Rail transport in Italy high-speed train was the Italian ETR 200, which in July 1939 went from Milan to Florence at , with a top speed of . With this service, the railway was able to compete with the upcoming airplanes. The Second World War stopped these services. After the Second World War, Italy started to repair the damaged railways, and built nearly of new tracks. Nowadays the rail tracks and infrastructure are managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI), while the train and the passenger section is managed mostly by Trenitalia. Both are Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) subsidiaries, once the only train operator in
Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 In what would be the first of many examples under the 12 points system of Italian juries voting in a manner very much out of step with the rest of Europe, they awarded only 1 point to the winning song from the Netherlands and only 3 to the United Kingdom, while giving the only 12 of the night to Switzerland, who finished 6th. Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 Italy was represented by duo Wess and Dori Ghezzi, with the song '"Era", at the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place on 22 March in Stockholm. As usual, broadcaster