The rebirth of the FYRA in Italy with the ETR 700 Frecciargento - Still disastrous ?

[@asdsdjfasdjxajiosdqw8791]

It's incredible to me that the same company that built the ETR 500 and ETR 1000 also built some of the worst trains and trams of the last 30 years.

[@fecciargento5102]

Etr 1000 has been projected by Bombardier. Ansaldo Ferroviaria just built it in its factory. But, since Ansaldo had huge financial troubles, the factory has been sold to Hitachi and now it's working great. Etr 500 has been manufactured by the consortium TREVI, (Ansaldo, Breda, Fiat Ferroviaria, ABB Tecnomasio, Firema Trasporti). Etr 500 is also a 33 year old train. Ansaldo was very different at that time. Not to mention in the 30s when they projected and built the etr 200 (one of the fastest and most modern train on earth at that time), or in the 50s with Settebello and Arlecchino trainsets.

[@maxart3392]

@@fecciargento5102 Oh yes, ETR 200 was way ahead of the time: it already had bogies between the cars and its design still makes it one of the sexiest looking trains of all times. I hope any of them is preserved. Stiil remember the times when they were in regular service as "treni rapidi" which I couldn't afford at the time.

[@radopetrov4727]

No, Freciarossa is 60% Ansaldo Breda and 40 Bombardier. V250 has many problems indeed, but the low price tag always comes with a price.

[@fecciargento5102]

@@radopetrov4727 Frecciarossa 1000 is Zefiro 300 project. You can find a variation of this train in China (Zefiro 380) with wide carbody. Mitrac engines, Flexx Speed bodies, carbody and open tube architecture are from Bombardier. So what do you mean when you say that it is 60% from Ansaldo?

[@Hans-gb4mv]

It's almost as if trains for the domestic market are designed with a higher standard of quality.

[@jacopomainoldi9025]

As long as these trains don't cause service disruptions, I think Trenitalia made a good choice in getting its hands on these older but cheaper trains. At the end, seeing the amount of people they move it's simply more revenues for the company. I'm sure when Trenitalia will decide to change these trains for newer Frecciargento ones, they'll buy a newly made train for the whole service.

[@BrawlBRSTMs500X]

Despite the lacks of baths for a train like this, I traveled with the Albatros a lot and I love it. It's just like a train should be nowdays for me. Can't wait to travel on it again! I tried Premium and standard class, now I have to try business class with larger seat!

[@xinlu2806]

I went on this train last year and quite liked it, I didn’t notice the noise you complain about.

[@ammarmangala9814]

they totally refurbished those trains.

[@benklomp4616]

Trenitalia did a great job with the refurbishment. However, you cannot change a duck into a swan. It remains a crappy train.

[@DehnusNorder]

It never was crappy, just not a high speed train. It never was intended to be, so it was forced to be something it was not due to the Dutch being ultra cheap and not listening to people telling them to go with tried and true designs. Like Siemens designs or Alstom. Heck you don't even need a ICE clone, even their non highspeed designs can reach 200+ km/h, more than plenty of what was needed for this line. But the Dutch wanted a High speed line, for pennies on the dollar. Rather than a normal train that goes 200km/h for the same price or a high speed one for more.

[@briganti.thomas07]

Quel treno non fa schifo

[@dodo_nothebird1994]

A bit like the whole dutch train system...

[@RobertDoornbosF1]

@@dodo_nothebird1994 Except it's one of the best in Europe

[@dodo_nothebird1994]

@@RobertDoornbosF1 said by who? Oh yeah, another Dutch 😅

[@yallowrosa]

4:00 the hilarious external design of the train (shaped as a duck/dutch face) was explicitly required by the initial Holland railway authorities the designer Pininfarina just renamed it "Albatros"

[@trainlagged]

Apparently, it wasn't all AB's fault for the Fyra failure - AB did accuse SNCB/NS for running the trains incorrectly in cold/icy conditions. It's sad to see the technical problems of this train still haven't been fixed, though. Nice video! :)

[@zeekade79]

The Fyra debacle was a HUGE thing here in NL... Interesting to see what eventually happened with these trains! I always thought the issues were a bit exaggerated but watching this video, it's a flimsy train indeed! Makes me wonder what would happened if NS/NMBS kept it...

