Trenitalia’s High Speed Frecciarossa Now Serves Bari, Italy

Italy, September, 2015 –

The network of Italy’s premier high speed train, the Frecciarossa, is now serving Bari, Italy. The infrastructure upgrade to handle 200 kilometer/hour speeds with the ETR 500 tilting train between Bologna and Foggia has been completed and service has begun.

The daily 869km round trip between Milan and Bari has been reduced by over an hour from 7 hours 43 minutes to 6 hours 30 minutes.

High speed rail is nothing new in Italy as the Italian government has been gradually upgrading the right of way and equipment since the 1970s.

The service change was made after the deployment of the new Frecciarossa1000 trains on Milan to Rome services this past June, 2015. The ETR 500 equipment was then made available on the Venice – Rome – Naples – Salerno route, and now the Milan – Bari line.

A 125 mph Frecciabianca northbound run originating was swapped out for the redeployed ETR 500 Frecciarossa equipment.

PHOTO CAPTION: Pictured is the Frecciarossa ETR 500 in the famous trainshed in Milan, Italy.