The Bologna metropolitan railway service (
Italian
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: ''servizio ferroviario metropolitano di Bologna'',
acronym
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: ''SFMBO'') is a
commuter rail
Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns. Generally commuter rail systems are con ...
way service around the Italian city of
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...
. It is currently under construction.
History
Launched in 1995 with two suburban lines attested in the Bologna Centrale Railway Station, with the agreement of the program of 2007 is expected activation of more straight lines with a regular timetable for 2012, but due to delays in the full activation Bologna Central station AV completion buoyancy base is postponed to 2015. in June 2013 have been completed on 90% of the infrastructure works and are active 70% of the services provided positioned in the base.
Lines
The following 8 lines are foreseen:
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Bologna Centrale
Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the northern ...
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Porretta Terme
Porretta Terme ( Bolognese: ''Puratta'') is a town of the Reno Valley Tuscan-Emilian Apennines, a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Alto Reno Terme, Emilia-Romagna. Porretta Terme is located about south-west of Bologna. Known since Roman times fo ...
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Bologna Centrale
Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the northern ...
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San Benedetto Sambro-Castiglione Pepoli
San Benedetto Val di Sambro-Castiglione dei Pepoli ( it, Stazione di San Benedetto Val di Sambro-Castiglione dei Pepoli) is a railway station in San Benedetto Val di Sambro, Italy. The station opened in 1934 and is located on the Bologna–Florenc ...
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Bologna Centrale
Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the northern ...
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Vignola
Vignola (Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese: ; Bolognese dialect, Bolognese: ) is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Modena (Emilia-Romagna), Italy.
Its economy is based on agriculture, especially fruit farming, but there are also mechani ...
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Bologna Centrale
Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the northern ...
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Portomaggiore
Portomaggiore ( Ferrarese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
History
In the Battle of Portomaggiore of 1395, mercenary troops of the Ferrara Regency Council, assisted by allies from Florence, Bologna, V ...
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Bologna Centrale
Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the northern ...
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Poggio Rusco
Poggio Rusco ( Lower Mantovano: ) is a small town and ''comune'' in the Province of Mantua, whose inhabitants number 6,474 as of August 31, 2020. It is from the provincial capital.
The town lies in the southeast of the Oltrepò Mantovano area, f ...
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Bologna Centrale
Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the northern ...
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Ferrara
Ferrara (, ; egl, Fràra ) is a city and ''comune'' in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital of the Province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream ...
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Bologna Centrale
Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the northern ...
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Imola
Imola (; rgn, Jômla or ) is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, located on the river Santerno, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. The city is traditionally considered the western entrance to the historical re ...
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Bologna Centrale
Bologna Centrale is a railway station in Bologna, Italy. The station is situated at the northern edge of the city centre. It is located at the southern end of the Milan-Bologna high-speed line, which opened on 13 December 2008, and the northern ...
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Modena
Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...
See also
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List of suburban and commuter rail systems
This is an alphabetical listing of cities and countries that have commuter or suburban railways that are currently operational and in service. Commuter and suburban rail systems are train services that connect city centres with outer suburbs or ...
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List of Bologna metro stations The following was a list of stations on the Metropolitana di Bologna, an old project of rapid transit, underground in Bologna. The project of the underground had stalled after a dispute between Emilia Romagna, Regione Emilia-Romagna, the local gover ...
References
External links
Official page
{{Urban public transport in Italy
Metropolitan Railway Service
Passenger rail transport in Italy
Proposed rail infrastructure in Italy