Chris Ogilvie

Pietrelcina - such a regular I’m invited to the staff pics, and the 3hr pranzo at a restaurant. But seems to be a roster error, 2 train drivers want a lift back to the depot with me! 🚗

🚰 Using a public toilet in Italy is normally a risky endeavour. But top marks to this bar in Arezzo, Tuscany. A snazzy repurposed beer tap is all you need!

🚃🚃 Novel catering trolley on the 1015 Intercity Rome to Arezzo. Bit of inspiration from Indian Railways perhaps but does the job. 🍫🥤☕️

“Highly unusual”

Trump says US will 'take care of Cuba' on its way back from Iran reut.rs/3UKk6DN

Company without any trains and no ability to get any by 2030 thinks they will run trains in 2030 #CrossBorderRail 🐂💩 www.treinreiziger.nl/heurotrain-ver…

🚅 🇮🇹 Compared to what I'm used to the speed is quite staggering... Not the train, the WiFi. 160Mbs on a 300kmh Italo train. The only trains with Starlink internet. 📡 🛰️

What do you need to (re-)open a UK station for #CrossChannelRail trains? 1️⃣ A terminal (£) 2️⃣ Staff for it (more £) 3️⃣ Enough passengers 4️⃣ An operator who’ll stop there 5️⃣ Relieve pressure on St Pancras That means 1 station, not 2 or 3. And that means Ashford Explained 👇 jonworth.eu/how-to-re-open…

⛽️ 🚌 Naples City Transport EAV has run out of diesel. Bus services suspended. Truckers blocked Campania autostrada to protest about diesel prices leaving EAV without fuel and shops without food. Most trains are electric and unaffected, but Caserta-Piedimonte may close.

🇮🇹🚋🚋🇦🇹 2 classic Italian 776 ALn/DMUs sold to Austria's Kaltenleutgebner Bahn, which connects Vienna Liesing station with Kaltenleutgeben. The line, no longer used by ÖBB has been kept in good condition and now historic trains will return. @tobiaswatzl.bsky.social - good luck!!

Couple of bits from me last night on Andrew Marr's show and then on my own that are hopefully worth your time. First, why Trump's slowing of weapons procurement for Ukraine is also sabotaging us. And then some thoughts about...Marco Rubio. 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trln...

🚄🇮🇹 Italy's N-S high speed/capacity railway runs 1,000km Turin-Salerno, Naples. 🚇🏗️🚧 Work underway on another 450km €22Bn line south to Reggio Calabria to connect to the road/rail bridge across Messina Strait & Sicily's high speed line to Catania & Palermo....

First part of my chat with @mrjamesob.bsky.social earlier today on @lbc.co.uk: 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjvu...

That a metro system would be built in a northern UK city involving underground tunnels and stations is supposedly an impossible, unrealistic idea from an unserious mind. Meanwhile, Newcastle with 13km of bored tunnels and 9 underground stations built 13 years after first plans:

Travelling 350 miles north from Sept-Iles, Québec, to the middle of nowhere - or to be precise: Schefferville, a mining town with a population of 250 - along one of the most remote railway lines in the world, today.

🇪🇸🚅 A forensic examination of the site, dismantle OHL, cranes to remove the loco intact, people in white coats, 2 week line closure…. ….not in Spain! The power car of the AVE on fire on Monday has been cut up on site today! Line speed tomorrow?!

Musk promised voters in the 2024 presidential election a chance to randomly win $1 million. The winners were predetermined.

🚇 Calais, Channel Tunnel - 19 injured, including 5 in absolute emergency condition, after a collision between a bus and a freight train at the loading platform of the Channel Tunnel in Calais (Prefecture / La Voix du Nord).

🚧👷🦺🚜 Another mega structure for Italy announced. 8.4km of twin bore undersea road tunnel in Genoa. Just £670m equiv. Wouldn’t get the public enquiry for that in UK.

🇪🇸 Renfe plans to dismantle the cab of the burned AVE train then drag the chassis and clear the track in Ricla. The works will be carried out at dawn & involve cutting the body at the point where it stopped. Then removing the remaining part of the convoy to a nearby farm.

#OnThisDay 174 years ago King's Cross station was opened by the Great Northern Railway. The facade of Lewis Cubitt's magnificent pair of trainsheds was gradually hidden over the years before being unmasked in 2012. In 2019 an IC125 and Class 91 DVT flank an arriving Azuma.

