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- From: tgttgv@tb3.chem.tue.nl (Jan Vaessen)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Italian railways--is 1st class worth it?
- Message-ID: <tgttgv.725107390@tb3.chem.tue.nl>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 10:43:10 GMT
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- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Reply-To: tgttgv@chem.tue.nl
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- jbrandt@hplred.HPL.HP.COM (Jobst Brandt) writes:
-
- >I find the train classes interesting because when I rode them a few
- >years back they had: Rapido : local, Diretto : express,
- >Direttissimo : IC intercity with surcharge if under 100 km trip. If
- >the current postings are accurate, it seems that FS has a more
- >moderate perspective of the speed of their trains. The notations
- >that I experienced may have been left over from "Il Duce".
-
- >jobst_brandt@hplabs.hp.com
-
- Some comments:
-
- A <<Rapido>> is certainly not a local train. As a matter of fact,
- <<Rapido>> is no longer an official train class in Italy, they are now
- all named <<Intercity>> (IC) or <<Eurocity>> (EC) if they cross borders.
- This is probably to conform to a standard introduced by DB and SBB (EC
- is an official European standard, IC is not).
-
- The official train classes with FS are:
-
- local (< 150 km)
- regional express <<Diretto>> (< 300 km)
- express <<Expresso>>
- intercity <<IC>>
- eurocity <<EC>>
-
- IC and EC trains usually require a supplement and a seat reservation.
- <<Direttissimo>> has never been an official train class. It probably
- refers to the ETR 450, a high speed train, which uses the
- <<Direttissima>> (note the difference !), the high speed track between
- Roma and Firenze which parallels roughly the old, more curvy track.
-
- Jan Vaessen
- Eindhoven University of Technology
- Eindhoven, the Netherlnads
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