High-speed route
Frecciarossa
Milan → Rome · Italy
Frecciarossa in pictures
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- Distance
- 562 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 59 min
- Average speed
- 188 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia
- Train
- Frecciarossa 1000
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 2009
- Runs
- every 15–30 min across operators
- Riders per year
- ≈ 8M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Italy’s flagship corridor: since 2009 the airlines’ share has collapsed, and the ETR 1000 is engineered for 360 km/h.
Italy’s flagship corridor stitches together the country’s high-speed spine: Po plain to Bologna, base tunnels under the Apennines to Florence, then the Direttissima, Europe’s first purpose-built high-speed line begun in 1970, down the Valdarno to Rome. Frecciarossa 1000s and Italo’s dark-red AGVs duel on the route at up to 300 km/h, with the fastest runs city centre to city centre in under three hours. Bologna is passed in a cathedral-quiet underground high-speed station opened in 2013.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2179315 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 5 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of FR 9519
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Po plain sprint
- Bologna’s underground HS station
- Apennine base tunnels
- Valdarno and Chianti edges
- Roman campagna
- Termini beneath the Servian Wall
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