High-speed route
Frecciargento
Rome → Lecce · Italy
Frecciargento in pictures
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- Distance
- 630 km
- Fastest time
- 5 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 115 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia
- Train
- ETR 485
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 2009
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A tilting ETR 485 runs Rome to the heel of Italy’s boot via Foggia, Bari and Brindisi, reaching baroque Lecce in the Salento.
How this line was checked
- The 205 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 2169082 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 9 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of FR 8315
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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