Along the Railway. Italian Industrial Design in Portugal
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https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2611-0075/21731Keywords:
Railways, Design, Fast Trains, FIAT, "Foguete"Abstract
On the margins and, therefore, little known, is the relationship between Italy and the most performant trains on the Portuguese railway network. One of the most important cases was the advent of Lisbon-Porto-Lisbon line of Fiat Ferroviaria’s self-propelled diesel-hydraulics trains, named in Portugal, “Foguete”, known internally as “CP class 0500”. The travel time between the two cities was 4.30 hours, only surpassed since 1993, - and with the protagonism of another product designed by Fiat Ferroviaria (today Alstom-Italia).
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