Frecciarossa Milan–Rome

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.

Stations

1. 0 kmMilano Centrale
2. 10 kmMilano Rogoredo
3. 214 kmBologna Centrale
4. 305 kmFirenze Santa Maria Novella
5. 566 kmRoma Termini

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them.

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

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 9515
• 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 562 km from Milan to Rome.

How long does the Frecciarossa take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 2 h 59 min for the 562 km. That is an average of 188 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 300 km/h.

Who runs the Frecciarossa?

Trenitalia, with Frecciarossa 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?

Every 15–30 min across operators.

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