https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed France's international night train service has been steadily expanding and another new route will be added to the mix this summer - Marseille to Rome. https://www.thelocal.it/20250523/new-night-train-service-will-connect-marseille-and-rome Fri, 23 May 2025 18:16:04 +0200 new-night-train-service-will-connect-marseille-and-rome Italy's highest court on Friday quashed the manslaughter conviction of the former head of the Italian railways over a freight train disaster that killed 32 people in 2009. https://www.thelocal.it/20210109/italy-quashes-conviction-for-ex-rail-boss-over-crash Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:23:54 +0100 italy-quashes-conviction-for-ex-rail-boss-over-crash Rome Termini and Milan Central are two of Europe's top ten train stations, according to a new ranking. https://www.thelocal.it/20200218/rome-termini-milan-best-train-stations-in-europe Tue, 18 Feb 2020 12:35:09 +0100 rome-termini-milan-best-train-stations-in-europe Travelling by train in Italy this week? You might need to rethink your journey. https://www.thelocal.it/20191127/italy-train-strike-november-29-2019 Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:51:56 +0100 italy-train-strike-november-29-2019 A high speed rail link between France and Italy is now more likely to go ahead after election woes for Italian opponents to the plan. https://www.thelocal.it/20190528/election-results-give-boost-for-high-speed-rail-link-from-france-to-italy Tue, 28 May 2019 14:04:49 +0200 election-results-give-boost-for-high-speed-rail-link-from-france-to-italy The planned high-speed rail link between Italy and France will not be profitable, a controversial Italian government-commissioned report said today. https://www.thelocal.it/20190212/tav-italy-france-rail-line-would-lose-seven-billion-euros-report-says Tue, 12 Feb 2019 17:34:29 +0100 tav-italy-france-rail-line-would-lose-seven-billion-euros-report-says At least 27 people died on Tuesday in a head-on collision between two trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia in the latest rail tragedy to hit Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20160713/recent-train-disasters-in-europe Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:12:18 +0200 recent-train-disasters-in-europe Police fired water cannon on Tuesday at protesters on boats in front of Venice's Saint Mark's Square, as they demonstrated against a Franco-Italian accord on a controversial high-speed rail link. https://www.thelocal.it/20160309/riot-police-clash-with-protesters-in-venice-lagoon-showdown Wed, 09 Mar 2016 09:27:46 +0100 riot-police-clash-with-protesters-in-venice-lagoon-showdown The head of Italy's national rail operator said on Thursday the Ferrovia dello Stato's privatization would not necessarily take place in 2016, as previously announced, but when the company is ready. https://www.thelocal.it/20151204/italy-rail-privatization-may-be-pushed-back Fri, 04 Dec 2015 09:42:16 +0100 italy-rail-privatization-may-be-pushed-back Passengers will face transport misery this weekend as rail workers across Italy strike over changes to working hours, an increase in the retirement age and potential privatization. https://www.thelocal.it/20151019/italy-unions-call-national-train-strike Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:25:33 +0200 italy-unions-call-national-train-strike Hitachi said on Tuesday it would buy the rail and traffic signal businesses of Italy's Finmeccanica, in a deal that could reach more than $2.0 billion as it looks to take on global rail giants. https://www.thelocal.it/20150224/finmeccanica-to-sell-rail-firm-to-japan-for-21bn-hitachi Tue, 24 Feb 2015 09:30:00 +0100 finmeccanica-to-sell-rail-firm-to-japan-for-21bn-hitachi Italy on Wednesday took the first concrete step towards privatizing its railway system and listing it on the stock exchange as part of efforts to cut the country's gargantuan public debt. https://www.thelocal.it/20141120/italy-takes-first-step-to-shore-up-cash Thu, 20 Nov 2014 09:17:00 +0100 italy-takes-first-step-to-shore-up-cash Protesters seeking to block a high-speed rail link between France and Italy that they call a waste of public money clashed with police on Wednesday in Rome, where the two countries' leaders were meeting. https://www.thelocal.it/20131121/italian-police-clash-with-anti-train-protesters Thu, 21 Nov 2013 09:09:00 +0100 italian-police-clash-with-anti-train-protesters A six-metre-wide drill roared to life on Tuesday in Chiomonte in northeast Italy and began boring a reconnaissance tunnel for a controversial fast train from Lyon, France to Turin, Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20131113/drilling-starts-for-high-speed-alpine-rail-line Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:23:00 +0100 drilling-starts-for-high-speed-alpine-rail-line A young Sicilian man is among the 80 who died in a high-speed train crash in north-western Spain on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20130726/sicilian-man-dies-in-spanish-rail-crash Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:16:00 +0200 sicilian-man-dies-in-spanish-rail-crash