TRENITALIA FRECCIAROSSA 500 - Business Class Train Review (Rome to Milan)

Hello, and welcome back to another train trip report on my channel. For this week I am travelling on-board the amazing Frecciarossa 500 high-speed train operated by Trenitalia!
Special shoutout to ‪@NonstopEurotrip‬, who did a video on the other Frecciarossa train in Premium Class. Check out his video here: • Italy's FLAGSHIP Highs...
Today's route starts in Roma Termini, the main station of the Italian capital of Rome. From there it serves Roma Tiburtina, before speeding along at 250km/h (155mph) on the Direttissima (which translates to 'direct route'). That's not all, as once we arrive at Firenze S.M.N. (Florence), a reversal is made and we continue at an impressive 300km/h (186mph) towards Bologna and Milano, passing through the spectacular Reggio Emilia AV Mediopadana on the way.
These high-speed trainsets have had an interesting past, originally starting off with different powercars (renumbered to E.414) to the ones they have now (E.404). The former now are used on Frecciabianca and InterCity duties, quite a world apart from the 250km/h (155mph) running they were built for. Interestingly this train originally worked on Eurostar Italia services, not to be confused with Eurostar of today. This former duty is where the external and internal design come from.
I'm really happy with my journey on this Italian high-speed train, and there's much more Italian high-speed content coming up soon, so enjoy the video and be on the look out for more!
#trenitalia #frecciarossa #businessclass #tripreport
---
Journey Details:
Origin: Roma Termini
Destination: Milano Centrale
Company: Trenitalia DPNI
Train: FS E.404 + Frecciarossa 500
Accommodation: Business Class Seat (1st)
Distance: 352 miles / 566 kilometres
Price: €76.90 (£69.90 / $91.20)
Time: 3h40m + 17L
---
Find me elsewhere:
superalbs.weeb...
/ superalbs

[@eutral]

I have been to Italy few times and the Frecciarosdsa has become my current favourite train

[@gabri_maybe]

Oh look,it's me!

[@gabri_maybe]

@NathansRailwayVideos Its in my name and profile pic

[@gabri_maybe]

@NathansRailwayVideos No.

[@gabri_maybe]

@NathansRailwayVideos I am the ETR 500

[@joshclune149]

😂

[@dodaz5604]

Thank you for coming to Italy, you're always welcome. Italy has an amazingly good HS railway system, very efficient and high quality, it's successful. ETR/TAV is amazing and so are other Italian trains like the private Italo (like Thalys/Eurostar). Very much like france, similar to TGV.

[@fulvio935]

Thank you a lot! I am very pleased you like our railway system!

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Hope you look forward to my future Italian videos!

[@gentlegroove2]

Living in Italy for almost 4 years, the Frecce are Italian engineering at its best!

[@dodaz5604]

@@gentlegroove2 Yes, it's the best, very intelligent, Italian engineering is very good, high quality, efficient and ingenious !!!

[@anthonywarrener1881]

An excellent video ! I too am a huge fan of the Frecciarossa trains !

[@reetabishtnigam]

Will be travleming next month from Milan to Ancona by Frecciarossa Business class. I wasn’t too excited until and unless I saw your video! Now..can’t wait to be there😄

[@gabrielstravels]

I'm partially Italian. I've been on a Frecciarossa ETR 500 once from Florence to Rome back in 2008! Most of the times I'm in Italy, I tend to use the local and regional trains (treno regionale or regionale veloce in Italian)

[@marcodamasio]

11:46 there are actually 4 types of Frecciarossa services along the Turin-Milan-Rome-Naples line: -Turin-Rome/Naples calling at all stations except for Milan Centrale, it calls at Milano Porta Garibaldi instead; -Milan-Rome/Naples calling at all stations; -Turin/Milan-Rome/Naples calling at Turin, Milan (Centrale and Rogoredo), Rome and Naples; -Turin/Milan-Rome/Naples calling at Turin, Milan (Centrale only), Bologna, Rome and Naples; some trains may reach other destinations (like Brescia, Salerno or Battipaglia) but before Covid each of these services had a frequency of 1 tph, for a total of 4 tph, 2 "slow" and 2 "fast"

[@raffaelefiore6650]

The ones you call 'abandoned stations' at 15:20, are not such. They simply are trainstops along the historic 'slow' line between Bologna and Milano (anyway capable of speed up to 200 km/h), which along the first section after departing from Bologna, runs adjacent to the High Speed line, and join the HS Line again at Milan's door station, named 'Rogoredo'. Nonetheless, also the other two sections of the HS Line (Rome-Florence and Florence-Bologna) do have the old slow line running more or less adjacent to them.

