by Benny
Friuli Venezia Giulia is region of extreme North-Eastern Italy that bounds with Austria and Slovenia. As responsibility for regional transport was handed over to local governments and Trenitalia cut all cross-border connections in that area, the Friuli Venezia Giulia managers studied the MI CO TRA plan (Miglioramento COllegamenti TRAnsfrontalieri, or improvement of cross-border connections) under which new services from Udine to Villach (A) and from Udine and Trieste to Ljubljana (Slo) were implemented and new trains were bought.
Two Siemens ES64U4 locos came in for the Austrian connections (classified as E 190.301 and 302, they run under the banner of the regional operator Ferrovia Udine Cividale, FUC, at the head of ÖBB coaches).
For the Slovenian services instead were acquired from the Spanish builder CAF eight five-bodies "elettrotreni" of the Civity model.
On duty from 2014-15, they are pure 3000 V DC with three powered and three non-powered bogies, develop more than 3200 Kw and have a top speed of 160 km/h. The sets became the new ETR 563 class and, although property of the region, are given to Trenitalia for services in the territory and for the Slovenian connections required by the Friuli government. Images courtesy of Stefano Paolini and his Photorail.it site, probably the best Italian site for railroad photography.
Ciao
Two Siemens ES64U4 locos came in for the Austrian connections (classified as E 190.301 and 302, they run under the banner of the regional operator Ferrovia Udine Cividale, FUC, at the head of ÖBB coaches).
For the Slovenian services instead were acquired from the Spanish builder CAF eight five-bodies "elettrotreni" of the Civity model.
On duty from 2014-15, they are pure 3000 V DC with three powered and three non-powered bogies, develop more than 3200 Kw and have a top speed of 160 km/h. The sets became the new ETR 563 class and, although property of the region, are given to Trenitalia for services in the territory and for the Slovenian connections required by the Friuli government. Images courtesy of Stefano Paolini and his Photorail.it site, probably the best Italian site for railroad photography.
Ciao
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