Venice–Trieste railway

The Venice–Trieste railway is a railway line in Italy.

Venice–Trieste railway
Gaggio station on the Venice–Trieste railway in 2008
Overview
Status	in use
Owner	RFI
Locale	Italy
Termini	Venice Trieste
Service
Type	Heavy rail
Operator(s)	Trenitalia
History
Opened	1897 (1897)
Technical
Line length	153 km (95 mi)
Number of tracks	2
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	3 kV DC
Route map Legend km elev 266.341 Venezia Santa Lucia 4 m Venezia Marittima Ponte della Libertà Venetian Lagoon 260.191 Venezia Porto Marghera 4 m 257.907 0.000 Venezia Mestre to Adria (ST), Milan, Trento 0.697 Quadrivio Gazzera (to Udine) 3.903 Venezia Carpenedo 6.476 former Carpenedo 4-way junction (Linea dei Bivi—"line of the junctions") A 57 Diramazione Aeroporto Marco Polo 10.715 Gaggio Porta Est (opened 2008) Gaggio closed 2008 15.782 Quarto d'Altino 3 m Sile 23.957 Meolo 27.790 Fossalta di Piave 4 m Piave 32.786 San Donà di Piave-Jesolo 3 m 40.686 Ceggia Livenza 45.955 San Stino di Livenza 4 m 52.830 Lison 3 m from Treviso 59.342 Portogruaro-Caorle 5 m to Casarsa 65.300 Fossalta di Portogruaro 72.340 Tagliamento 00000Veneto Friuli-Venezia Giulia 73.289 Latisana-Lignano-Bibione 6 m Precenicco–Gemona del Friuli railway (never opened) 79.??? Precenicco-Bagni 1909–1915 80.597 Palazzolo dello Stella 4 m 84.644 Muzzana del Turgnano 6 m 90.962 San Giorgio di Nogaro 6 m to Porto Nogaro Corno to Palmanova 96.603 Torviscosa 3 m 0000Italy Austria-Hungary border (1866–1919) Cervignano yard to Palmanova from Udine Àusa 101.338 Cervignano-Aquileia-Grado 6 m 102.000 to Pontile per Grado / Scodovacca yard (closed) Cervignano Porto closed military railways to Viscone and Villa Vicentina 103.000 Scodovacca (closed) 105.590 Villa Vicentina (closed 2006)[1] Cervignano–Villa Vicentina railway (closed) Fiume Isonzo Aquileia-Turriaco military railways 110.150 Pieris-Turriaco (closed 2002) Begliano 112.820 Trieste Airport link to Monfalcone industrial area 114.080 Ronchi dei Legionari Sud 9 m link to Fincantieri shipyard (disused) to Udine 116.280 San Polo junction 117.746 Monfalcone 23 m old connection to Monfalcone Porto (disused)   new connection to Monfalcone Porto A 4 Autostrada Serenissima  / E70 122.039 San Giovanni tunnel 125.200 Duino-Timavo (closed) 85 m 127.730 Sistiana-Visogliano A 4 / RA 13 / E70 130.463 Bivio d'Aurisina 135 m from Ljubljana and Vienna 131.315 13.687 external exchange tunnel 11.021 Santa Croce di Trieste (closed 2002) 8.265 Grignano crossing loops (closed 2002) 7.033 Miramare 2.269 Barcola exchange group Trieste belt railway 1.424 Gretta exchange group Barcola marshaling yard 0.000 Trieste Centrale and marshalling yard 5 m Linea delle Rive (dock railway) km Source: Italian railway atlas[2] This diagram: view talk edit

History

The section between Venice and San Giorgio di Nogaro was opened as a local railway from the private company Società Veneta in several sections between 1885 and 1888. Later it was decided to prolonge this line through the international border to Austria-Hungary; in 1894 the Austrian section between Cervignano and Monfalcone was opened by the Friauler Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, the border section between San Giorgio and Cervignano followed three years later.^[3]

After the First World War all the line came to Italy, and it became a principal railway, managed by the state company Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane.

See also

• List of railway lines in Italy