Breda ETR 200 - World's fastest electric train, 203 km/h (126 mph) in 1939

Published: 01 May 2021
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Thanks to the website Märklinfan Club Italia for some great photos, many thanks also to Horst Lüdicke, Kyösti Isosaari, Claudio Pedrazzini, Arbalete, kanived, ale_antq06, Circumlibris.
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Thanks also to the Italian state railways, as well as public archives and private material, without these premises the composition of this video (without any profit for me), would have been impossible.
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July 20th, 1939 - The Breda ETR 200 made the world speed record for an electric trainset at 203 km/h between Milan and Bologna (Italy).

Il record mondiale di velocità dell'ETR.212 compie ottant'anni. Il 20 luglio 1939, infatti, l'Elettrotreno italiano ETR.212 ha fatto segnare, con 203 chilometri orari, il record mondiale di velocità ferroviaria. La massima velocità, per l'epoca, è stata raggiunta fra Fidenza e Piacenza nel viaggio da Firenze a Milano compiuto in un'ora e 55 minuti, con una velocità media di 164 chilometri orari.

The ETR 200 (Italian: ElettroTreno 200) is an Italian electric multiple unit (EMU) introduced in 1936.
In the 1930s, the Italian state railways, Ferrovie dello Stato, electrified the main line Milan-Bologna-Florence-Rome-Naples and needed a fast train to use on it and on other newly electrified ones. The project was started in 1934, using new technologies for steel and aerodynamics. The innovative nose of the train was developed after studies in the wind tunnel at the Politecnico di Torino engineering university. The first example was built by Società Italiana Ernesto Breda, (now AnsaldoBreda), in 1936, with three cars on four bogies, two of which had a single T 62-R-100 motor while the others were provided with two similar motors each.
The train had been designed for speeds up to 175 km/h, but the first pantographs caused problems over 130 km/h. The ETR 200 entered service in 1937 on the Bologna-Rome-Naples line.
They were considered the most comfortable and fast trains in Europe, and Benito Mussolini had one sent to the Universal Exposition in New York of 1939.

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