TrainAtlasThis report covers Trenitalia services in the TrainStats archive, with both endpoints geographically verified inside Italy. Italo, cross-border services, and routes with unresolved station locations are excluded. Below are the Italian routes running furthest behind schedule, ranked by the typical (median) arrival delay. This page refreshes every week from verified arrival data.
The most delayed Italian train routes that week
| # | Route | Typical delay | Late (5+ min) | Trains |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PARMABRESCIA (PARMA to BRESCIA) | 22min | 78% | 68 |
| 2 | BARI CENTRALEMILANO CENTRALE (BARI CENTRALE to MILANO CENTRALE) | 14min | 81% | 27 |
| 3 | MILANO CENTRALEVENTIMIGLIA (MILANO CENTRALE to VENTIMIGLIA) | 11min | 71% | 45 |
| 4 | BRENNEROBOLOGNA CENTRALE (BRENNERO to BOLOGNA CENTRALE) | 10min | 58% | 26 |
Bars are scaled to the worst route this week. "Typical delay" is the median across every tracked run; "late" is the share arriving 5 or more minutes behind. Only routes running 10 or more minutes late on a typical trip, with at least 25 tracked trains, are listed. Scope: Trenitalia services in the TrainStats archive, with both endpoints geographically verified inside Italy. Italo, cross-border services, and routes with unresolved station locations are excluded.
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Why are Italian trains so delayed?
Three things compound:
- A measured route ranking. This page describes the routes in the verified weekly data rather than claiming to be an official national punctuality statistic.
- Scope is deliberate. Only Trenitalia services with both endpoints proven inside Italy are included, so cross-border routes and operators outside the archive do not distort the country ranking.
- Median reveals persistent delay. Each route is ranked by its median terminal-arrival delay across all verified runs that week, which reduces the effect of one exceptional service.
How we measure this
- Arrival delay, not departure.
- We measure how late a train actually arrives - departure delay understates how late trains really run.
- Median, not average.
- Each route shows the median across every tracked run that week, so one cancelled or extreme train cannot distort the ranking.
- A 25-train floor.
- A route needs at least 25 tracked runs that week to appear, so a single bad day cannot put an obscure route on the board.
- Scope.
- Trenitalia services in the TrainStats archive, with both endpoints geographically verified inside Italy. Italo, cross-border services, and routes with unresolved station locations are excluded.
TrainAtlas is independent and not affiliated with Trenitalia or any rail operator. These are our own measurements from public data, not official punctuality statistics - operators publish on-time percentages using their own, more generous thresholds, so our median-minutes figure will usually read worse. Data source: TrainStats archive of Trenitalia public train data. Spot an error? Tell us and we will correct it and note the change in the archive.