High-speed route
Frecciarossa Milan–Reggio Calabria
Milan → Reggio Calabria · Italy
Frecciarossa Milan–Reggio Calabria in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,400 km
- Fastest time
- 9 h
- Average speed
- 156 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia
- Train
- Frecciarossa 1000 (ETR 1000)
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 2009
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The red arrow’s longest domestic run: the length of Italy from Milan down the Tyrrhenian coast to the Strait of Messina at Reggio Calabria.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 2179066 (568 km), relation 2169082 (213 km) — 781 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 93.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 10 m); the longest stretch away from it is 10 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Trenitalia — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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