Italy - Lines with Obscure or Sparse passenger services

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This list is based on the timetable in force until 13 December 2008, unless otherwise stated. Several companies publish railway timetables in Italy, but table numbers quoted here are from In Treno, the official Trenitalia book. Standard abbreviations are explained in General Information.

Introduction

Westbound and northbound trains normally have even train numbers. Eastbound and southbound trains normally have odd numbers. Trains may, therefore, have several numbers during the course of a journey. For example, the 07:01 Bergamo to Ventimiglia, which runs west to Milano, south to Genova and then west again, is successively IR1786, IR1787 and IR1788. In the tables below the train number used is that applicable at the last stop before the route concerned. Where two train numbers are shown, that is because they vary with the day of operation. Trains running on only a few days during the Christmas and New Year holiday period are not included in the lists; none use lines without any other passenger service.

Passengers without cars may make reservations on Auto al Seguito car-carrying trains marked Aa within 15 days prior to departure, if any places remain available.

Lines are listed in geographic order, from north to south, grouped by region. However, the Firenze - Roma direttissima (which passes through the regions of Toscana, Umbria and Lazio) is shown as a separate group. Special Notes and details of Other Sparse Services and Deletions since previous edition can be found at the end of this page.

List of Regions:-

The following regions currently have no Obscure Services: Abruzzo, Basilicata, Marche, Molise, Puglia and Valle d'Aosta.

Special Notes

The Trenitalia timetables suggest that on certain lines fast trains and stopping trains run via different routes, but in fact there is a quadruple line with station platforms on only one pair of tracks. Such lines include Prato Centrale to Firenze Rifredi and Padova to Venezia Mestre. Some trains between Pescara and Foggia are shown as not passing through the new station, Pescara Tribunale. This is a compilation error.

Deletions since previous edition

IT07/42 Bivio d’Aurisina – Sezana: Now included in other sparse services
IT07/43 Miramare (Bivio Galleria) – Villa Opicina - Trieste Campo Marzio: Service has not operated since 2006.
IT07/72 Bologna avoiding line: Lavino - Bologna S Ruffillo (Bivio Crociali): The connection from the avoiding line to Firenze is no longer used by passenger trains
IT07/86 Firenze S Maria Novella (Bivio Pellegrino) - Firenze S Marco Vecchio: Replaced by an entry for the curve from Firenze Campo di Marte, which is less used.
IT07/151 Brindisi - Brindisi Marittima: The summer overnight trains that used this line were cut back to Bari in 2007. The branch may have closed.
IT07/162 Palermo avoiding line: Palermo Brancaccio - Vespri (Bivio Oreto): The one train to use this curve no longer runs.

Other sparse services

The following lines not included above have few trains (relative to service levels generally in Italy) - five trains or fewer each way on at least three days a week, or do not run each weekday.

A1, B2, 10 Bardonecchia - Modane (France)
F1, 15 Tarvisio Boscoverde - Arnoldstein (Austria)
G1, 13 Bivio d’Aurisina – Villa Opicina - Sezana (Slovenia)
114 Ceva – Ormea
117 Chivasso – Asti
134 Oleggio - Laveno-Mombello
143 Alessandia – Ovada
186 Palazzolo sull’Oglio - Paratico Sarnico (spring and autumn Sundays only)
233 Sacile - Gemona del Friuli (service over the full length of this line on Sundays and summer Saturdays only)
259 Cecina - Volterra-Saline-Pomarance
270 Lavezzola - Granarolo Faentino
286 Pergola – Fabriano
312 Sulmona - Castel di Sangro – Carpinone
315 Benevento – Campobasso
335 Avellino - Rocchetta S Antonia-Lacedonia
337 Spinazzola - Rocchetta S Antonio-Lacedonia
362 Olbia - Golfo Aranci
392 Canicatti – Gela
480 Sassari – Nulvi (Ferrovie della Sardegna) (Trains currently replaced by buses)
485 Mandas - Isili (Ferrovie della Sardegna)
- Sassi – Superga (Gruppo Torinese Trasporti) (No trains on Tuesdays)
- Gravina in Puglia - Genzano (Ferrovie Appulo Lucane)
- Pedace - Camigliatello Silano (Ferrovie della Calabria)
- Gioia Tauro - Palmi Centrale (Ferrovie della Calabria)

The train service is suspended on the some local lines during the summer holiday period between late June and early September. There were no trains over the following lines for varying periods during summer 2008.

108 Mondovi – Cuneo
114 Ceva – Ormea
117 Chivasso – Asti
118 Mortara – Asti
121 Acqui Terme – Genova Sampierdarena
124 Alessandria - Castagnole delle Lanze
134 Oleggio – Laveno-Mombello
143 Alessandria – Ovada
154 Pavia – Castelpusterlengo
157 Piacenza – Castelvetro
170 Albate-Camerlata – Molteno
172 Seregno – Carnate-Usmate
259 Cecina - Volterra-Saline-Pomarance
270 Lavezzola – Granarolo Faentino
286 Fabriano – Pergola
300 Sulmona – Terni
312 Sulmona – Carpinone
313 Campobasso – Termoli
315 Campobasso – Benevento
325 Sarno – Codola
335 Avellino - Rocchetta S Antonio-Lacedonia
337 Spinazzola - Rocchetta S Antonio-Lacedonia
339 Spinazzola – Barletta
346 Taranto – Brindisi (except for overnight trains E951 and E956)

Services over the following lines are not shown in In Treno, but timetables can be found at the websites shown. Urban metro systems are not included in this list.

See also

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