Frecciarossa Milan–Naples

The 300 km/h spine of Italy. Milan–Bologna–Florence–Rome–Naples runs almost entirely on dedicated high-speed track finished in 2009.

The full run down Italy’s high-speed spine covers 770 km in a little over four hours. Po plain, Apennine base tunnels, the Direttissima to Rome and the 2005 line onward to Naples, with Vesuvius rising as the finale. Italians treat it as a rolling national metro: the same ETR 1000 might carry Milanese bankers, Bologna students and Neapolitan families home for Sunday lunch. Through trains continue beyond to Salerno, and the fastest Milan–Naples schedules beat any plausible airport-to-airport door time.

Stations

1. 0 kmMilano Cadorna +3
2. 2 kmMilano Porta Garibaldi +4
3. 3 kmMilano Centrale +7
4. 13 kmMilano Rogoredo +3
5. 154 kmReggio Emilia AV Mediopadana +1
6. 218 kmBologna Centrale +7
7. 309 kmFirenze Santa Maria Novella +6
8. 312 kmFirenze Campo di Marte
9. 565 kmRoma Tiburtina +4
10. 786 kmNapoli Centrale +1

The stations that Wikidata lists as calls of this service, in order along the line as drawn here, with the distance along it. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• Po plain departure
• Apennine crossing to Florence
• Valdarno and the Direttissima
• Roman campagna pause
• Vesuvius into Napoli Centrale

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2179316 (569 km), relation 2169082 (220 km) — 786 km of the route between them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of FR 9535
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Frecciarossa?

The Frecciarossa runs 770 km from Milan to Naples.

How long does the Frecciarossa take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 4 h 10 min for the 770 km. That is an average of 185 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 300 km/h.

Who runs the Frecciarossa?

Trenitalia, with ETR 1000.

How old is the Frecciarossa?

The line has been in service since 2009. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

How often does the Frecciarossa run?

Hourly or better.

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