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One time rail- & Yorkshire-man. Economic migrant 🇮🇹. #FondazioneFS season ticket holder. EV MG4. 🚅✈️📻⛷🥃📷🏳️‍🌈 
Dec 15, 2023 13 tweets 8 min read
🇮🇹 Italy’s inaugural Treni Turistici Italiani train has left Roma #FSTTI 🔵⚪️

Quite astonishing to be on a restored classic overnight train with dining car, bar, sleeper carriages on a 600km trip to the Dolomite alps ⛷️. 🧵 ⬇️


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Everything you could possibly want in one amazing train!

• Bar - open all night
• Dining car, restaurant quality food & wine
• Sleeper & couchette


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Jul 24, 2023 13 tweets 9 min read
🇮🇹 Italy’s railway excelled itself, I’m on the most incredible train from Rome to Naples😍
Launch of Treni Turistici Italiani, a new TOC aimed at tourists. #FSTTI
• Dining car
• Cycle van
• Press car
• Couchette & sleeper cars
• Bar car
• Trans Europ Express cars
1/..🧵⬇️

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Now that’s what I call a @_DiningCar.
There’s a beautiful 1960s Trans Europ Ecpress dining carriage, complete with kitchen car & bar.
The quality of the refurbishment is superb, like new.
It will be incredible to enjoy a meal here. It’s not clear what they plan for the train!

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