The GBR 'Rolling Stock & Infrastructure Strategy' PDF is out. Let's do a wordcount; 'Battery': 19 'Discontinuous electrification': 3 'Vegetable oil': 1 🚉 The future is 🔋🪫 🌽 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aba4b...

The GBR 'Rolling Stock & Infrastructure Strategy' PDF is out. Lests do a wordcount; Battery: 19 Discontinuous electrification: 3 Vegetable oil: 1 🚉 The future is 🔋🪫 🌽 assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6aba4b...

Pre-covid passenger numbers but higher cost - what changed?? Sunday Times: "Rail fares must rise to avoid taxpayers spending billions more. With a £4bn-a-year gap between train operators' costs and revenues, there can't be another freeze in fares." 🆓🔽 www.thetimes.com/article/78f0...

Italy's only 'every weekend' heritage railway suffers serious incident today. The heritage train on the 50km Sulmona-Roccarasso line collided with a cradle of a road crane working on a bridge. Injuries to bridge workers. 400 passengers trapped for many hours.

🚅 🇮🇹 Another 50km of high speed, high capacity railway joins Europe’s rail network. Last night the first test train ran on the new Verona-Vicenza line, part of the 400km Turin/Milan-Venice high speed railway.

Telegraph: 🌍 The world’s weirdest trains… 🇦🇷Tren Solar de la Quebrada 🇨🇱Gondola Carril Ferrobus 🇯🇵DMV Road-Rail hybrid POKÉMON with YOU Train 🇩🇪Wuppertaler 🇨🇳Optics Valley Photon (Skyrail) 🇨🇭Schwyz-Stoos funicular 🇬🇶Devil’s Nose 🇰🇭Bamboo Train 🇦🇺The Gulflander www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/2abf340...

Look what European Sleeper's website can do now! 🥳👇 Mind you, they're being even more cautious with the Eurostar connection than I'd be...

Very thoughtful review of my book, THE CLAPHAM TRAIN ACCIDENT, from a rail industry colleague on LinkedIn this evening. @penandswordbooks.bsky.social lnkd.in/p/eg9hma9p

Welcome to Trainsatlantic. In Episode 7, intrepid podcasters @donoteat.bsky.social and @garethdennis.uk traverse Italy, get cross as Trump declares war on Finland, and consider one of the greatest railroad ruses of all time: the Bayside Canadian Railway.

Trenitalia’s 1993 Pendlino ETR460 have finally retired. Their place on the Rome-Florence-Genoa route today taken by ETR700, once Dutch Fyra train. Their first visit to the capital. The 250kmh trains will be suited with run on the 250kmh max ‘Direttissima’ line Rome-Florence.

Mine earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk 📺: youtu.be/7eltBhn7WV4?...

🇳🇱 🚉 🇩🇪 Reopened cross border railway… “After 11 years travel by train from Groningen, Netherlands to Leer, Germany, is possible. A cargo ship crashed into the Friesenbrücke in 2015 the rail bridge over the Ems on the German side of the border.” @jonworth.eu www.dutchnews.nl/2026/10/inte...

@realjakebroe.bsky.social the Times: On the drone hunt for Putin’s Crimea convoys with ‘Magyar’s Birds’ 🆓⬇️ www.thetimes.com/article/7dd5...

🚅 First booking on Italy’s open access high speed train Italo for a while. 💺 They’ve gone full Ryanair with variable price seat reservations. Single seats are more than sharing. A table for 4 will cost your group €16!

💺😳🪳🤢🪳😨🪳 Telegraph: “Bedbugs infest commuter trains. Services cancelled and carriages sealed as drivers refuse to get in cabs after insect sightings…” 🆓⏬️ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...

💺😳🪳🤢🪳😨🪳 Telegraph: “Bedbugs infest commuter trains. Services cancelled and carriages sealed as drivers refuse to get in cabs after insect sightings…” 🆓⏬️ www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...

🇮🇹 Railtour unico! 🚋🚋🚋🚋 The last 1970s EMU/ALe 801, unrefurb but graffiti removed! UK equiv: 4-CIG in NSE livery last run 2010! Not FS, Trasporto Ferroviario Toscano, 1939 Gronk at Bibbiena. Sun 25 Oct Arezzo-Stia,100km, €40 ℹ️: www.hrail.it