[@tovenaartinus]

Nothing. Because this trains lost the license for running on the tracks. They Tried to fix it in the Nederlands but the trains were too bad to fix. The trains were send back to italy and they hoped to get back as much money as possible. Now there are very old and slower trains running on the high speed line for since the fyra stopped. They also have many problems but at least they dont fall apart on their own.

[@OntarioTrafficMan]

NS has bought new Alstom Corradia Stream (Intercity Nieuwe Generatie) trains which will run the former Fyra route. They only run 200 km/h compared to the 250 km/h Fyra, but hopefully they will actually be reliable.

[@Skinksalladen]

@@OntarioTrafficMan It's really unfortunate since the HSL allows for trains to run at 300km/h nearly all the way Schiphol - Antwerp. The Thalys (with a 300km/h top speed) saves about 35 minutes compared to the current IC Direct (top speed 160km/h) on most scheduled departures. If all the trains had a higher top speed that would probably allow for better scheduling and even faster services, especially for Amsterdam-Rotterdam.

[@tovenaartinus]

@@stocks_9750 no the replacement trains are slower.

[@PTB_BE]

@@stocks_9750 Dude, the ETR700 is shit.

[@NSE465]

I really like these ETR 700 "Albatross" units. Yes thats their actual name. They had issues before but theyve had them ironed out and its made a pretty abysmal train into something decent. Admittedly there's gaps and issues but considering its history it could be worse.

[@theothertonydutch]

I think it's an ugly looking thing, though arguably that's better than a bland looking thing. Might even be a future classic give or take 50 years.

[@AndreiTupolev]

Interesting that it still carries the old number 4883 (4:22), which identifies it as one of the former Belgian SNCB owned sets

[@thomass8118]

Thanks for the review, Thibault. Altough the train still isn't perfect (and sometimes encounters problems - which has been shown in trip reports from others), it's nice to see it hasn't been scrapped. Shame the problems could not be resolved (for whatever reason) when it was running in Belgium/The Netherlands.

[@gharwood1356]

It was certainly mains frequency. If you were sat in a car with the pantograph, it was probably the main transformer. Not good! The higher pitched noise when on the DC lines was probably the thyristor power converters for the motors.

[@Hans-gb4mv]

Thyristor's haven't been used for decades, and they are passive components that can't make any noise except a bang when they fail. High power electronics are made with IGBTs these days.

[@gharwood1356]

​@@Hans-gb4mv I'd forgotten I was talking to railway enthusiasts. I used thyristor to indicate the switching devices. The noise is produced by the switching modules as they commutate. Some Austrian locos even play part of a musical scale as they start.

[@johngarritzcx6733]

Wat about The Taurus locomotive i.m from Holland they.re not allowed to the NL such aan shame. I would love to hear it accelerate at the trainstation 😊😊agreat and musical🚂🚆🚄

[@vindictivegrind9370]

Simply Railway: **Inspects the restroom** **Restroom fixtures work surprisingly well** Restroom Door: **Proceeds to lock Simply Railway inside** **Cyberpunk 2077 theme intensifies** 12:31 *Trenitalia Frecciarossa wants to know your location*

[@coolsadface3444]

ansaldo breda also made the danish ic4 train that sufferd so many problems and was extremley late

[@pietromanenti1998]

In the Trenitalia's fleet this is probably the poorest high speed train in terms of quality. But of course this is also due to the really high quality of the other trains, especially the Frecciarossa. Quite loud ambients and some sensors "not smart" are for sure there and this is bad. Anyway, to be honest I wouldn't criticize so much the lack of comfort (very similar to a lot of similar high speed trains in Europe) and the plugs (I think you were really just unlucky, every seat has a usb port and a plug that has always worked when I travelled on this train). For the guys writing don't buy trains from Italy I just respond that one of the most beautiful train of the world, the Frecciarossa 1000, is entirely constructed in Italy and some Frecciargento and Italo's trains as well. So don't be prejudicial!

