FS Class ETR 480

The ETR 480 is a tilting electric multiple unit built by Fiat Ferroviaria, now Alstom Ferroviaria, since 1993, also known as Pendolino. It was developed from the first new-generation Pendolino, the ETR 460. The main difference between the ETR 460, ETR 470 and ETR 480 is that the 460 runs only on 3 kV DC, the 470 on both 3 kV DC and 15 kV AC, and the 480 on both 3 kV DC and 25 kV 50 Hz AC. The ETR 480 was originally built without real 25 kV AC electrical equipment, which is now installed on all the sets, and the trains that have been converted are re-measured as ETR 485. One of these units was sent for testing on the Greek railway TrainOSE, on the high speed line between Thessaloniki and Katerini, and in August 2018 the unit 485,031 was transferred from Italy to Greece for test routes.