian) (VEVE 22). RFI: 2. 2007.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

[FOOTNOTERailway_Atlas201010,_11,_25,_26,_138-3] Railway Atlas 2010, pp. 10, 11, 25, 26, 138.

[4] "Rete in esercizio" (PDF) (in Italian). RFI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2020.

[FOOTNOTEProspetto_cronologico1926-5] Prospetto cronologico 1926.

[7] "Dalla Toscana al Veneto nuove linee a T.E.". Voci della Rotaia (in Italian). III (11): 3. November 1960.

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