Fondazione FS Italiane

ITALIAN HERITAGE

FONDAZIONE FS ITALIANE ESTABLISHED IN 2013, AIMS TO PRESERVE AND MAKE THE MOST OF THE HISTORICAL CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE HISTORIC TRAINS, FROM DOCUMENTARY MATERIAL (BOOKS, DOCUMENTS AND MAPS, AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS) WHICH ARE EVIDENCE OF THE HISTORY OF THE RAILWAY SECTOR AND ITALIAN SOCIETY SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 1900.

* 20 steam engines * 50 electric and diesel engines * 13 electric and diesel buses * 110 carriages and special vehicles * 12 wagons and luggage wagons - 18 rain carriages * 1 fast electric train * ETR 252 Arlecchino

* 55 rolling stock on show * 39 to-scale plastic station models * 1 library with roughly 2,000 volumes * 1 plastic Trecentotreni model (18x2 m) * 1 plastic model of the Tirano-Saint

Moritz railway (56 m) * 1 plastic model of the Battipaglia station (4x1.8 m) * 1 plastic model of “De Marchi” (4.5x1.5 m) * 60,000 historic volumes and periodicals * 2,000 blueprints and profiles

* 12,000 plans and blueprints of the network and the station * 7,000 architectural drawings of stations and railway buildings * 7,000 rolls of technical drawings of historic engines and rolling stock * 10,000 photographs of trains, traction vehicles, carriages and freight

* 500,000 black and white and colour film and digital photographs * 3,500 video cassettes * 3,000 films

126) The following railway lines reopened for tourism as part of the “Timeless rails” project, have been selected for inclusion in a genuine “moving museum”: (“Ferrovia della Valsesia”, “Ferrovia del Tanaro”, “Ferrovia del Lago”, “Ferrovia della Val d’Orcia”, “Transiberiana d’Italia”, “Ferrovia dell’Irpinia”, “Ferrovia dei Templi”, “Ferrovia del Sannio”, “Ferrovia Pedemontana” and “Ferrovia del Monferrato”)

Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and Trenitalia are the patrons of Fondazione FS. Its main activities include:

* organising trips on historic trains126; * promoting railway tourism; * maintaining and rolling out historic vehicles; * managing the Museum of Pietrarsa; * promoting and organising events, shows and exhibitions; * renovating historical railway infrastructure to open to the public as museum hubs and historical archives: * Campo Marzio station in Trieste * former interlocking control building at Roma Termini

* renovating historical railway infrastructure as workshops for redeveloping/storing historic trains: * Milan, Pistoia and La Spezia historic train depots * Bologna Centrale hub * Roma Termini depot

* partnering with FAI to open prized railway infrastructure to the public: * Firenze SMN terminus and interlocking control building

* redeveloping historic lines to open to the public: * opening panoramic views to make the most of the landscape * redeveloping stations to create tourist hubs The main social media channel used by Fondazione FS is Facebook which it uses to boost its corporate identity. Thanks to strategic events held on social media, the Fondazione’s Facebook page has reached over 177,420 followers (+1.98% on 2020), garnering more than 12 million accounts during the year, thanks to content that generated interactions from over 3 million users (+11.7% on 2020).

The Fondazione’s official Instagram profile also recorded excellent results, overtaking the threshold of 2,000 followers and reaching the current number of 22,439 (+26.7% on 2020). The Fondazione reached an average of 7,912 Instagram users from a total of 3,117,850 accounts, with an interaction rate of 4.94%. The Fondazione revamped its Pinterest page on 30 November 2020 and registered 101,120 users in 2021 along with 4,650 users involved and over 9,500 interactions on the content promoted by the channel. Fondazione FS launched its official LinkedIn page on 5 April 2021. With over 1,400 followers, this channel is already widely used by the Group to reach new profiles, companies specialised in the tourism industry and local bodies rooted in the local areas.

