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Beware, Eurostar: The .Italo Train Will Floor
It Through Italy
June 15, 2009 at 12:37 PM
We are
positively blushing with excitement over the latest
NYT
train travel news out of Italy: in 2011, a "new privately owned high-speed train
company,
Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori, will introduce a stylish, candy-apple-red
fleet of 25 trains collectively known as .Italo."
It's estimated that speeds on the new train will
reach 225 mph, effectively cutting the old 6-hour trip between Rome and Milan
down to three hours—the Eurostar does it no faster than four hours now. This
won't be the only . Italo route however, as it's scheduled to run the main
corridors between Turin and Naples, crowded routes
we know all too well.
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