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Part of any good Italian railway Bingo card: “Your train is leaving from binario 1 tronco.” (Labelled here in Chivasso as 1A but only on this one display.)
Could have staid home, really.
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Could have staid home, really.
Engineering works between Valenza and Alessandria caused the train from Pavia to come in 17 minutes late. They turned it around in five minutes and we are off again with just 3 minutes delay. Might even make my 11 minute connection in Pavia.
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Engineering works between Valenza and Alessandria caused the train from Pavia to come in 17 minutes late. They turned it around in five minutes and we are off again with just 3 minutes delay. Might even make my 11 minute connection in Pavia.
First stop in Valmadonna and we are back on time. Someone really needs to tip off the Germans about this padding thing they have going on here.
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First stop in Valmadonna and we are back on time. Someone really needs to tip off the Germans about this padding thing they have going on here.
I should probably explain: Timetable padding is a technique where you add a few extra minutes into the timetable as a backup when things aren’t going quite as planned. It used to be that everything was always late in Italy but by realising that trains just pick up delays around busy stations for no obvious reason and countering by adding some of this padding into the timetable, trains have become a lot more reliable.
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I should probably explain: Timetable padding is a technique where you add a few extra minutes into the timetable as a backup when things aren’t going quite as planned. It used to be that everything was always late in Italy but by realising that trains just pick up delays around busy stations for no obvious reason and countering by adding some of this padding into the timetable, trains have become a lot more reliable.
I realise I probably jinxed my connection in Pavia now.
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I realise I probably jinxed my connection in Pavia now.
Seven minutes delay out of Sannazzaro because the oncoming train was late.
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Seven minutes delay out of Sannazzaro because the oncoming train was late.
Phew. Made the connection. Bit of a thriller, though. Lots of slow zones and dispatchers taking their time.
Another 1 tronco, too.
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Phew. Made the connection. Bit of a thriller, though. Lots of slow zones and dispatchers taking their time.
Another 1 tronco, too.
What on Earth I am doing, you ask? Well, this. Once you are in Alessandria, this is kind of the fastest route to Parma if you don’t want to just race to Milan and down again.
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What on Earth I am doing, you ask? Well, this. Once you are in Alessandria, this is kind of the fastest route to Parma if you don’t want to just race to Milan and down again.
The last hour or so will be in the dark. But I feel this is okay given that we are still in the plains.
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The last hour or so will be in the dark. But I feel this is okay given that we are still in the plains.
We’ll be racing (I hope) up the Bologna to Milano main line which I dubbed BOM for the Railway History Map. (The somewhat parallel high speed – or alta velocità – line got the label BAM.)
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We’ll be racing (I hope) up the Bologna to Milano main line which I dubbed BOM for the Railway History Map. (The somewhat parallel high speed – or alta velocità – line got the label BAM.)
PSA: The trains in the Emilia-Romagna region are run by something called Trenitalia TPER. Despite having Trenitalia in the name, their trains are not included in DB Navigator or the Interrail app. This includes the highly convenient two-hourly direct Regionale Veloce between Milano Centrale and Bologna Centrale!
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PSA: The trains in the Emilia-Romagna region are run by something called Trenitalia TPER. Despite having Trenitalia in the name, their trains are not included in DB Navigator or the Interrail app. This includes the highly convenient two-hourly direct Regionale Veloce between Milano Centrale and Bologna Centrale!
Now I have officially arrived in Italy.
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Now I have officially arrived in Italy.
Good morning! Today we’re finally starting the main program of this adventure: crossing the Apennine by going down from Parma to the Tyrrhennian Sea.
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Good morning! Today we’re finally starting the main program of this adventure: crossing the Apennine by going down from Parma to the Tyrrhennian Sea.
The timetable isn’t exactly tourist friendly. This morning gap seems to be an Italian speciality that is going to annoy me for the rest of the trip.
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The timetable isn’t exactly tourist friendly. This morning gap seems to be an Italian speciality that is going to annoy me for the rest of the trip.
#Kurventröt – We’ve almost reached the summit at Borgo Val di Taro. Then a long tunnel and it is downhill from there.
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#Kurventröt – We’ve almost reached the summit at Borgo Val di Taro. Then a long tunnel and it is downhill from there.
Aulla Luigiana, a small interchange station out nowhere. There’s a branch line from here to Lucca, but it currently features an hour of bus replacement and I don’t wanna. Along the coast it is.
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Aulla Luigiana, a small interchange station out nowhere. There’s a branch line from here to Lucca, but it currently features an hour of bus replacement and I don’t wanna. Along the coast it is.
The train from Piazza al Serchio arrives in Aulla at 10:23. The train to La Spezzia leaves 10:10 and the one to Pisa 10:21. Just in case you are wondering why it is running empty.
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The train from Piazza al Serchio arrives in Aulla at 10:23. The train to La Spezzia leaves 10:10 and the one to Pisa 10:21. Just in case you are wondering why it is running empty.
If you thought the Apennine is just glorified hills and stuff, you’d be sorely mistaken.
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If you thought the Apennine is just glorified hills and stuff, you’d be sorely mistaken.
I guess we are in Tuscany now. Everyone on this Viareggio – Lucca train speaks English.
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I guess we are in Tuscany now. Everyone on this Viareggio – Lucca train speaks English.
My 7' transfer worked, so here’s some travel advice. Two cities are worth visiting in Tuscany: Lucca and Siena.
Lucca has an intact medieval city wall which is now a fantastic park surrounding the intact old town. This makes the city feel spacious and relaxed, unlike Florence which keeps freaking me out with its noise and stone and lack of air.
Siena is built on a mountain ridge and so nothing anywhere is level. There are mad streets, tilted piazzas, and fabulous vistas from the city walls.
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@kaia we can easily imagine what kind
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@karafuto oh interesting. Thanks.
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Well... actually the shiny plate armour arrived late in the middle age, close to the end.
Armours must be resistant and light (well... as light as an iron suit can be 😁). They need technical skills and tools that took time to discover and master.
At the beginning they just used thick leather covers, then moved to chain mail and only at the end they could build armours.
EDIT: Sorry... I read again your post and maybe you were saying exactly the same thing. But I'm not 100% sure so I'll leave my post.
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@talksina ecco, il primo episodio è tra noi! ♥️
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Che bella la funziona "segui hashtag".
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@thatgiga magari il piano l'hanno studiato con qualche AI🤣🤣🤣 come mettere a frutto l'ingegno su più livelli
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Per prepararmi alla nutrizionista domani mattina, sto facendo merenda con le pesche sciroppate.
