#5787· ETR 1000
Frecciarossa 1000
🇮🇹 Italy ·built by Hitachi Rail Italy· from 2015· high-speed train in France, Italy, and Spain
.jpg)
5 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Torino, Porta Nuova, Frecciarossa, 2: Renardo la vulpo· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 2. FS Trenitalia ETR400 15 (50832499597): Nelso Silva from Porto, Portugal· CC BY-SA 2.0
- 3. Executive, Frecciarossa1000: Teo Pollastrini· CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. Frecciarossa 1000 Business Class: MaxEmanuel· CC0
- 5. Frecciarossa 1000 at InnoTrans 2014: Björn König· CC0
what is it?
The Frecciarossa 1000 (also known as ETR 1000) is a high-speed train operated by Trenitalia in Italy and by Iryo in Spain. It was developed by a joint venture of Bombardier Transportation (now part of Alstom) and AnsaldoBreda (now Hitachi Rail Italy). With a design speed of up to 400 km/h (250 mph), it is among the fastest trains in commercial production in Europe, although operation in Italy is limited to 300 km/h (186 mph) due to infrastructure constraints.
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 11 years ago, in 2015.
- Top speed is 3.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
- At full speed it would cover Amsterdam–Utrecht (≈ 40 km) in 6 minutes.
- Weighs about as much as 83 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 202 m long: about 45 cars parked nose to tail.
- Seats 457: 9 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
- 2015
- in service from
- 2015
- number built
- 50
- kind
- high-speed train
- traction
- electric
- origin
- 🇮🇹 Italy
- builders
- Hitachi Rail Italy, ALSTOM Transportation Germany, Alstom, Hitachi Rail
- designer
- Mike Robinson and Bertone
- operators
- Trenitalia, Iryo
- top speed
- 400 km/h
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- electric system
- Overhead line:, 3, 3 (not active), 3, 3
- formation
- 4M4T; 1 Executive car, 1 Business car, 1 Business car with a bar-bistro, 1 Premium car, 4 Standard cars.
- length
- 202 m
- weight
- 500 t
- capacity
- 457 passengers
- Dutch name
- ETR 1000
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q370895, Wikipedia: Frecciarossa 1000 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.