[@robyoungquist5803]

The Reggio Emilia station looked AWESOME! I think whilst Business Class is perfectly acceptable, you’d probably find me reserving Executive Class. At this stage of my life, why not? 😉. As always I enjoy your presentations and can’t wait to be able to travel post pandemic 👍🏻

[@SuperalbsTravels]

It is an amazing design isn't it? I would love to do the Executive Class, but I'm not really able to afford it all the time. One day I'll give it a try!

[@Maloenton-Agency]

Never see Napoli Afragola Station ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6qvl3-NaK2tetU

[@ediboscutti4217]

Calatrava designed the station@@SuperalbsTravels

[@germanopolito5294]

6:54 that’s because it’s not meant for schuko plugs

[@federicapuliga432]

actually reggio emilia station for regional trains it’s another one, mediopadana was built only for high speed :)) btw very nice video i enjoyed it sm

[@rickygalle1053]

a failure on the on board systems in italian trains is normally referred to a temporary failure of the on board safety systems for speed an signal management control in high speed and traditional lines. if the on board train systems doesn't read the right code o if it doesn't read it at all when it passes over a balise or a signal, the emergency brakes automatically trigger. the train will not be able to move until the failure will be fixed. safety first!

[@MargaretCSullivan]

Hey, cans are easier to recycle than plastic bottles! I noticed also the disposable cutlery is wood? Maybe bamboo? Very environmentally friendly.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

I'm sure you're right, just never really encountered it before!

[@DanielsUKT]

Very nice video in business class the interior looks great

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Yeah, it was a great trip!

[@DanielsUKT]

@@SuperalbsTravels 😊😊😊👍👍👍

[@antoinedaniel436]

When you talk about Bologna Centrale, it’s better to be more specific: there are 27 plateforms but only four in underground. The others are in outdoor

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Good point, thanks!

[@raffaelefiore6650]

I'm sorry, you're wrong. Tracks at Bologna Centrale station are 25 overall, two of which (no. 2 and no. 5) are service tracks without platforms, therefore there're 23 tracks for passenger service only. They're distributed a s follows: No. 1 to no. 11 are surface passing-by tracks (2 of them without platforms); No. 15 to no. 18 are underground passing-by tracks (for High Speed service only); No. 1 to no. 7 'West Apron' are surface, dead end tracks on the West side of the station; No. 1 to no. 3 'East Apron' are surface, dead end tracks on tne East side of the station.

[@lokibau]

2:00 there was and old war-time law in italy that prohibited filming inside stations airports and other infrastructures. No one even bothered to cancel the law after wwii was over until the 90's if i recall, but you can still find someone unaware of the thing and still enforcing this old law, but it is very rare.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Wow, that's really interesting actually! Shame some people still enjoy bossing people around for things that don't matter though. 🙃

[@lokibau]

@@SuperalbsTravels i heard of those situations only in rome actually, and this may be related to the station workers that doesnt want to be filmed (because it is known that absenteism is quite spread amongst them, most notably on rome metro workers and rome local police), so my guess is that they pretend to not know about this law being revoked just to protect themselves.

[@AlanThomsonsim]

Really enjoyed that mate

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Thank you very much, glad to hear it. 😉

[@NSE465]

I believe that failure you experience enroute was something to do with TVM430 having a spastic moment. So the driver shut off the train and turned it on again to clear the errors. _I think_ please dont quote me on this, just that this happened recently to me as well.

[@CaseysTrains]

10:11 Aside from the cookies and breadsticks, the Microwavable pasta is so Amtrak lol.

[@tm8473]

The first part of the line betrween Bologna and Milan, is shared between HSTs and regular rails. The "abandoned" station is very close to the Borgo Panigale Airport Terminal (BLQ-LIPE). IMHO is possible that it was designed and realized to allow suburban trains to connect the area with the airport. No idea why this is not currently used.

[@enricomonti156]

I travelled on Frecciarossa services a few times between Bologna and Milan and between Rome and Bologna. Some other Frecciarossa trains do the Milan-Rome service without stopping at all

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Ooh yes, the extra fast ones that do it in 3h10m - impressive indeed.

[@MrItaliansound]

17:50 in European countries with warm temperatures, carpets are not very popular, especially in public places such as trains, too many people would walk there, they are not hygienic.

[@theobrattinga500]

Great video !!

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Thanks for that! ✌️

[@felix33617]

amazing video wish i have the chance to get onboard the Frecciarossa 500

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Thank you, hope you are able to ride them soon... 😏

[@stefanokasuga4384]

They just started changing the interior of this train. They will be similar to those of the more recent Silver Arrow ETR 700.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Wow - sounds interesting! Any links to information about this? Glad I got this interior in while I could.

