Edolo line

[yorkie]

Does anyone know if any interesting trains operate on this line, or are they all modern stock?

If there are some older trains on this route, does anyone know which ones these are, or is there any way to tell?

Also, for travel from Verona, is it possible/better to buy a through ticket, or do you need to rebook at Brescia?

Thanks in advance

 

[30907]

This might help if your device will translate it....
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrovia_Brescia-Iseo-Edolo

I did the trip a few years back, when there was still a loco hauled school train (ex CZ/SK "Goggles") and some ALn668 railcars, but the linked site doesn't mention the former and says the latter are no longer diagrammed from this month

I have a memory that there is some sort of tourist train in high season.

I learnt the hard way that there is a separate station for the Edolo line at Brescia! Platform 2N is NOT the north end of platform 2...

The line is part of the Trenord setup for ticketing, and I don't think that covers regional trains to Verona. We came from Rome and memory says we couldn't book though on a Freccia. There were machines on the platform IIRC.

 

[eastwestdivide]

Trenord's page at https://www.trenord.it/it/chi-siamo/la-flotta/convogli-automotori-e-automotrici.aspx
says the route is served by the older railcars ALn668 and the newer ATR 115 (Stadler GTW).

In a huge thread about the line at http://www.ferrovie.it/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=14290&start=2550
the posts around 2 Jan 19 suggest that the 668s are in a minority, and that the start of 2019 was the end of operating the 668s with B68 trailers.
Youtube farewell video to the trailer cars at

Also, Wikipedia at https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesa_ATRIBO says there are two Polish Pesa Atribo (ATR 220) units bought by Trenord for the route, but a 15 April 2019 post on that Italian forum thread linked above suggests they might be trying to "resuscitate" the Pesas for the Edolo line.
Another post says hire a private detective to find out which services are operated by the GTWs.

Not entirely helpful, but there you go.

 

[cactustwirly]

Does anyone know if any interesting trains operate on this line, or are they all modern stock?

If there are some older trains on this route, does anyone know which ones these are, or is there any way to tell?

Also, for travel from Verona, is it possible/better to buy a through ticket, or do you need to rebook at Brescia?

Thanks in advance

The fantastic e656.net website will tell you the booked traction, when you enter the train number

 

[axlecounter]

The fantastic e656.net website will tell you the booked traction, when you enter the train number

I’m not sure that site can do that for this line. On a quick check it doesn’t.

I use it only from time to time, but I always had a good mix of GTWs and Aln668. Worth a visit.

On a side note, sunday there’s a steam train, if anybody is near.. (
http://www.fondazionefs.it/content/...treno-storico-brescia-pisogne.2019.04.28.html )