[@00hl4l4]

I think the issue is with the AnsaldoBreda trains that weren't designed or made in collaboration with another train manufacturer. Both generations of the ETR 500 were built by consortiums of multiple companies including AnsaldoBreda. The Frecciarossa 1000 was developed with input from Bombardier. The various trains including the Fyra that were built by AnsaldoBreda with small amounts of design input from companies with less experience in train design were the ones plagued by issues. The problem isn't with Italian trains but with AnsaldoBreda trains, but because AnsaldoBreda trains were the only trains exported out of Italy people judged them as Italian trains. Hitachi took over AnsaldoBreda's operations in Italy and the trains they make seem to be fine showing that it was an AnsaldoBreda issue not an issue with how Italian people were working.

[@federicapuliga432]

secondo me il frecciabianca è molto peggio del frecciargento, se lo si vuole considerare un AV anche se dubito fortemente che lo sia davvero

[@wasmic5z]

The FYRA wasn't the only crappy train that AnsaldoBreda managed to produce, though. The Danish IC4 trains and the order for trams in Gothenburg also turned out disastrous. They had a long history of making big promises to win the contracts, and then utterly failing to deliver on those promises. They also produced some trams for Boston that had a lot of problems, IIRC. Then, AnsaldoBreda was bought out by the Japanese company Hitachi, and became Hitachi Rail Italy. Since then, they've slowly been improving, but some of HRI's trains still have a lot of problems! The new "Azuma" intercity trains for the UK are not unreliable, but they're known for being noisy and flimsy. However, they've been getting better over the years. The ETR 1000 was built as joint venture between the Canadian company Bombardier (which has since been bought out by Alstom) and Hitachi Rail Italy. So even though it was built in Italy, it wasn't a purely Italian project. I am certain that Italian trains will keep on getting better and better - but there's a good reason why people are still distrustful of them, and that reason is AnsaldoBreda.

[@ferrarisuper]

@@wasmic5z when the Frecciarossa 1000 was designed and the first 50 units were built, Hitachi Rail Italy wasn't a thing. Also basically 90% of the italian rolling stock was mostly made by Breda at Pistoia, and all those trains worked fine

[@00hl4l4]

@@wasmic5z @wasmic5z the Azuma trains (class 800) were built in Newton Aycliffe with bodywork made in Japan, there was no involvement of Hitachi Italy. The class 802 (known as Nova 1, Paragon, or IET depending on operator) were built at Pistoia in Italy after Hitachi took over AnsaldoBreda as Newton Aycliffe was at capacity. The initial Azuma/class 800 trains (built from 2014 onwards) that had some issues were all made in the UK (with bodywork shipped from Japan), construction on the 802's (made in Italy) began in 2017 so I don't think this is a fair criticism of Italian train manufacturing.

[@dinostudios6579]

I just rode on one of these when I was in Italy and it wasn't bad. I didn't notice the noise and the doors worked lol. Maybe it's just my low American rail expectations but I don't think I would've thought anything of the train if I didn't know from before.

[@juliendefreyne7240]

TRES bele video je kiffe tre beau train italien

[@gwnlars_8306]

4:31 You can still see the brakecheck-indicator. I don't know if its mandatory in Europe. But here in the netherlands it is..

[@osasunaitor]

You are talking about the little red/green indicators for brake status, right? Here in spain lots of trains have those as well, although mostly useless because they always end up covered in graffiti paint 🤦‍♂️

[@gwnlars_8306]

@@osasunaitor Yup!

[@tenny_tenten]

2:59 Wow that graffti artist is aware of the of Fyra's controversy and failure, and that guy vandalised with "DON'T BUY TRAINS FROM ITALY", i think he was caught but he said "well these trains are crap and im aware to these failures!" But these trains have a new life in Italy tho, and didn't encounter the mess that was happened on Fyra........kinda

[@johanjansen6417]

Sat in the train from Bari to Venice. Also had that strange noise, but then for 6 hrs. The ETR 1000 is way better in my opinion

[@richardc488]

Thank you Mr Simply!

[@janbaukespoelstra6839]

I traveled one time with this train when it was from NS in the Netherlands and there where these grey doors !

[@bubba842]

I get to do this trip in July when we go from Paris to Milan and then Venice. Looking forward to it.

[@marinhopaais426]

In Italy it received a real chance. In Belgium and the Netherlands not at all.

