The Venice–Udine railway is an Italian railway line connecting

Venice Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...

, in

Veneto Veneto, officially the Region of Veneto, is one of the 20 regions of Italy, located in the Northeast Italy, north-east of the country. It is the fourth most populous region in Italy, with a population of 4,851,851 as of 2025. Venice is t ...

, with

Udine Udine ( ; ; ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in northeastern Italy, in the middle of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic Sea and the Carnic Alps. It is the capital of the Province of Udine, Regional decentralization entity ...

, in

Friuli-Venezia Giulia Friuli-Venezia Giulia () is one of the 20 regions of Italy and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The regional capital is Trieste on the Gulf of Trieste, a bay of the Adriatic Sea. Friuli-Venezia Giulia has an area of and a ...

. It follows the same route as state highway 13 (SS 13, "Pontebbana"). The railway infrastructure is managed by the

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) is the Italian railway infrastructure manager, subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS), a state-owned holding company. RFI is the owner of Italy's railway network, it provides signalling, maintenance an ...

, which classifies it as one of its primary lines. It has a maximum line speed of .

History

The section between

Mestre Mestre () is a borough of the comune of Venice on the mainland opposite the historical island city in the region of Veneto, Italy. Administratively, Mestre forms (together with the nearby Carpenedo) the Municipalità di Mestre-Carpenedo, one ...

and

was opened between 1851 and 1860. The electrification of the Mestre–Udine section at 3000

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s DC was officially inaugurated in October 1960.

Standards

The line is a double-track line entirely electrified at 3000

s DC. The major cities crossed, in addition to the two termini, are

Treviso Treviso ( ; ; ) is a city and (municipality) in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 87.322 inhabitants (as of December 2024). Some 3,000 live within the Venetian wall ...

and

Pordenone Pordenone (; Venetian language, Venetian and ) is a city and (municipality) in the Italy, Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the capital of the Province of Pordenone, Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone. The name comes from Lati ...

. 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 .

Rail traffic

Services are mainly operated by

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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 , , , , and .

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* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Venice-Udine railway Railway lines in Veneto Railway lines in Friuli-Venezia Giulia 1851 establishments in Italy Railway lines opened in 1851