From 18 December 2021, Trenitalia operates a daily high speed train service between Milan, Turin, Lyon and Paris. In the future the subsidiary of the Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS) also wants trains from Italy to Brussels in Belgium and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Trenitalia has also ambitions in the United Kingdom and in Spain. 

Italian news outlet Il sole 24 ore broke the news. Trenitalia runs high speed day trains, not night trains. It uses Frecciarossa or Red Arrow as a brand for its HSTs. 

More than night trains, the Frecciarossa from the Netherlands and Belgium to Italy has the potential to become a fierce competitor to Thalys, Eurostar and SNCF‘s inOui (TGV). Nothing would prevent you to book a journey ‘only’ to Paris or Lyon for instance.

Frecciarossa 1000

The Frecciarossa 1000, also known as the ETR 1000, was co-developed as a joint venture between Italian rail manufacturer Hitachi Rail Italy (former AnsaldoBreda) and multinational conglomerate Alstom (former Bombardier Transportation). Both design and production work were divided between the two partner companies. 

The Frecciarossa is an interesting product with four classes.

1. Standard.
2. Business.
3. La Sala Meeting.
4. Business Executive.

These classes offer various degrees of services and thus cater to various types of travellers.

Little is known for firm plans, but this is exciting news.

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More on HSTs

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• ‘Disney Express’ by Thalys to Disneyland Paris / Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy.
• REVIEW | Thalys Lounge at Brussels South/Midi station.
• Antwerp – Brussels – Paris in Thalys Comfort 1.
• Travelling in Thalys Premium.
• TGV Inoui Brussels to Lyon in Corona times.
• SNCF inOui (ex-TGV) Marseille to Lille.
• Eurostar ex-Thalys trains will keep ‘ruby’ red livery after 2024 merger.
• On board a TGV Atlantique from Marne-la-Vallée – Chessy to Bordeaux-Saint-Jean.
• Travelling on TGV to Avignon.
• Paris – Geneva – Lausanne with TGV Lyria first class on an Alstom TGV Duplex.
• London – Lille – Brussels in Eurostar’s refurbished e300 / Class 373 / TMST.
• Brussels – London with Eurostar in Standard Premier.

On night trains

• CONFIRMED | 2022 RegioJet night train from Ostend to Berlin, Warsaw and Prague.
• SJ EuroNight announces 2022 night train service from Stockholm to Hamburg, no Malmö – Brussels for now.
• NIGHT TRAINS TO BERLIN | Stronger European Sleeper effectively takes over Moonlight Express.
• Moonlight Express and European Sleeper join forces under the brand European Sleeper.
• Malmö – Brussels night train to become Malmö – Brussels – Paris?.
• Moonlight Express wants a Barcelona – Perpignan – Brussels – Berlin night train.
• Ostende-Vienne Orient Experience plans tourist season night trains from Brussels and Antwerp to Salzburg, Innsbruck and Milan.
• GreenCityTrip: chartered night trains from Breda in the Netherlands to Venice, Prague, Milan, Vienna, Prague, Verona and Innsbruck.
• Not only Prague: RegioJet European Sleeper preparing Ostend – Warsaw night train.
• European Sleeper announces Berlin and Prague as destinations.
• Moonlight Express to offer night train services between Brussels, Liège and Berlin from April 2022.
• The couchette and sleeping cars for the Ostend – Brussels – Amsterdam – Berlin – Prague European Sleeper by RegioJet.
• ‘Hotel on rails’ Midnight Trains to link Paris to Edinburgh, Brussels, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Berlin, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid and Porto.
• The couchette and sleeping cars for the Brussels – Liège – Berlin Moonlight Express.
• Moonlight Express to include bar / restaurant coaches and sustainable quality food on Brussels – Liège – Berlin night train.
• 2021, European Year of Rail.
• ‘Green Speed’: Train operators Thalys and Eurostar to become one.
• European Sleeper to launch night train services from the Netherlands and Belgium in April 2022.
• Nightjet Vienna/Innsbruck to Brussels, or how we got thrown off the train in Aachen.
• NIGHTJET | Austrian Federal Railways ÖBB and Swiss Federal Railways SBB-CFF-FFS present 2024 Austro-Swiss night train plans for Europe.
• Why the expensive ÖBB Nightjet is really not that expensive.
• Reliving the era of the great railway journeys, travelling overnight on Nightjet.
• How we plan a big rail trip.
• Ticket Distribution: the failure of railways to sell themselves.
• Malmö – Cologne – Brussels Night train.
• BOOK REVIEW | ‘Night Trains, The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper’ by Andrew Martin.
• To use night trains in Portugal and Spain or not?.
• Night trains in Europe.
• Low-cost, long-haul trains to conquer Europe?.
• Fly now before it’s taxed and consider using the train instead.
• A passengers train from Antwerp in Belgium to Shanghai in China?.
• Venice Simplon-Orient-Express comes to Brussels in June 2021 and April 2022.
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• 2016 America Rail Adventure.
• 2017 Eastern Europe, Balkan and Greece Rail Trip.
• 2018 Poland Trip.
• 2018 Rail Tour of France, Italy and Switzerland.