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The ETR 470 / Cisalpino

A truly international, fast and tilting train, the ETR 470 or better known by its operator's name, 'Cisalpino'! Since 1994, it runs in Germany, Switzerland and Italy, as a triple-voltage train being equipped for 15 kV/16.7 Hz alternating current and 1.5 kV plus 3 kV direct current. The maximum speed was put to only 200 km/h, unlike to its ancestor ETR 460 and its fellow ETR 480 (up to 250 km/h). Due to the tilting technology by Fiat Ferroviaria, now Alstom, the Cisalpino can tilt up to 8° when passing a turn.

One train consists of nine carriages, the engines are spread under the whole floor, similar to the ICE-T or 3 and thus has not got any powercars. The nine gracile Cisalpinos received their beautiful appearance thanks to the designer Giorgetto Giugiaro.
Incidentally, the translation of the nickname 'Pendolino' for the italian bend-racers is 'little pendulum'... :-)

The cab of an ETR 470 Cisalpino	Photo by Patti
Only a few time the sun manages its way through the hazy air of the venezian lagoon	Photo by Patti
The bogies with the tilting technology, at the leading end trailer...	Photo by Patti
...and the transition between two passenger coaches	Photo by Patti
The noble, elegant front of the Cisalpinos	Photo by Patti
A more detailed view...	Photo by Patti
... onto his side profile!	Photo by Patti
The noses of a Cisalpino (ETR 470) and an ETR 500 monotensione (one-system) in a special livery	Photo by Patti
Get-together of Italy's fast stars, ETR 470 and 500	Photo by Patti
...And goodbye! As the signal shows red, the beautiful Cisalpino has already left Venice behind and heads towards Milano	Photo by Patti

The ETR 460 (for SLO)

The ancestor of the Cisalpino already mentionned before, the ETR 460, is not only rolling for Italy... other national railways have also made their decisions to buy these reliable, tilting supertrains.
This fact is also matching Slovenia, and their 'Pendolino' is doing e.g. the EuroCity service between Venice, Italy and Maribor, Slovenia.

Arriving from Maribor...	Photo by Patti
... in Venice	Photo by Patti
A closer look onto one of the bogies with the tilting technology. Besides the other ETR-'Pendolino' trains, it is e.g. also the ICE-T 1 (and 2) having such similar bogies by Fiat Ferroviaria/Alstom!	Photo by Patti