Eurostar Italia was the name given to high-speed trains operated by

Trenitalia Trenitalia is the primary train operator in Italy. A subsidiary of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, itself owned by the Italian government, the company was established in 2000 following a European Union directive on the deregulation of rail transp ...

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. The brand was discontinued and replaced with

Le Frecce Le Frecce is the high-speed rail train category operated by Trenitalia in Italy. History In 1997, a new category, "Eurostar", was introduced as the brand name of the high-speed trains run by Trenitalia in Italy. Since 2006, trains started ...

in December 2012.

History

The category Eurostar, introduced in 1997, replaced the Pendolino trains and had always been for the route connecting Milan to Rome and its extensions. Since 2006 with the opening of the high speed lines the category gradually declined in several subcategories and the original gradually downsized. In June 2012, the category Eurostar was divided into various subcategories indicating various high-speed services. The new categories created were

Frecciarossa ''Frecciarossa'' is a high-speed train of the Italian national train operator, Trenitalia, and a member of the train category Le Frecce. The name, which, if spelled "Freccia rossa" means "Red arrow" in English, was introduced in 2008 after i ...

for the fastest trains (),

Frecciargento ''Frecciargento'' is a high-speed train of the Italian national train operator, Trenitalia, and a member of the train category Le Frecce. The name, which means "Silver Arrow", was introduced in 2012 after it had previously been known as Euros ...

for the next category of trains (), and

Frecciabianca ''Frecciabianca'' is a regional high-speed train of the Italian national train operator, Trenitalia, and a member of the train category Le Frecce. The name, which means "white arrow", was introduced in 2011 after it had previously been know ...

(). The final Eurostar services connecting Rome with Ravenna and Reggio Calabria operated until December 2012. The name ''Eurostar'' was used under license from

Iveco IVECO, an acronym for Industrial Vehicles Corporation, is an Italian multinational transport vehicle manufacturing company. It designs and builds light, medium, and heavy commercial vehicles. The name IVECO first appeared in 1975 after a merger o ...

, which owns the trademark and used the name for one of their trucks. Despite the identical name, there is no relation between this service and the

Eurostar Eurostar is an international high-speed rail service connecting the United Kingdom with France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Most Eurostar trains travel through the Channel Tunnel between the United Kingdom and France, owned and operated sep ...

railway service that runs through the

Channel Tunnel The Channel Tunnel (french: Tunnel sous la Manche), also known as the Chunnel, is a railway tunnel that connects Folkestone (Kent, England, UK) with Coquelles ( Hauts-de-France, France) beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. ...

Services

Various categories used until June 2012 were: * ''Eurostar Alta Velocità Frecciarossa'' (Turin-Milan-Florence-Rome-Naples), now only ''Frecciarossa'' * ''Eurostar Alta Velocità Frecciargento'' (Rome-Venice, Rome-Reggio Calabria, Rome-Lecce), now only ''Frecciargento'' * ''Eurostar City Italia Frecciabianca'', now only ''Frecciabianca'' * ''Eurostar Italia Business'', discontinued after opening high-speed line Milan-Rome * ''Eurostar Italia Alta Velocità Fast'', now included in ''Frecciarossa'' and ''Frecciargento'' * ''Eurostar Italia Fast'', now included in ''Frecciarossa'' and ''Frecciargento''

The trains

ETR 460 The ETR 460 is an electric multiple unit (EMU) tilting train produced by FIAT Ferroviaria (now Alstom Ferroviaria) since 1993. It is also known as the Pendolino after the family of trains from which it comes. The ETR 460 is a development of the ...

(''Eurostar'' service).

The lines

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