Private company

Ferrovie Emilia Romagna

Logo: it:Ferrovie Emilia Romagna, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Italian railway company

Ferrovie Emilia Romagna (FER) is railway company serving the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy. The company also operates buses. The company was formed in 1997 by acquisition by the Emilia-Romagna region of four previous state-owned railway companies:2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jan 1, 2001Founded1
  • Industryrail transport1
  • HeadquartersBologna1
  • Founded inBologna1
  • Websitewww.fer.it
  • Legal formsocietà a responsabilità limitata1
Staz ferr Bosco FER
Photo: Kabelleger / David Gubler ( http://www.bahnbilder.ch ), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Ferrovie Emilia Romagna (FER) is railway company serving the Emilia-Romagna region in Italy. The company also operates buses.2

Products and brands

  • rail transport

Listed on Wikidata.1

Ferrovie Emilia Romagna is the infrastructure manager for the following railway lines:

Parma–Suzzara

Suzzara–Ferrara

Ferrara–Codigoro–Pomposa

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Bologna–Portomaggiore–Dogato

Modena–Sassuolo

Reggio Emilia-Guastalla

Reggio Emilia-Ciano d'Enza

Reggio Emilia-Sassuolo

Casalecchio–Vignola railway

In the past, FER also used to operate passenger services on the formerly listed lines as well as the following lines, owned by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI):

Bologna–Ferrara

Poggio Rusco–Bologna

Modena–Mantua

Ferrara–Rimini

Parma–Fornovo

Fornovo–Fidenza

Bologna–Rimini–Pesaro

Parma–Bologna

Railway transport is now carried out by a separate company, Trenitalia Tper.

FER also operates goods transports on its network and on the RFI one.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ferrovie Emilia Romagna, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Società Suburbana FBV1

Timeline

  1. Jan 1, 2001Founded Founded in Bologna1