With the support of the Group’s social media team, the Fondazione set up an official Tik Tok page in summer 2021, which is now a verified account. The hope is to reach a new younger segment of the public. The official Fondazione FS YouTube channel of high-quality videos grew exponentially in 2021. It reached a record 356,149 views during the year with over 16,489 total viewing hours, over 4.750.00 impressions and a click rate of 4.5%. It also reached the important threshold of 4,000 subscribers.

NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM OF PIETRARSA

* 106,649 visitors * 971 historic train visitors * 27 major events * €625,500 in revenue

JOURNEYS ON HISTORIC TRAINS

* 500 individual journeys with historic trains for a total of 50,000 passengers * 150 journeys with historic

“Timeless rails*” trains for a total of 31,000 passengers * 43,000 train-km * €2,600,000 in revenue

*railway lines, between nature and art, dedicated to historic-tourist trains, outside the main rail hubs and lines with intense traffic

Marketing activities in 2021 included promoting the Fondazione’s online shop, which recorded 754,108 views. Finally, the FS Fondazione newsletter has over 18,000 subscribers. Fondazione FS invests its revenue (mainly from hiring out historic trains, property leases and the sale of tickets to the museum in Pietrarsa) in creating social and cultural value for the country and the areas in which it operates. Specifically, maintenance and rollout of historic trains, management and museum conservation of its assets (rolling stock, audio/visual material and designs) help preserve and highlight the country’s historical, social and cultural heritage.

TRAVELLING IN GREAT COMFORT

Restoration of a Gran Confort type 1985 train was wrapped up in 2021 with the final inspections. This was the first of a group of eight vehicles assigned to Fondazione FS Italiane. A huge part of railway history, this type of train is getting back on the tracks for the upcoming tourist season as part of the historical train service.

Designed in the late sixties by Fiat Ferroviaria in Turin for national and international long haul journeys, the Gran Confort trains were immediately popular among passengers. They were designed using innovative technical solutions to offer the utmost comfort even at high speeds. The floating floor, double-glazed windows, air conditioning and tannoy system kept these trains in circulation for over 40 years. Their story began with the summer timetable of 1972 when the first available units were used as Trans Europ Express (TEE) fast international trains during the XX Olympics Games in Munich. They were then deployed in the national Gran Confort train services the following year. The two versions could be easily told apart by their colours: the international trains kept the TEE colours of red, beige and grey, while the national trains were painted slate grey with an ivory band between two 10-cm red lines running above and below the windows. Technically, the difference lay in the fact that the TEE service trains were fitted with converters in the luggage wagon to remedy the different electric current on the European network.380 Gran Confort trains were built between 1970 and 1988, including compartment carriages, lounges, restaurant cars and luggage compartments. The arrival of the Eurostar trains in the mid-90s marked their decline on routine services. Some were used for special services, such as the summer Palinuro Express in the early 2000s or the electoral trains in spring 1999 and winter 2001 when the candidates Romano Prodi and Francesco Rutelli travelled Italy by train. Now, thanks to the aesthetic and functional renovation work by Fondazione FS Italiane and Trenitalia, a number of Gran Confort trains will be deployed once again in historical trains to offer special tourist services, ensuring an excellent standard of safety and perfect travel comfort without forgetting the original colours.

AN ESTIMATE OF THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IMPACTS127 GENERATED BY THE FOUNDATION’S ACTIVITIES IS SHOWN BELOW:

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM MEMBERS1

94.1 MILLION EURO

VALUE OF ASSETS3

10.6 MILLION EURO

REVENUE FROM OTHER ACTIVITIES2

23 MILLION EURO

VALUE FOR LOCAL COMMUNITIES4

44.5 MILLION EURO

Passengers on the historic trains contribute to the development of the areas and districts (purchasing local products and artisanal goods) and to the development of the historical and cultural heritage of the trains themselves.

