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The Rome–Naples high-speed railway line is one of the railways in the Italian high-speed rail network. Initially opened in December 2005, it is the first railway line in Italy to be electrified at 25 kV AC (instead of traditional 3 kV DC ) and the first in the world to use ETCS Level 2 in normal rail operations.
High-speed service was introduced on the Rome-Milan line in 1988–89 with the ETR 450 Pendolino train, with a top speed of 250 km/h (160 mph) and cutting travel times from about 5 hours to 4. [7] The prototype train ETR X 500 was the first Italian train to reach 300 km/h (190 mph) on the Direttissima on 25 May 1989.
The remaining sections of the Rome–Naples and the Turin–Milan lines and the Bologna–Florence line were completed in December 2009. All these lines are designed for speeds up to 300 km/h (190 mph). Since then, it is possible to travel from Turin to Salerno (ca. 950 km (590 mi)) in less than 5 hours. More than 100 trains per day are operated.
Major works to increase the commercial speed of the trains already started in 1967: the Rome-Florence "super-direct" line was built for trains up to 230 km/h (143 mph), and reduced the journey time to less than two hours. The Florence–Rome high-speed railway was the first high-speed line opened in Europe when more than half of it opened in 1977.
The French capital is Eurostar’s flagship destination, with journeys from London taking just two hours and 16 minutes. In 2023, Paris remains as popular as ever, welcoming over 30 million ...
With the inauguration of the Rome–Naples high-speed railway on 19 December 2005, and more specifically the section between Roma Salon and Gricignano di Aversa it was necessary to divert the Eurostar Italia high-speed trains onto the traditional line to reach the capital of Campania inbound and outbound.
Line 2 (Italian: Linea 2) is an 18.9-kilometre (11.7 mi) [1] [2] commuter rail line, part of the Naples metropolitan railway service (suburban railway service) in Naples, Italy. As of January 2024, Line 2 connects 12 stations. It is operated by Trenitalia.
It will offer fast connections with Salerno and Naples and eventually with Rome, Battipaglia and Reggio di Calabria. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana) announced in 2010 January 22 that it had selected the Italian-Belgian group led by Samyn and Partners architects and engineers to design the proposed Vesuvio Est high speed station on ...