(Finance) – The technical tests of the Frecciarossa 1000 on the railway line between Madrid and Barcelona. ILSA, consortium participated by Trenitalia (FS Italiane Group), is in fact carrying out tests on Spanish tracks, the last phase before the final homologation of the train on the Iberian railway network. This will enable a “iryo“, the company’s trade name, to offer passengers a new high-speed offer by 2022 with the commercial sales phase to be launched between September and October.
The possibility of offering High Speed connections in Spain is part of a process that began in November 2019 with the assignment by ADIF, manager of the Iberian railway infrastructure, of 30% of the connections on the HS network, an offer second only to Renfe, the Spanish national operator. Iryo it will initially unite Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Malaga, Cordoba, Valencia, Alicante and Zaragoza and then extend to other connections.
The project initiated by Trenitalia in Spain – explains the FS Group in a note – aims to encourage more and more people to choose the train for their journeys, as indicated by the objectives of the European Union in terms of sustainability. The sharing of knowledge, gained in Italy in the High Speed with over ten years of experience of connections with Frecciarossa, will thus allow a further and important development of rail transport between the main Iberian cities.
The convoy that is carrying out the technical tests is one of the 20 new Frecciarossa 1000 built by Hitachi in the Italian factories with the same characteristics as those in circulation in Italy. The train is almost entirely recyclable and allows a saving of 80% of carbon dioxide per passenger each way and, for these reasons, it has obtained the Environmental Impact Certification (EPD).
In Europe the Passenger hub of the FS Italiane Group, of which Trenitalia is the leader, it is also present in France with Trenitalia France, active with connections between Milan and Paris and Paris and Lyon with the Frecciarossa 1000, in UK with Avanti West Coast and c2c, in Germany with Netinera, regional transport operator, in Greece with Hellenic Train and in Holland with the rubber operator Qbuzz.