[@intersezioni]

Another debacle of the Dutch railways, after the fyra, after the intercity alstom, just in these days the railways of the Netherlands, NS, have released a very harsh statement against Infraspeed, the company that built and must maintain the infrastructure of the HS line. The reason is easy to say, the high-speed line has "dramatic" speed limits because it has a lot of problems. The company writes: "NS considers it unacceptable that the operator Infraspeed must again impose a speed reduction on the high-speed line (HSL). The railway line, designed for a maximum speed of 300 kilometers per hour, in several places has maximum speeds as low as 120 kilometers per hour. From Wednesday the speed will be further reduced to 80 kilometers per hour in five places due to construction cracks discovered in 2022. Obviously in this case too it is Ansaldo Breda's fault! A railway company run by incompetents!

[@timosha21]

Ding ding! I'm a tram and I approve this video!

[@simmo-dieredaktion1107]

Nice Video! I think Milan as a City is not the coolest, but the station is just great. Best one in Italy!

[@RedRocketthefirst]

Nah its ugly

[@mariosphere]

Milan is a tipically "love at the second sight-city" - it offers much hidden treasures even if it isn't a flawless beauty.

[@federicapuliga432]

milan it’s fuller of hidden gems, at first sight it’s quite normal to think it has a few things to offer. do you know that i live in milan since i was born and i discovered some beauties of this city only this year? hahaha

[@frozensushi5165]

The story if the Fyra reminds me of a story that goes almost the same, of a train I Denmark the IC4 also build by… you guessed it, AnsaldoBreda. That train was also, as you might know, plagued by technical issues and delays, although I do not know if DSB sued AnsaldoBreda 🤔

[@Headbreak1]

Madrid's metro also bought trains from AnsaldroBreda and...well, their traction motors had a tendency to fall to the tracks. They are a maintenance nightmare.

[@mano_max_sakuragi]

HOWEVER AnsaldoBreda is no longer exist because HITACHI has absorb it and change it's name to HITACHI RAIL ITALY And their (Hitachi ITALY) seem to be look quite well.

[@AndrewNeymar]

@@Headbreak1 Exacto, no te olvides de los descarrilamientos en la línea circular donde tienen prohibido rodar.

[@RedRocketthefirst]

'denmark' doesn't exist

[@frozensushi5165]

@@RedRocketthefirst what do you mean?

[@ce1834]

"It's back" Belgians and the Dutch: *PTSD intensifies*

[@TheNatje]

As a Belgian (and railroader with SNCB) I still get goosebumbs from the word Fyra 😂😂

[@Benito-Musolesi]

Are you involved in pedophily or was abused by your parents when a child?

[@giulianogermeno9558]

Great video thank you and well done!!

[@kanchanananayakkara8959]

Though it is not really an aerodynamic design, I like that unique, front of a car like nose design.. Sad that the fleet was not so successful…

[@adithyaramachandran7427]

I took the Frecciarossa on this route back when they had food at the cafe. It was quite tasty.

[@dennisd9914]

Was that ship at Fincantieri a Leonardo class cruise for Norwegian Cruise Lines?

[@markoobid2005]

Yes it's Norwegian Prima.

[@michaelhall8586]

Wow so quiet! The Italians have such style with everything

[@davideva8640]

Useless

[@MaartenOtto]

Its not the FYRA experience I used to have when working on these trains. The bolts of the light fixtures flying around your head, loud bangs from the roof when entering a tunnel, random odd emergency brakes when flushing a toilet…. Yeah great stuff. Opened a bottle of champagne when they were banned to operate.

[@osasunaitor]

Lol, emergency brakes when flushing the toilets, really??? XD

[@antoniodamico2564]

that is why when tracks are covered in snow dutch trains do not run?

[@kevanhubbard9673]

I saw one of those Frya's when I was going from Rotterdam to somewhere, can't remember where,a few years ago when I was in the Netherlands little did I know they wouldn't be there long!

[@thegeneralbenjamin9518]

Getting a haircut, lol.

