Le Frecce

Le Frecce is the high-speed rail train categories operated by Trenitalia in Italy.

FS ETR 1000 as Frecciarossa
FS ETR 500 as Frecciarossa
FS ETR 600 as Frecciargento
FS ETR 485 as Frecciargento
Frecciabianca
Frecciabianca-control car
E 402B Locomotive in Frecciabianca livery

History

In 1997, a new category, "Eurostar", was introduced as the brand name of the high-speed trains run by Trenitalia in Italy. Since 2006, trains started to be operated and promoted under further sub-brands and less and less sold under the name "Eurostar".

In June 2012, the category Eurostar was officially divided into various subcategories indicating various high-speed services. The new categories created were Frecciarossa (literally, Red Arrow) for the fastest trains, Frecciargento (literally, Silver Arrow) for the next category of trains and finally Frecciabianca (literally, White Arrow). Since all these three train categories are named as "Freccia" (literally, Arrow), the high-speed trains operated by Trenitalia are named "Le Frecce", on a par with TGV in France, ICE in Germany and AVE in Spain.

Frecciarossa

Frecciarossa trains operate at speeds of up to 300 km/h (190 mph). It runs mostly on high-speed line and is the premier service of Trenitalia and competes with .italo, operated by Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori.

The service is provided by ETR 500 and, since June 2015, by ETR 1000.[1] There are four classes, namely, Executive, Business, Premium and Standard class, with a restaurant car.

There are plans to increase the speed of Frecciarossa service to 350 km/h in intermediate-term. Comprehensive test-runs with ETR 1000 were carried out from Autumn 2015 to the end of 2016.[2][3]

Frecciargento

Frecciargento trains operate at speeds of up to 250 km/h (160 mph). In agreement to the use of Pendolino trains policy, only some sections of the railway lines of Frecciargento are high speed and it runs on conventional rail lines in the other sections.

The third (ETR 485) and fourth (ETR 600, ETR 610) generation of Pendolino trains are employed for Frecciargento trains. There are two classes (first and second class) as well as one restaurant car.

Frecciabianca

Frecciabianca trains operate at up to 200km/h (ETR 470 and ordinary Frecciabianca) and 250 km/h (ETR 460 Frecciabianca) on conventional lines.

ETR 460 and ETR 463 of Pendolino family are used in services between Rome and Reggio Calabria, Ravenna and Genoa. Since December 2015 ETR 470 has also been used in the Rome-Reggio Calabria line.[4] FS Class E.414 and FS Class E.402 locomotives are used in other lines.

There are two classes and a corner bar in Frecciabianca services.

See also

References
  1. "Frecciarossa 1000: al via dal 14 giugno il servizio commerciale". FSNews (in Italian).
  2. "Treni, record italiano di velocità per il Frecciarossa 1000: 385,5 km orari" (in Italian).
  3. "Linee AV a 350 km/h: concluse le prove" (in Italian).
  4. Redacione (2015-11-25). "Avvicendamenti in vista per gli ETR.470 e 610 Trenitali". News ferroviarie (in Italian). Ferrovie.it. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
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