Rail Transport In Italy Including Its History, High Speed Rail, And Railways Stations

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Italian railways are one of the most important infrastructures in the country, with 24,179 kilometres of track. They a... Read more

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Italian railways are one of the most important infrastructures in the country, with 24,179 kilometres of track. They are now experiencing a rebirth with the construction of the "high speed" Italian railways system. Italy opened the first high-speed rail route, the Direttissima, which connected Rome with Florence. Since then, Italy's high speed network has grown substantially. Services are provided by Trenitalia using both Eurostar Italia and the more recent ETR 500 series trains. This book studies rail transport in Italy including the Elettro Treno, the New Pendolino, and the the Milano Centrale railway station. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. Less