Is there a new train from Rome to Naples that gets there in about an hour? How do I find it?

That's the AV train on www.trenitalia.com

It actually takes a little more than an hour. It could be as short as an hour and ten minutes or an hour and twenty minutes. BUT it is really nice, complementary water and coffee.

By chance, the Thomas Cook European Timetable this month carries a survey of fastest trains. It shows the AVE in Spain. In Italy it shows the Eurostar Italia, which takes 75 to 87 minutes for the 214 kilometers from Rome to Naples. Such trains leave Rome Termini at 0645, 0725, and then two trains an hour until 1845 and hourly until 2145. The reference library of a city near you may have the book, and the exchange window of any Thomas Cook office sells it.

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Mikej48, yes there is a new train that does the Rome-Naples / Naples-Rome trip, the journey will take over one hour and you will find it on the Trenitalia site. I have booked tickets on the train just late last week (lst sept.) and at that time there was a special price of "Two for one" (duoperuno ??).My two first class tickets only cost Euro 39.00 and I am on the train that leaves Naples at 12:10 and arrives in Rome at 13:37. Looking forward to the experience.

I looked at the website but cannot see if you can book the duoperonu as a round trip. Did I miss something?

I believe it's a one way special so you will have to book the trips separately.

It's for 2 people for one price.

The new train is called Eurostar AV (Alta Velocidad??) and is the fourth generation i believe of the ever getting faster and better Eurostar fleet of trains. (Eurostar trademarked i believe by Fiat, the train's maker, for their ETR Italian trains and subsequently licensed to the London-Paris/Brussels Eurostar trains, which in fact are modified TGV train sets.

The ES AV train was first put into service on the Milan-Turin new high speed line for the Winter Olympics. The only other ES AV line i believe is the newly opened Rome-Naples high-speed line.

Hi Mike,

There is no advantage to booking a RT.

Buy 2 one-way trips.