shredder1
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Italy (Day 6). Thursday 10th October 2019.
I was out to Italy for a week, using a 5-day Italian Interrail ticket and also intending to explore Milan`s rail and tram network.
Genova, Ventimiglia and La Spezia.
I was on another early start, (I never seem to get much sleep on holidays), not too early though, it was the 06.25 from Milan to Genova arriving at 08.21 and then changing for the 09.11 to Ventimiglia on the French border and arriving at 12.05.
This was my second visit to Ventimiglia, the last time being in the 1990`s from France, when I`d taken a train from Marseilles along the French Rivera via Nice and Monte Carlo, Monaco, so it was nice to revisit and join the lines up as it were.
I returned as far as Savona to try and get around the locomotive depot and I did in a fashion. I went the official way in with my little note in Italian, but no one was around to give me permission, so I took what pictures I could from the office and then went around the back from a back road, to photograph two old Italian twin body locos E565 articulated. This involved climbing an 8-foot wall and holding on to a rusty metal fence at the top of the wall and edging myself along the top with just 6 inch of wall under my feet for a few hundred feet, and manoeuvring my camera to take a few one handed photographs once I'd arrived at the desired position. The whole operation took me around 45 minutes and a lot of sweat as its red hot here, I also had my 44-litre rucksack on my back. I really can’t believe I'm still doing stuff like this at 68 years of age.
My next move was a train along the coast to La Spezia, via Genova, arriving just as the last light of the day was leaving the sky, I changed here for a very old electric unit which took me to Saint Stefano Magra and then a direct service back into Milan Central, arriving back at 23.20, so another long but satisfying day and lots of new track.
https://www.facebook.com/nick.melling.104/media_set?set=a.2499899313390906&type=3
I was out to Italy for a week, using a 5-day Italian Interrail ticket and also intending to explore Milan`s rail and tram network.
Genova, Ventimiglia and La Spezia.
I was on another early start, (I never seem to get much sleep on holidays), not too early though, it was the 06.25 from Milan to Genova arriving at 08.21 and then changing for the 09.11 to Ventimiglia on the French border and arriving at 12.05.
This was my second visit to Ventimiglia, the last time being in the 1990`s from France, when I`d taken a train from Marseilles along the French Rivera via Nice and Monte Carlo, Monaco, so it was nice to revisit and join the lines up as it were.
I returned as far as Savona to try and get around the locomotive depot and I did in a fashion. I went the official way in with my little note in Italian, but no one was around to give me permission, so I took what pictures I could from the office and then went around the back from a back road, to photograph two old Italian twin body locos E565 articulated. This involved climbing an 8-foot wall and holding on to a rusty metal fence at the top of the wall and edging myself along the top with just 6 inch of wall under my feet for a few hundred feet, and manoeuvring my camera to take a few one handed photographs once I'd arrived at the desired position. The whole operation took me around 45 minutes and a lot of sweat as its red hot here, I also had my 44-litre rucksack on my back. I really can’t believe I'm still doing stuff like this at 68 years of age.
My next move was a train along the coast to La Spezia, via Genova, arriving just as the last light of the day was leaving the sky, I changed here for a very old electric unit which took me to Saint Stefano Magra and then a direct service back into Milan Central, arriving back at 23.20, so another long but satisfying day and lots of new track.
https://www.facebook.com/nick.melling.104/media_set?set=a.2499899313390906&type=3