[@RailsOfTheSouthProductions]

In train barbershop, characteristically Italian 🤌🏻😂

[@AndrewNeymar]

Saludos, Ansaldobreda también tuvo problemas en Madrid, en el metro, su serie 7000 tuvo desde desprendimiento de motores hasta descarrilamientos en este caso en L6 Circular, tras las quejas del gobierno regional tuvieron que corregir sus fallos, creando una serie hermana, la 9000 sin apenas problemas. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@HuSerrVVVF]

Aparte, ahora los 7000 y 9000, por fin han acabado siendo el tren que deberían haber sido desde el minuto 1, eso si, después de mil reparaciones y mucho dinero gastado a lo largo del tiempo.

[@juliendefreyne7240]

merco pour cette publication sympli railway

[@truckerallikatuk]

What is it with trains these days having concrete for seat padding? Every new train seems to go that way.

[@RC534]

I think there are going to enough Dutchies like me and Belgians who are curiously going to watch this video :-). Good that they managed to get it working properly eventually!

[@ilex471]

I had a copy of the original report by the Dutch train maintenance shop that assessed this train 10 years ago. Sadly i don't have it anymore, but it was devastating. I tried to photograph a Fyra from Amsterdam to Brussels in the last week of 2012 on the Dutch-Belgium border near Breda, I was freezing my b*tt off, and it drove by so fast (then) that i didn't have time to focus properly. Alas, a week later the service was discontinued, the only photo i have of it is one of several trains standing in a marshalling yard somewhere near Amsterdam, waiting for better times.

[@Benito-Musolesi]

Honland trains workers are better like vetrine workers, belgian involved in pedhophilie..

[@williammerry4746]

Good video. Bad train. Great report...viewing the grand and beautiful station in Milan makes this video worthwhile.

[@mickel1634]

Such a shame it failed here in Belgium... To this day in my opinion I still think this train is one of the prettiest trains pit there, especially in the white livery...

[@markm-1976]

I did the Milan to Venice journey in the summer of 2017 on the Frecciarossa 1000. It was a great journey. I do not fancy the 180 miles (280km) journey aboard an old Fyra train - i knew trenitalia were bringing them into service after years out of service - that loud electrical noise in the video is awful - they need back in the workshop for that to get fixed. The hard seats are like the blue hard faux leather seats in FS regional train carriages which i travelled on my return journey from Venice to Milan - changing at Verona - from an FS double deck regional on to a Trenord train.

[@Nicky_TM]

Although I’m glad we’re replacing them with higher quality Coradia streams, I am quite sad that the speed from the trains will be downgraded to 200kmph compared to the Fyra which could do 250kmph

[@WiardiVK]

True, but it also means the train will be a lot lighter and quicker, making it convenient to use them for domestic 140 km/h services too. With a heavy and long train it would be way less convenient

[@martyv954]

Fyra was such a massive fail by NS (Dutch Railways) , still NS sucks hard, trying to get better, but can’t manage to release new trains

[@LiamWalsheliamskitchen]

I arrived in Europe (in Brussels) on January 18, 2013 and I still remember there was a LOT being said about this train. I'm so glad I paid the extra $$$ for Thalys to go to Amsterdam that day. That said, Thalys was also a disaster when I took it to Paris from Amsterdam a few days later due to minor winter weather and a train that didn't show up. It was, however, memorable because I got to travel in the small "meeting room" compartment at the very back of the train - sitting next to none other than Judith Sargentini - an EU MP. A Karen who was assigned to my seat tried to make me move, but because seat reservations were suspended as a result of the issues, she was told to sit elsewhere. It was also bad because of a 160 km/speed restriction, which meant it took around 6 hours to make the trip.

[@osasunaitor]

What a trip! Probably not the european train experience you were expecting...

[@LiamWalsheliamskitchen]

@@osasunaitor but it was funny when Ms. Sargentini told me to stay where I was and politely told off the Karen.

[@antoniodamico2564]

every time dutch railways experience snow or wind storms passenger experience cancelled trains or completely cancelled service

[@lisapt6702]

I hardly ever see you complain, so this was probably even worse than it looked. Sorry you got stuck in the bathroom - what a mess. I hope your next trip is an amazing one

[@emmanuelmeysman820]

The 1000 looks good bacause it was bombardier that have made the train with AnsaldoBreda .

