Credit: Avanti West Coast. Pendolino is a high-speed tilting train manufactured by Alstom Ferroviaria. It travels at speeds up to 250km/h on conventional tracks, eliminating the need for specially ...

Once upon a time, trains didn't tilt. They just ran quickly along straight lines and then slowed down when they came to a bend. These days, passengers on Italian-designed Pendolino trains on the ...

Virgin will introduce its Pendolino in June 2002. The Swiss ICN tilting train is allowing SBB to achieve its service targets. Italian railway FS was the first to introduce a regular tilting train ...

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Once upon a time, trains didn't tilt. They just ran quickly along straight lines and then slowed down when they came to a bend. These days, passengers on Italian-designed Pendolino trains on the ...

Last night, however, the train and its Italian designers were credited with saving dozens of lives. The tilting mechanism allows it to corner faster than conventional trains and the £11 million ...

some of which are also capable of tilting at high speed. The new trains have been built in the UK using technology developed in Italy where Pendolinos have been running for many years. In Italy and ...

"So we just reduced the amount of tilt." Yet British Rail was concerned at the length of time it was taking to make the train work - and in the early 80s scrapped it. For that reason, the technology ...

Later, there were reports the train made passengers sick and there ... The Italian-designed Pendolinos - Pendolino is the Italian word for "tilting" - are being built by the Alstom company at ...

The original train can still be seen in the Crewe Heritage Centre. The technology was sold to Italy, which had begun experimenting with tilting seats on trains in 1974. By 1984 Fiat Ferraviaria ...

A HIGH-SPEED tilting train which can reach speeds ... used on its North-East equivalent from July next year. The trains are built in Italy and are capable of speeds of up to 140mph, although ...