TRENITALIA has dispatched an ETR 485 Pendolino tiliting inter-city EMU to Greece, where it will undergo tests on the Athens - Thessaloniki line.

TRENITALIA was quick to respond to the collapse of a major highway bridge over a railway between Genoa Rivarolo and Genoa Sampierdarena on August 14 which immediately affected train services in the Genoa area and will cause massive disruption to the road network in Genoa for months to come.

AFTER a 10-year hiatus, regular passenger services from Udine and Trieste to Ljubljana will be revived on September 9 thanks to a partnership between the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trenitalia and Slovenian Railways (SZ).

THE Italian Transport Authority (ART), headed by Mr Andrea Camanzi, issued infrastructure manager Italian Railway Network (RFI) with a €620,000 fine on August 2 for discriminatory behaviour in the sanctioning of operation at speeds exceeding 300km/h on the country’s high-speed network.