High-speed route
Frecciarossa Paris–Milan
Paris → Milan · France · Italy
- Distance
- 856 km
- Fastest time
- 6 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 125 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Trenitalia France
- Train
- Frecciarossa 1000 (ETR 400)
- Countries
- France, Italy
- In service since
- 2021
- Runs
- 2× daily
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Italy’s 300 km/h flagship on French rails, using the 13.7 km Fréjus tunnel of 1871: back since April 2025 after a 19-month landslide closure.
Trenitalia sent its Frecciarossa 1000s to challenge the TGV on home rails in December 2021, and the red arrows have become the stylish way between Paris and Milan. After a 300 km/h sprint across Burgundy the train slows into the Maurienne, threading fortress valleys to the 13.7 km Fréjus tunnel of 1871: the passage whose landslide closure severed the route for 19 months until April 2025. Turin and the Po plain bring the speed back before Milano Centrale.
How this line was checked
- The 618 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 3989302 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 28 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 14 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Trenitalia France — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- LGV Sud-Est sprint
- Lyon Part-Dieu
- Chambéry & the Chartreuse walls
- Maurienne valley fortresses
- Fréjus tunnel of 1871
- Turin before the Po plain dash
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