(692) Cab Ride Bologna - Florence (Bologna–Florence Railway - Italy) train driver’s view in 4K - YouTube

In this video you can enjoy the cab ride - train driver’s view from Bologna to Florence along the Bologna–Florence Railway in 4K/60 frames per second. The Bologna–Florence railway is one of the major links in the Italian rail network, connecting the railways of the Po Valley with the railways of Tuscany and central Italy under the Apennines. It is also known as the Bologna–Florence direttissima—“direttissima“ is Italian for “most direct“. It was Italy’s greatest engineering achievement in the first half of the twentieth century. When it opened in 1934 it significantly shortened the old winding Porrettana line over the Apennines via Pistoia, and was made possible by the km-long Apennine Base Tunnel. The new Bologna–Florence high-speed railway was opened on 5 December 2009; it includes 73.8 km of tunnels in its 78.5 km length. The Apennine Tunnel was the second longest in the world, only 1300 meters less than the Simplon and it is still in the top 20 in the world