Frecciarossa Rome–Venice

Frecciarossa 1000 sets cross from Rome over the Apennines and the Po plain via Florence and Bologna to reach Venice in under four hours.

The Venice arrows leave Rome on Europe’s oldest purpose-built high-speed line (the Direttissima, begun in 1970) climb through the Apennine tunnels past Florence, then swing north-east across the Veneto plain. Padua’s domes and the Euganean hills mark the final act before the causeway: a two-minute glide across open water into Santa Lucia, where the platform ends at a vaporetto stop. Under four hours from the Colosseum’s city to the Grand Canal.

Stations

1. 0 kmRoma Termini
2. 261 kmFirenze Santa Maria Novella
3. 352 kmBologna Centrale
4. 513 kmVenezia S. Lucia

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

• Roman campagna
• Valdarno on the Direttissima
• Apennine base tunnels
• Euganean hills near Padua
• Lagoon causeway into Santa Lucia

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 12914903 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 4 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4 km
• Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of FR 9406
• 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 528 km from Rome to Venice.

How long does the Frecciarossa take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 3 h 45 min for the 528 km. That is an average of 141 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 300 km/h.

Who runs the Frecciarossa?

Trenitalia, with ETR 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?

Roughly hourly.

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