pendolino (from italian "pendolo" "pendulum", and "-ino," a diminutive suffix) is an italian family of tilting trains used in italy, spain, poland, portugal, slovenia, finland, russian federation, the czech republic, the united kingdom, slovakia, switzerland and china. based on the design of the italian etr 401 and the british advanced passenger train, it was further developed and manufactured by fiat ferroviaria, which was taken over by alstom in 2000.