New Pendolino

The New Pendolino is a class of high-speed tilting trains built by Alstom Ferroviaria, formerly Fiat Ferroviaria, for Trenitalia and Cisalpino. As of 2024 the Pendolinos have become part of the Avelia Stream high-speed train family. The name Pendolino identifies a family of high-speed tilting trains produced in Italy, named for the Italian word for a small pendulum, whose maximum tilt of 8 degrees allows speeds up to 35 percent higher than conventional trains. Developed by Alstom Ferroviaria, which inherited tilting technology, including that of the British Advanced Passenger Train, after acquiring Fiat Ferroviaria, they are built at Alstom's Savigliano plants in Piedmont and at Sesto San Giovanni near Milan, which supplies the traction converters. The Pendolino first began service in Italy in 1988 with the ETR 450, followed by the ETR 460, ETR 470 and ETR 480, and a new generation was launched in 2006 with the ETR 600 for Trenitalia and the ETR 610 and RABe 503 for Cisalpino, a railway company that ran trains between Switzerland and Italy, which Alstom labelled New Pendolino.