Travellers to Italy can now enjoy shorter journey times when planning trips to Italy’s prime destinations. For visitors wishing to include Naples and its attractions (Vesuvio, Pompeii etc) in the Roman leg of their trip, the new high speed service puts Naples a mere hour and twenty seven minutes away.
Work commenced on this line back in 1994 and 90% of the high speed link is completed. Italy’s rich past came once again to the fore as over 23 archaeological sites were discovered during the work phases on the Rome-Naples line which meant rail works progressed alongside exploratory digs. The remaining 20km will be finished by 2008, when the high speed line links are connected in to the neapolitan metropolitan services. This new hub central station, planned at Naples-Afragola, will also be a regional link to stations in the heel and toe of the peninsula.
The overall Italian high speed line will resemble a T, with an west-east link from Turin through to the Adriatic port of Trieste, which will link in to the Slovenian line to Eastern Europe, and on the western side linking in to the French service into Lyon and onwards. Plans to link the port of Genoa to Milan are underway, which will in turn link into Trieste. In this way the principle business and tourist sites in Italy are or will be linked with high speed services, offering travellers major time savings on reaching their destinations and removing the hassle-factor of reaching overcrowded airports.
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