RFI confirmation the engagements for the potenziamento of the Italian railway lines of connection with Switzerland



Friday, in occasion of an encounter between the summits of the societies that manage railway infrastructures of Switzerland and Italy in order to make the point to five months from the inauguration of the regular activity in the tunnel of base of Saint Gottardo ( on 12 December 2016), Gianpiero Strisciuglio, commercial director and exercise net of Italian Railway Net (RFI), have illustrated the engagements of the company for the potenziamento of the Italian railway lines of connection with Switzerland and inserted in the European Corridor IT TRY the Rhine-Alps.

Strisciuglio has confirmed that the participations of infrastructural and technological potenziamento preview the adaptation of the shape limit that will afford the high cargo transit four meters to the edge, the so-called "travelling freeway" (engines and semitowings loaded on railway wagons) and the container High Cube, the adaptation of the module of the railroads to the European standard of 750 meters, the maximum length of the railroads for the pause and the precedence in the stations and the main terminals goods, and the installation of technologies of last generation in order to increase the traffic ability, is goods is fleeting, of the railway lines.

Moreover in 2020, when in Switzerland the gallery of Ashes will be operating and will be concluded all the participations is Italy side is Switzerland side, the traffic ability goods will be of 390 trains/day, against the 290 today, of which 170 to the pass of Uproar, 90 to the pass of Luino and 130 to the pass of Domodossola, with sensitive improvements on the front of the regularity and the punctuality of the railway traffic.

Moreover the programmed participations will afford from 2021 to less connect Milan to Zurich in than three hours, being earned ulterior 30 minutes regarding the current times of travel already reduced thanks to the tunnel of base of Saint Gottardo.

To December 2017 the new Arcisate-Stabio line will enter in exercise that will connect Varese with the Canton Ticino and Como and will afford to reach the international airport of Milan Malpensa from the cities of central and southern Switzerland and to connect the guiding ones of the Sempione and the Gottardo thanks to the railway interchange of Gallarate.

At last the installation of the system ERTMS is previewed for phases on the lines of Italy-Switzerland pass that represents the European common language for the interoperability of the traffic and the circulation of trains of various nationality on the railway lines of the continent.