The Pendolino is a family of tilting passenger trainsets originally developed by the Italian company Fiat Ferroviaria beginning with prototype testing in the 1970s and entering regular commercial service in Italy in 1988. Its tilting mechanism leans each carriage into curves, allowing higher speeds on winding conventional railway lines that were not built to modern high-speed standards without the discomfort ordinary trains would experience at the same speed, and the design and Pendolino name were later licensed and adapted for train fleets operated in several other countries, including the Class 390 Pendolino used on Britain's West Coast Main Line.
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SignificanceItalian family of high-speed tilting trains used in many countries. 1 In the Other Atlases
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Pendolino is an Italian family of high-speed tilting trains (and non-tilting) used in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia (operated by Czech railways), the UK, the US, Switzerland, China, and Greece.
History
One was put into public service on 2 July 1976 on the Rome-Ancona (later extended to Rimini) line, operated by Italian State Railways.
In Group: European High-Speed Trainsets, Lead sentence
Pendolino (from Italian pendolo [ˈpɛndolo] "pendulum", and -ino, a diminutive suffix) is an Italian family of high-speed tilting trains (and non-tilting) used in Italy, Spain, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia (operated by Czech railways), the UK, the US, Switzerland, China, and Greece.
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