An ETR 600 high-speed train, operated by Trenitalia in 2023
Pendolino (from Italian pendolo[ˈpɛndolo] "pendulum", and -ino, a diminutive suffix) is an Italian family of high-speed tilting trains (and non-tilting) used in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the UK, the US, Switzerland, China, and Greece. It was also used in Russia from December 12, 2010 until March 26, 2022.[1] Based on the design of the Italian ETR 401 (itself utilising technologies developed for the British Rail APT-E), it was further developed and manufactured by Fiat Ferroviaria, which was taken over by Alstom in 2000.
The idea of a tilting train became popular in the 1960s and 1970s, when various rail operators, impressed by the high-speed rail services being introduced in France and Japan, wondered how they could similarly speed up travel without building a dedicated parallel rail network (as those two countries were doing). By tilting, the train could go around curves designed for slower trains at higher speeds without causing undue discomfort to passengers.
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Pendolino (from Italian pendolo [ˈpɛndolo] "pendulum", and -ino, a diminutive suffix) is an Italian family of high-speed tilting trains (and non-tilting)...
The British Rail Class 390 Pendolino is a type of electric high-speed passenger train operated by Avanti West Coast in the United Kingdom, leased from...
Pendolino is a class of high-speed tilting trains built by Alstom Ferroviaria (Fiat Ferroviaria) for Trenitalia and Cisalpino. As of 2024, Pendolinos...
operate at speeds of up to 250 km/h (155 mph). In agreement to the use of Pendolino trains policy, only some sections of the railway lines of Frecciargento...
produced the experimental Y 0160 in 1970, that would evolve into the Pendolino family, in 1976, and operated in 11 countries. All of these had problems...
further to 125 mph (201 km/h) and the introduction of tilting Class 390 Pendolino trains. As much of the line has a maximum speed of 125 mph (201 km/h)...
450) was the first series Italian tilting train (also called Pendolino). The Pendolino project was started in the 1970s by FIAT Ferroviaria. Development...
built by Alstom Ferroviaria, which belong to the fourth generation of the Pendolino family. Due to the active tilting technology, the car bodies can be tilted...
the rolling stock used for these services consisted of 56 Class 390 Pendolino high speed electric multiple units and 20 Class 221 Super Voyager diesel-electric...
which was known by the name Pendolino and was later designated under TOPS as the Class 390. It was expected that the Pendolinos would run at service speeds...
ETR 450 ETR 460 ETR 470 ETR 480 ETR 600/610 (New Pendolino) These models are often referred as Pendolino. ETR 200 ETR 220 ETR 300 (Settebello) ETR 250 (Arlecchino)...
PKP Intercity rolling stock. The €665 million purchase of twenty Alstom Pendolino high-speed trains delivered in 2014 was financed in part by €342 million...
December 2012. Eurostar trains, which were launched in 1997 to replace the Pendolino trains, were always for the line from Milan to Rome and its expansions...
Virgin West Coast with brand new tilting trains.. It was expected that the Pendolinos would run at service speeds of up to 140 mph (225 km/h) and that the whole...
The Sm3 Pendolino (originally branded as Pendolino S220, and usually referred to simply as the Pendolino) is a class of high-speed body-tilting trains...
operated by Alstom to maintain Avanti West Coast's British Rail Class 390 Pendolino stock for the West Coast Main Line. The GWR on reaching Wolverhampton...
between Washington and Boston. Although Amtrak initially favored a New Pendolino derivative, the train set trailers are based on the AGV and power car...
2001. It was during his tenure at Roma that Cafu earned the nickname Il Pendolino ("The Express Train" or "The Commuter"). Despite making the Coppa Italia...
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