High-Speed Italian Train Introduced
The first of four new super-rapido trains departed from Rome on Sunday morning and reached Milan in 4 hours and 55 minutes.
The trains, traveling at speeds of up to 124 m.p.h., shave about an hour off the 393-mile trip in an ordinary rapido train, previously the fastest way to travel between the two cities. There are two trips a day in each direction.
The $78 one-way, first-class ticket includes lunch or dinner in a restaurant car. Three hostesses offer newspapers, magazines and coffee to passengers in their seats.
The introduction of the new trains is the first step in a modernization program by the Italian rail system that foresees trains capable of traveling more than 180 m.p.h., making the Rome-Milan trip in 3 hours and 15 minutes, railway officials said.
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