#5065· FS ETR 480
FS Class ETR 480
🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Fiat Ferroviaria· from 1997· tilting electric train with no locomotive
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- 1. T-Biz: Federico Cantoni (Jollyroger)· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 2. ETR 480 Alta Velocit: Guybrush Threepwood at Italian Wikipedia ( Original text: Guybrush Threepwood )· Public domain
- 3. ETR 480 Alta Velocit (interno): Guybrush Threepwood at Italian Wikipedia ( Original text: Guybrush Threepwood )· Public domain
- 4. ETR480-10-40A: Utente:Jollyroger· CC BY-SA 2.5
- 5. ETR480-10-40A2: Utente:Jollyroger· CC BY-SA 2.5
what is it?
The ETR 480 is a tilting Electric Multiple Unit built by Fiat Ferroviaria (now Alstom Ferroviaria) since 1993, It is also known as Pendolino. It was developed from the first new-generation Pendolino, the ETR 460.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 29 years ago, in 1997.
- Top speed is 1.9× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 10 minutes.
- 6 MW is about 71 family cars (~85 kW each) flat out.
- Weighs about as much as 68 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 237 m long: about 53 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 480: 10 full city buses (~50 seats each).
high-speed train: Built for 200–350 km/h on dedicated lines, like the TGV, ICE or Shinkansen.
spec sheet
- built
- 1997
- in service from
- 1997
- number built
- 15
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Fiat Ferroviaria
- designer
- Giorgetto Giugiaro
- operators
- Trenitalia
- top speed
- 250 km/h
- power
- 6 MW
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- ETR 480: 3 kV DC Overhead catenary; ETR 485: 3 kV DC, 25 kV 50 Hz AC
- formation
- 9 cars trainset: 3 1st class cars, 1 bar-restaurant car, 5 2nd class cars.
- length
- 237 m
- weight
- 409 t
- capacity
- 480 passengers
- Dutch name
- FS ETR 480
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q902279, Wikipedia: FS Class ETR 480 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.