[@stefanokasuga4384]

​@@SuperalbsTravels Here. translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ferrovie.it%2Fportale%2Farticoli%2F10017 It's in italian so i linked the translated article with Google so of course translation isn't accurate. Original link is here: www.ferrovie.it/portale/articoli/10017

[@SuperalbsTravels]

@@stefanokasuga4384 Nice one, thanks for that.

[@SuperalbsTravels]

I have a video on the ETR.700 coming soon. :)

[@antoinedaniel436]

Maybe the abandonned station is the old station of Reggio Emilia or the old station of Modena

[@enricomonti156]

No, it is a signalling control point called Santa Viola

[@aphraelk6214]

Thanks for showing the interior of the business class. Really wanted to know the luggage storage capacity, for my next trip ^^

[@ironmantrains]

They're planning to build a new underground high-speed station in Florence. And can you do a trip report on Frecciargento, the slightly slower train?

[@attenzioneallontanarsidall7940]

yes. the new high-speed station in florence is under construction. it's an underground station

[@Leotheexploreryt]

I been on one of those train this summer

[@alecc3073]

You have to try the Frecciarossa 1000 if you haven’t already I think it might be my favorite train out of all the Italian ones (I’ve basically been on almost all of them )

[@rosazito7623]

Ok grazie frecce toujour

[@Ajadizzul]

Maybe if u can travel with new pendolino. Your fav choise next future travel with new pendolino like poland,swiss or italy

[@Lindalindas1617]

Wooow

[@C.viscione]

I'm not sure which airline you are comparing the seats to but the legroom on the Frecciarossa is definitely more spacious than the airlines I've taken.

[@valerianocuomo996]

Very rich ital

[@morisdegraaf362]

Nice video! You say it has a fixed rate? So it doesn't matter how long in advance the ticket is booked?

[@stephanieluquin6197]

When buying your tickets, are the seats assigned at that point? I'm trying to buy two tickets but it will only let me buy one at a time. Did you purchase the tickets in advance? Thank you

[@SuperalbsTravels]

It should be done when you buy the ticket, yep! Are you using the Trenitalia website?

[@hoof2001]

Helps if you can stand pasta, isn’t it?

[@aminmohammad9499]

Do Frecciarossa next time but Salerno to Milan Central and depart from Rome Termini

[@andrewandrews1399]

Hi, interesting vlog but can you provide on your videos speed of the trains in metric system (km/h) not in miles (94.7% of the world uses the metric system by population. Regards Andrew Australia

[@SuperalbsTravels]

I put them in both units for ease of access. 👍

[@jimmenycricket4598]

It does seem odd there's no carpet on the floor of executive accommodation; to me that cheapens the product somewhat......then again it should be easier to clean (and keep clean)

[@attenzioneallontanarsidall7940]

carpeting is the most unhygienic thing in the world, especially right now.

[@jimmenycricket4598]

@@attenzioneallontanarsidall7940 I understand the point you are making, but for normal circumstances having carpeted floors does make rooms/spaces look more appealing - providing the carpet is clean

[@attenzioneallontanarsidall7940]

@@jimmenycricket4598 In Italy, carpet is not used as in Anglo-Saxon countries, first because it is not hygienic, second because it is not easy to keep clean, especially on a very crowded place like a train. For hygiene reasons, we Italians don't like carpet.

[@markoobid2005]

@@attenzioneallontanarsidall7940 but on the other side, Italo trains are carpeted...

[@jimmenycricket4598]

@@attenzioneallontanarsidall7940 I understand that carpeting is more of a Northern European than Southern European obsession; however on planes fairly certain you won't find any (certainly passenger planes) that are uncarpeted.

[@Hastdupech8509]

That pasta doesn't look that good tbh, but you're on a train/plane, they want to suck all of your money away. Same in the rest areas on motorways😒

[@SuperalbsTravels]

I found it to be nice! :)

[@Hastdupech8509]

@@SuperalbsTravels De gustibus non disputandum est👍🏼

[@vaughnwilliams1208]

"The Italian rail infrastructure is impressive , oh , we have come to 15 min. unexpected stop, technical control" 😁

[@MrItaliansound]

ahahaha how many trains do you use per month? It is something that can happen anywhere. It happened to me in the UK and in Germany and I assure you that they have worse trains than the Italian ones, especially in the UK. While if we want to talk about the delays and inconveniences that have happened to me on the German lines, I have a list of them.

[@valerianocuomo996]

Italy is rich

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Rich in culture! 😎

[@adamperry5151]

frecharoosa 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000yt

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!!! 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@itsmetaran]

Great video!

[@SuperalbsTravels]

Thank you, glad you liked it!