Italy‘s Frecciargento high-speed train | ETR700 Business/First Class | Bologna - Verona

[@travelmentaryTV]

Buona sera everyone, hope you're doing alright! In this episode of travelmentary TV you can see a train with an interesting "career": demoted in the Netherlands, promoted in Italy 🇮🇹 Enjoy!

[@DanielsUKT]

It is good that the trains were available for service in Italy and not wasted after being withdrawn in Belgium and Netherlands. Italian high speed trains do look pretty luxurious and the country itself is very beautiful and has contributed alot towards the world culture and technology. As for the GDP I knew North Italy was very industrialised but it still came surprise when you said the po Valley alone makes up half the economy. I guess it makes it harder for the rest of the country when the GDP is focused like that

[@travelmentaryTV]

Hi and thanks for watching! I agree it‘s good that these trains are rolling in Italy now giving the passengers more travel options. I wonder though what kind of problems there were in the Netherlands and how Trenitalia has solved them. Christian from travelmentary TV

[@jeroenstalman3668]

@@travelmentaryTV the following text is translated from a summary of an investigation conducted by the dutch parliament winter problems Damage and falling of plating, loosening of large pieces of ice that had grown on the train, the horn becoming unusable, snow getting into electrical boxes, door steps becoming unusable and cracking in certain places on the outside of the trains (which AnsaldoBreda says is caused by icing). Assembly problems The loosening of a door, the tearing of a cable, the spontaneous opening of side hatches, the loosening of roof strips. battery fire Fire in a battery of a decommissioned Fyra. According to AnsaldoBreda, the fire is the result of poor maintenance of the battery after the Fyra was taken out of service, according to the NS it was due to a defective design of the low-voltage system. In the period between 9 September 2012 and 6 December 2012, all this resulted in an average failure rate of 11 percent on the Amsterdam-Rotterdam route. On ten days the failure rate is more than 30 percent and on five days 50 percent of all Fyras themselves fail. in addition to these matters, several things also went wrong with the approval of the train. You can attribute these errors not only to the train manufacturer, but also to the Dutch regulators. hope that it has become clear why they were not allowed to drive in the Netherlands.

[@travelmentaryTV]

@@jeroenstalman3668 Sounds like the story has all ingredients of a political scandal 😅 Thanks for sharing! Christian from travelmentary TV

[@jeroenstalman3668]

@@travelmentaryTV a political scandal? sure! 2 ministers have resigned. especially when it became known that the entire fyra project cost 800 million euros of taxpayers' money (I'm still paying for it😅)

[@travelmentaryTV]

@@jeroenstalman3668 I guess you have to travel to Italy to have at least something of the 800 millions that were spent on the train 🚂 😅

[@TheArtrentin]

Sad thing is on December 2022 are etr 700 frecciargento to etr 700 frecciarossa

[@travelmentaryTV]

Hi, are all of the ETR700 rebranded to the Frecciarossa brand by now? Or are there still routes with Frecciargentos operating?

[@TheArtrentin]

@@travelmentaryTV etr 700 I traveled from Verona to Milan December 2022

[@andreafire27]

​​@@travelmentaryTVthe frecciargento and frecciabianca brand it's been dismissed now all the frecciargento trains are been "promoted" to frecciarossa and all the frecciabianca trains are been converted into normal intercity (now intercity trains have a new livery)