[@danielparrott8339]

How would you compare these with the ETR610 or an ETR4XX (as that is probably the direct comparator)? The ETR610 is amazing on the outside, but (like you), I found the ride problematic, and the interior not comfortable (for instance, there was a bin where I wanted to put my knee). Although the seats in the UK Pendolino are horrible, the ride has been much better than the ETR610, so I was left quite disappointed, as I had been really looking forward to the ETR610. I haven't been on an ETR4XX. Apart from the noise, the ETR700 looks like a really nice environment, and it seems alot smoother than the Pendolino. And to the V250 haters- it got to its end destination without falling apart or catching fire- what more could you ask?!!! I think it will be interesting to see how much life Trenitalia gets out of them. Amazing when you realise they first started building these trains in 2004, so some are over 15 years old, but have only just started being used in regular service!

[@ol7926]

only a few Fyra trains were eventually repaired. Unfortunately, we still have no successor in the Netherlands and then I wonder whether the trains could not have been completely fixt here.

[@Alessandro_Brescia]

Great job friends of trains!!!!

[@williamthethespian]

Refreshingly honest and objective.

[@brianedelstein1271]

At 13:05, do I hear a woman, in English, say "that's f*ckin' nuts"?? 😆

[@lpt2606]

yup sound def like it hahaha

[@RedRocketthefirst]

Women moment

[@matthewcrump8213]

700 - International code for train with hard seats?

[@AndreiTupolev]

AnsaldoBreda was taken over by Hitachi and some of the IETs for the UK were built there. There still seem to be the same issues with build quality, though hard seats 💺 seem to be universal these days. Interior noise levels didn't seem too bad apart from the hum from the transformer (which would presumably only affect the pantograph coach), though, and ride quality seemed to be reasonably good

[@germanopolito5294]

The problem was just this kind of trains they made and still are making great trains such as frecciarossa 1000 and other great regional trains

[@timnewman1172]

That noise would creep the bejezus outta me... Looks like it would be a nice trip otherwise... on a different train!!! Thanks Thibault!

[@beanieshark05]

Thibault, what are your top three stations in europe and why?

[@manmeetsinghmahajan6183]

Amazing.

[@josephwong5755]

Vous avez raison! Le nez du ETR700 ressemble le Fiat Multipla!

[@davidaarthur]

Reminds me of Denmark's Italian trains, right down to the failing doors. And at least those were good-looking. But Milan station is always impressive!

[@milomhoek]

That's the thing with Italian products. They look great, but the quality...

[@user-kw9qu2gz8v]

@@milomhoek are you telling me this train looks good? This doesn't even have that redeeming quality.

[@Nils_Ki]

@@user-kw9qu2gz8v I am sure he meant the Danish train was looking good, the IC4. It is in service there, but still not working well.

[@jacopomainoldi9025]

@@milomhoek Everyone makes mistakes, even the great germans when my Audi A7 (100k € car) got its start&stop system broken. Unfortunately, they couldn't fix it, but they're germans so best quality, right?

[@milomhoek]

@@user-kw9qu2gz8v Ok true, haha

[@pakroomitrains]

Very nice and beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@francescotripaldi9721]

Probably the train is not top quality in terms of comfort, but it has not yet had significant safety problems, so make two considerations...

[@oli4wk]

6:25 there were to outlets, just vertical and Italian

[@Spotless-guy]

2:54 strange, it seems l8ke all the world wants the etr 1000 now… well we'll keep it for us then… 🥰✨

[@gewglesux]

That Noise sounds like someone left their Phaser or tricorder on by accident

[@DangItshere]

It seems that AnsaldoBreda is the most professional Controversial train builder from IC4 to the Fyra, glad they got bought up by Hitachi

[@carminesabinopalermo505]

Thanks for the video Simply, i like of this train the italian nike-name. The duck and Multipla Is very beautiful name. The most problem of this train in the few toilette. The train in good to a short journey, no to long journey, for example from Milano to Lecce. Bye

[@Teddini]

Does this train pass by treviglio? I'm not too familiar with Italian hsr. I love bergamo and treviglio and the only few times going to Milan I used regional trains.

