Turin – Milan high-speed line

Turin – Milan high-speed line
Route number (RFI) :	9
Course book series (IT) :	11
Route length:	125 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	15  ‰
Minimum radius :	5440 m
Top speed:	300 km / h
Legend 0.000 Torino Porta Nuova 1,092 0.000 to Pinerolo – Torre Pellice and to Genoa 1,400 Galleria Copertura Trincea 1.465 Quadrivio Zappata ( from Pinerolo – Torre Pellice / from Genoa ) 2.139 Bivio Crocetta ( to and from Bardonecchia ) 3,566 Galleria Copertura Trincea (by Torino Lingotto) 3,943 5,850 Torino Porta Susa 9.359 PM Torino Reb. Fossata 10.006 Galleria Passante Stura di Lanzo 12.845 10.898 Torino Stura A 4 12.090 0.000 ex Bivio Stura ( to Milan ) 0.938 Cambio segnalamento Ferrovia Canavesana Malone Orco to Chivasso 21,585 Galleria artificiale (1688 m) 23.273 Dora Baltea 31.798 PM Cigliano (0.000) Interconnessione vercellese ovest from Turin (6,120) Bianzè to Mailand 38.647 PM Alice Castello A 4 / A 26 Santhià – Biella Elvo Santhià – Arona Cervo Sesia 68.206 PC Recetto A 26 Biella-Novara Novara – Varallo , Domodossola – Novara , Alessandria – Novara – Arona and Novara – Luino 84.686 (0.000) Bivio Novara Ovest Saronno – Novara (3,675) Novara Boschetto to Turin-Milan (3,810) Novara FNM by Saronno Ticino 102.731 PC Marcallo Turin – Milan A 4 121.700 Cambio segnalamento 122.043 PM Rho Fiera from Turin and Domodossola 122.495 Rho Fiera 126,589 8,526 Milano Certosa Metro and to Milano Porta Garibaldi Milan – Saronno Milan-Asso to Chiasso , Venice , Bologna and Genoa 0.000 Milano Centrale

The Turin – Milan high-speed line connects the industrial cities of Milan and Turin and is part of the Italian high-speed network as well as the TEN axis No. 6.

The 86.4-kilometer section between Turin and Novara was opened before the start of the Turin Winter Olympics in February 2006. The 38.3 kilometer section between Novara and Milan followed on December 5, 2009.

Route

The high-speed line starts at Torino Stura station and ends just before the gates of Milan at Milano Certosa station. The route runs largely parallel to the A4 motorway . There are two connections to the existing route, Vercelli West and Novara West. A branch Novara East has been prepared, but not yet completed. In connection with the construction of the high-speed line, the Torino Porta Susa station is being rebuilt. In the future there are plans to extend the line to the west as part of a high-speed line between Turin and Lyon .

The route includes 21 larger bridges of up to 3800 meters in length and 25 tunnels of up to 1500 meters in length.

history

On October 6, 2005, an ETR 500 reached a speed of 350.8 km / h. Operations began on February 10, 2006. Initially, two Eurostar train pairs were offered per day.

On February 10, 2006, the section between Torino Stura ( route km 0.3) and Novara ( Interconnessione Novara Ovest , route km 84.3) went into operation for the Winter Olympics . The remaining 38 kilometers to Milano Certosa should follow in July 2009.

With the opening of the section between Turin and Novara, travel time between Milan and Turin was reduced to 87 minutes. Since the completion of the remaining section between Novara and Milan, the journey time is still 52 minutes.

Since the train protection system ETCS Level 2 was not yet ready for use at the beginning, only one train per direction could use the new section. With the completion of the entire route, in connection with the old route, the maximum number of trains per day will increase from 244 today to 484.

On May 25, 2006, an ETR 500 set in the Turin – Novara section set a new speed record for rail vehicles in Italy at 352.026 km / h. On December 3, 2015, the ETR 400 unit 03 set another Italian speed record on the route with 390.7 km / h.

technology

The section between Turin and Novara was equipped with ETCS in February 2006 .

Web links

• rfi.it : Information about the TVA Turin – Milan of the Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New high-speed train between Milan and Rome
2. ^ Message from Milan to Turin faster . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 4/2003, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 180.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Report Italy: two new high-speed lines in operation . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 4/2006, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 193.
4. ↑ Two- system adaptation of the Trenitalia Eurostar trains . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 7/2006, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 364 f.
5. ↑ Message record in Italy: 352.026 km / h . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . Issue 7/2006, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 352.
6. ↑ 391 km / h in Italy . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 1 , 2016, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 33 .
7. ↑ Jacques Pore: ERTMS / ETCS - experiences and perspectives . In: signal + wire . tape 99 , no. 10 , 2007, ISSN  0037-4997 , p. 34-40 .