High-speed route
Italo
Milan → Rome · Italy
Italo in pictures
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- Distance
- 570 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 59 min
- Average speed
- 191 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- Italo · NTV
- Train
- AGV 575
- Countries
- Italy
- In service since
- 2012
- Runs
- ≈ every 30–60 min
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Italo was Europe’s first private open-access high-speed operator; its Alstom AGV 575 links Milan and Rome in under three hours.
Italo made history in April 2012 as Europe’s first private open-access high-speed operator. Ferrari-red trains, a founding shareholder list headlined by Luca di Montezemolo, and the only Alstom AGV fleet ever to enter service. Its arrival forced Trenitalia into the fare-and-frills war that made Italian high speed the continent’s best value, and the Milan–Rome trunk remains the flagship battleground: under three hours, cinema coach on some sets, espresso that does not apologise. The AGVs’ articulated carriages and 575 name nod to the record-breaking TGV lineage.
How this line was checked
- The 567 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 2179066 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 5 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 4223 (Zug-Nr. 4223)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Milano Centrale under the great arches
- Po plain sprint
- Bologna’s underground platforms
- Apennine tunnels
- Valdarno run to Rome
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