[@mariosphere]

the hsr follows the highway, just 1-2km south of treviglio

[@Teddini]

@@mariosphere ohhh okay. And I guess that means that they don't stop there? Do they (hsr and local tracks) link together at some point or is the hsr solo until close to the stations? (like frankfurt Cologne hsr)

[@mariosphere]

​@@Teddini hsr don't stop between Milan and Brescia (it's only 36min). For Treviglio you have a Regional train which uses the old route and takes 29min form Milan.

[@Teddini]

@@mariosphere thanks for the information 😀❤️

[@johnburke1317]

Nice video 📹

[@everythingbyjanetdullaghan5122]

Love 🇮🇹

[@bellminsterboy]

Great video! Though I think the nose of the train is still quite ugly, the whole thing looks so much better in that smart Trenitalia livery.

[@Andrewjg_89]

It’s like the Greater Anglia Class 321s that been given a complete refurbishment and have been dubbed as “Renatus”. That is Italian for “Born again”. And some have still broken down.

[@andrex02scout]

Actually that's Latin and not Italian. Source: I'm Italian.

[@anyadaz]

ugh I remember my colleague used to commute on Fyra between Amsterdam and Rotterdam for a little while..... it was NOT fun from what I know.

[@silviomarzano8988]

Multipla was a Fiat Model like a SUV of the 90´s

[@lox_266]

4:01 don't worry, in all stations in italy the plattaform get sayed 1 minute of deparutre, even in small staions

[@upin_mnctipi]

12:48 what's train it is?

[@danielparrott8339]

Hitachi "Rock"- quite a crazy looking futuristic train: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio_(train)

[@Lorre982]

Hitachi ETR 621 model Rock, it is a commuter train

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Hope the at seat service sold ear plugs. I would get a migraine listening to those train sounds!

[@NicholasNormand]

hey there if ur gonna come to the USA number 302 and 301(ALC-42 engines the newest on the fleet for Amtrak) is leading the empire builder it already had it's inaugural run

[@christophe77700]

ahahahha, ils l'ont surnommé le Multipla !!! Les méchants ! 🤣 Je ne savais pas.

[@ВиталийБойко-з5й]

Ansaldo Breda? Isn't it a manufacturer of equally failed IC4 in Denmark?

[@davideva8640]

Yes

[@ozgirl45]

Omg. I think being locked in the toilet for 20 minutes and having to break your way out would absolutely make this train an epic fail. Even arriving in Venice wouldn’t make up for it. I assume it’s cheaper to buy old equipment and “refurbish” than buy new. And it looks like there were plenty of customers but I wonder how many were repeats.

[@herlescraft]

well... probably most of them, you have 3 ways of doing this trip you either use the highspeed service to bologna but doing so takes more than 3 hours and is double the price, use the regional service that requires a change but still takes more than 3 hours of travel time but in a straight line... or you use this highspeed train with a travel time of 2 hours and 30 minutes at the same price of the regional service... it's basically a no brainer, things will probably change once the high speed high capacity railway line currently under construction will be finished, but as it stands it's a reasonable service.

[@herlescraft]

oh and I almost forgot there is also some NTV service on the line and depending on the pricing it's highly competitive with the frecciargento

[@ringo7561]

Great video once again!! Bar/restaurant cars still closed? Last summer, besides Italy, I went to Switzerland, Germany, Austria, France on my 30 day first class Eurail pass. Italy was the only country that didn't have bar/restaurant cars open. I know it's still Covid concerns, any one have any idea when they will reopen since all the other countries did months ago. I just enjoy riding a train and enjoying a cold beer. I had to bring my own on in italy, and they don't serve them from service the cart either, because I asked for one.

[@federicapuliga432]

probably they reopen it from april, when we’re not supposed to wear masks anymore

[@ringo7561]

@@federicapuliga432 Thanks, I plan on going back this summer, Italy was great

[@ringo7561]

@@federicapuliga432 Thanks, I sure hope so, but my point was all those other countries had the same masks rules as Italy, yet their restaurant/bar cars were open , probably more of a cost cutting move is my theory

[@federicapuliga432]

@@ringo7561 yeah but i don’t think this is mask related and neither for costs

[@antoniodamico2564]

place yo go rule you find

[@paullaurent9771]

David Goodenough is THE projet chief of this train ! you should know that !

