The BresciaâÂÂIseoâÂÂEdolo railway () is a long regional railway line connecting the towns of Brescia, Iseo, and Edolo, in Lombardy, northern Italy. The railway links the Valcamonica valley and the Lake Iseo with the city of Brescia and the rest of the Italian railway network.
Established in sections between 1885 and 1909, the railway line is standard gauge, single track and un-electrified. The line is currently owned by the region of Lombardy and managed by the rail infrastructure manager Ferrovienord. Train services on the line are operated by the regional railway company Trenord.
The long railway line between and was opened on 21 June 1885.
A concession for the construction of a railway line through the Valcamonica was granted by the state to the province of Brescia in 1900, which then passed the concession on to the (SNFT) in 1904. The long section from Iseo to opened on 8 July 1907, the long section from Pisogne to on 29 December 1907, and the last long section from Breno to on 4 July 1909.
In October 1907, thanks to an agreement with the Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), the SNFT also obtained the operation of the BresciaâÂÂIseo line which made a direct connection from Brescia to the Valcamonica possible.
A railway line between Iseo and Rovato on the MilanâÂÂVenice railway opened on 3 September 1911 as the first section of the now partly defunct . Served by the line R9 of Trenord, the service between Iseo and Rovato Borgo was suspended in 2018.
The railway line initially runs northwest from to which is the junction with the short branch line to Rovato. The line then continues north to , from where it continues north along the eastern shore of the Lake Iseo until . From Pisogne it continues north along the River Oglio through the Valcamonica valley of the Central Alps until it reaches at the foot of the Aprica Pass and the Tonale Pass.
The is currently owned by the region of Lombardy and managed by the rail infrastructure manager Ferrovienord, a subsidiary of Ferrovie Nord Milano. Train services on the line are operated by the regional railway company Trenord, which runs frequent regional and local train services on the line.