The high-speed train is named ‘Pendolino’, meaning small pendulum in Italian, due to its mechanism to tilt at bends. Pendolino trains have been in operation for more than 46 years. The technology was ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 elsewhere in Europe, tilting trains have helped railways ...

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 ...

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 ...

The name "Pendolino" is actually Italian for "tilting train." These trains came about in the 1960s and 1970s to help trains go on curves at high speeds. Of course, being on a train presents a new ...

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 ...

It's 30 years since the Advanced Passenger Train carried its last passengers. But did it in fact change the world?