[@gpan62]

They really need to get some audio experts to pinpoint that noise, find the cause, and fix it. The automatic door sensors should be easier to fix, unless you're invisible, in which case you're out of luck. Thanks for risking your life in the name of transport, Simply 😉🤣

[@riccardoparenzan8401]

im italian and I think that the italians are the best designer and mechanical in all europe. if we dont' have the problem like corrumption,problem in the factory and no money I think that we will the best in all europe with our engineers; the other countries go forward because we sell to them our ideas and our skills. another example is alfa: if alfa didn't have economically problem in the 70s probably they would sell a lot of car now; alfa in the 70s have the best mechianical technique in the world but fiat ruined all.

[@liamlikesmsm]

Well clearly not by the trains

[@federicapuliga432]

@@liamlikesmsm frecciarossa is built by an italian company too lol

[@liamlikesmsm]

@@federicapuliga432 Frecciarossa is amazing.

[@federicapuliga432]

@@liamlikesmsm ikr

[@janbaukespoelstra6839]

Strange…..why can AnsoldoBreda make this time the train in good working order ?

[@duploman0003]

Because it is 8 years after the original delivery

[@OllieRamone]

The sound is like a jet engine

[@entroenbanda]

That noise seems to be the transformer under 25kV AC and some inverter under 3kV DC. And yes, really annoying. It's still a piece of crap train and also the front is ugly as heck.

[@arifalfarizi1972]

Mantap kawan salam dari Indonesia🇲🇨

[@yallowrosa]

As a cheap semi-high-speed train, it is GOOD!

[@everythingbyjanetdullaghan5122]

And Switzerland 🇨🇭

[@panisvit7123]

I would always pick ITALO for this route - the ATR is so much better and the staff couldn't be more friendly and obliging.

[@alessiofalco8550]

Coach 1 noise free.

[@stefanokasuga4384]

The sensors of the automatic doors are all subject to breakage sooner or later, for this reason on almost all trains in Italy, the doors between the carriages all have the opening and closing buttons. The only remaining problems on this train are two: one the furnitures. I admit that the chairs are not exactly comfy. And two: the biggest problems: the low number of toilets!!!! Imagine this: a man suddendly has an urgency...then he need to run between carriages. And pray all the Saints in Heaven that: 1) the bathroom is not broken, 2) the bathroom is free :DDDDDDD Really a bad bad bad choice here, especially for a long travel between two cities.

[@BubblesBub434]

the Dutch railways are notoriously shit (no pun intended) at toilets in trains. Many of their 'koploper' long distance intercity sets only have 1 (!) toilet per EMU, or at most two. VIRM sets have 1 toilet every other or even every third carriage, and they use double-deck cars. Then there's 'Sprinter' commuter services that have no toilets at all. BlauwNet(Keolis) rides regional services between two major cities with no long-distance-train alternative (Zwolle, Enschede) where the journey takes over an hour, and they use FLIRT's that have 1 toilet that is practically always broken down to the point that they instructed their personnel to allow people in the conductor's compartment to take a leak if necessary. It's laughable. Point being, I bet the Dutch Railways just asked the FYRA designers to not put many toilets in, Dutch train travellers are primed to expect nothing, not drink anything before and during a long train journey already so they could just get away with this as well.

[@stefanokasuga4384]

@@BubblesBub434 Oh my...really? I thought that the ETR 700 case for the number of toilets was unique.

[@raffaelemartini3684]

In the original project, this train was supposed to cover the Brussels-Amsterdam section in about an hour and a half, almost as if it were a fast metro. The dutch specifications therefore envisaged few toilets in favor of more places. Trenitalia has not been able to change this aspect, although I think it has some ideas about it. However, on the Milan-Venice section, the train is adequate, because it is a two-hour journey, which would be the work for which it was designed

[@samtrak1204]

Milan station is awesome.

[@Miloniki]

Where are you from Simply Railway?

[@N1120A]

He's French

[@RedRocketthefirst]

@@N1120A unfortunately

[@TheArtrentin]

Update the etr 700 was transformed from frecciargento to frecciarossa

[@buzzukfiftythree]

Thanks for the video Thibault. We travelled on this line in 2014 using the Freccibianca services and they were fine. Not sure I'd want to spend the same amount of time in the Frecciargento train.