High-speed route
Frecciarossa
Milan → Trieste · Italy
- Distance
- 403 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 8 min
- Average speed
- 97 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia
- Train
- ETR 600
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 2023
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A tilting ETR 600 Frecciarossa crosses the Po plain and Veneto from Milan to Trieste on the Adriatic, a run it took over in June 2023.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 546969 (257 km), relation 9764225 (145 km) — 402 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 3 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 10009 (Zug-Nr. 10009)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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