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- From: tgttgv@tb3.chem.tue.nl (Jan Vaessen)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Italian railways--is 1st class worth it?
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- Date: 24 Dec 92 10:06:25 GMT
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- ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
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- >> <<Direttissimo>> has never been an official train class.
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- >When I was on holiday in Italy in the early 1970s the train classes were
- >abbreviated to A, D, DD, R and TEE, which stood for Accelerato, Diretto,
- >Direttissimo, Rapido and Trans Euro Express respectively.
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- I guess you're right, the early 70s are way before my time. Somewhere
- between that time and 1985 they apperently changed the class
- <<Direttissimo>> to <<Expresso>>. I don't know why, because neither
- France, Switserland or Yugoslavia were using this class, only Austria.
- They might have changed the name because of the opening of the
- Direttissima, in the early 80s.
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- Jan Vaessen
- Eindhoven University of Technology
- Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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