NOTES 1: Contributions from members refer to donations made by founding members during the 2014-2021 period (2021 data are estimated) for grants related to income (to run the Fondazione) and assets (to fund the Fondazione’s investments in protection and maintenance projects and to increase property, plant and equipment and intangible assets). 2: Revenue from other activities includes: ticket sales for the Museum of Pietrarsa, hiring out historic trains and other commercial revenue during the 2014-2021 period (2021 data are estimated). 3: The estimated value of the Fondazione’s historical, social and cultural heritage was based on the appraisal performed by an external consultant to value assets transferred to the Fondazione when it was set up. This estimate prudently did not consider investments in improvements, maintenance and the rolling out of assets. If these investments were included, the historical, social and cultural heritage would amount to approximately €15.5 million. 4: Passengers on the historic trains contribute to the development of the areas and districts (purchasing local products and artisanal goods) and to the development of the historical and cultural heritage of the trains themselves. The estimated value created for local communities and areas was based on research carried out in 2013 by the government organisation “All Party Parliamentary Group on Heritage Railways” with the title of “The Social and Economic Value of Heritage Railways”. This research estimated that every pound earned through ticket sales generates £2.7 for local communities due to the purchasing of local products, lunch/dinner, museums in the areas, etc.. This coefficient was reconfigured on the basis of the relationships between total consumption in Great Britain and total consumption in Italy in 2017 (source: Eurostat). The coefficient was therefore equal to 2.01.

127) The estimate is based on the framework provided by Associazione Civita “From CSR to Corporate Cultural Responsibility: how to enhance the projects of cultural companies”.

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The FS Italiane Group believes that an organisation’s longterm success is built on a strategy that prioritises the protection of natural balances.

FS ITALIANE GROUP FOR THE PLANET

The FS Italiane Group’s greatest contribution to the creation of an environmentally sustainable development model is that it offers increasingly more efficient and sustainable transport services that maximise the benefits of collective mobility.

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HIGHLIGHTS

RAILWAY TRANSPORT IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFICIENT AND LEAST POLLUTING SOLUTIONS WITH THE SMALLEST IMPACT ON THE LAND AND IS, ACCORDINGLY, THE FS ITALIANE GROUP’S CORE TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT.

Indeed, the Group intends to offer multimodal transport services that encourage mobility choices which help reduce road traffic, improve safety, scale down emissions and benefit the quality of life for people while creating fewer risks for the environment.

In this regard, the ongoing improvement of environmental performance plays a key role that impacts the quality of services offered. Thanks to an iterative process comprised of actions, monitoring and assessment, the Parent guides and coordinates the environmental strategies that the companies then translate into independent paths for improving performance, maximising the environmental advantages of their own transport system and particularly focusing on rational use of resources, cutting emissions of greenhouse gases and other polluting substances and generally reducing the carbon footprint of all business segments.

ENERGY AND EMISSIONS

WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED

Rated B by the Carbon Disclosure Project on climate change

CO₂ emission performance targets included again in the Group’s remuneration policy

Inaugurated a hydrogen fuelling station in Groningen and introduced new hydrogen buses with fuel cells into the vehicle fleet used for public transport in the Netherlands

Saved approximately 30,000 tCO₂ compared to 2020 on railway traction consumption following a partial revival of traffic WHAT WE AIM TO DO

Consolidate the Group’s environmental rating

Define medium-term targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Continue to develop hydrogen technology for both road and rail transport

Develop railway network electrification projects and continue introducing vehicles with a lower environmental impact

RESPONSIBLE PURCHASES

WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED

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Called for tenders for a “service aimed at developing and assisting the application of tools to assess and check the sustainability profile of financial operators and suppliers of Group companies”

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Published guidelines for sustainable procurement management with a view to standardising sustainability principles and drive their integration into purchasing procedures and management WHAT WE AIM TO DO

Continue working to improve the supply chain’s sustainability performance while reducing environmental and social risks

SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE

WHAT WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED

In 2021, based on the “Guidelines of the NRRP and supplementary national investment plan” the Group drafted sustainability studies and reports related to the works planned under the NRRP in order to provide a clear overview of the potential of the infrastructure works to generate value for the community. Continue specific actions on structuring a stakeholder engagement process and define a content strategy to create a broad support network throughout the regions touched by infrastructure projects with the aid of the Sentiment Analysis platform developed by Italferr.

WHAT WE AIM TO DO