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The Milan–Bologna high-speed railway is a railway line that links the cities of Milan and Bologna, part of the Italian high-speed rail network. It runs parallel to the historical north-south railway between Milan and Bologna, which itself follows the ancient Roman Road, the Via Aemilia. The new railway follows the Autostrada A1 closely for much of its length. The new line allows faster traffic to run separated and increase the overall railway capacity between the two cities. The line is part of Corridor 1 of the European Union's Trans-European high-speed rail network, which connects Berlin to Palermo. The line is 214 kilometers long from the Milano Centrale to Bologna Centrale station, with trains taking about 1 hour and 5 minutes to cover the distance. The first section of the line on the outskirts of Milan was opened in 1997. A 15 km section between Bologna and Modena was opened for freight traffic in September 2006 and for passenger traffic in October 2007. The rest of the route was opened to commercial traffic on 13 December 2008 to coincide with the main European timetable change. The Bologna–Florence high-speed line, the remaining Milan-Novara section of the Milan–Turin high-speed line and the Gricignano di Aversa–Naples section of the Rome–Naples high-speed line opened to traffic in December 2009, completing the high speed line from Turin to Salerno, except for planned new stations at Bologna and Florence. ==History== |} The proposal to build a high speed line from Milan to Bologna was announced by the Italian rail operator Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) in January 1988. The proposal was slowed by legal actions related to several corruption investigations, which led to the Tangentopoli scandal. On 15 October 1991 FS established a new company, Treno Alta Velocità SpA (TAV), to plan, build and manage the new Italian high-speed lines. Its design was approved on 21 December 1993, leading to the commencement of the process to gain environmental and governmental approvals for the route. Final approvals were gained for the project in the Bologna area and between Milan and Parma on 23 July 1997 and for the rest of the route on 31 July 1998. On 15 March 2000, TAV, Italferr (FS's engineering division) and the ENI/CEPAV UNO consortium signed a contract to build the line. Construction works were initially expected to take 69 months at an expense of €4.9 billion. In fact, it ended up taking 96 months and costing €6.9 billion. The first section of the new Milan-Bologna was opened in 1997 between Milan Rogoredo and Sordio junction. The new line was built to trunk line standards, rather than as a high-speed railway and was electrified at the traditional 3,000 V DC, rather than the 25 kV AC to be applied to the main high-speed section. Construction of the rest of the new line started in 2002 under the direction of TAV. On 29 May 2005 the new line was extended south to Melegnano-Tavazzano and the temporary junction at Sordio was closed. On 11 September 2006 the trunkline between Castelfranco Emilia and Lavino was brought into operation, while the section between Lavino and Santa Viola was opened on October 10, 2007. On November 2007 the laying of tracks and the provision of technological systems and electrical equipment was completed for the rest of the new line. Testing of systems in preparation for its opening started on 16 December 2007. During these tests, at 17:23 on 1 March 2008, a new Italian railway speed record of 355 km/h was set by an ETR 500-Y near Parma, beating the previous record of 352.026 km/h which had been set on 25 May 2006 by an ETR 500-Y test train on the Torino–Novara section of the Milan–Turin high-speed line. The railway line between Melegnano and Castelfranco east junctions was opened for training on 2 October 2008. Consequently, the tracks between the Melegnano and Tavazzano junctions and between Castelfranco station and Emilia Castefranco east junction became interconnection lines between the traditional and the AV-AC lines. The opening of the line took place on 13 December 2008 with an inaugural trip made by an ETR 500 ''Frecciarossa'', classified as ES * 29405, with a load of journalists and politicians. The line was opened to commercial traffic the next day, with the introduction of the new Trenitalia timetable.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Milan–Bologna high-speed railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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