There is something about a train ride. The romance of departure, the mystery of the passengers, the architecture of the stations and the hypnotic motion make me book a ticket to go somewhere, anywhere, at least once a month. Maybe it’s that I’ve watched too many movies like Harry Potter, Some Like It Hot, Before Sunrise and even Murder on the Orient Express, but I love rail travel – high speed, regional, vintage.
All aboard, and I’m on it.
That’s why I find myself standing at Track One at Stazione di Siena, Siena’s train station on a cold, rainy November evening, watching steam waft from a vintage engine.
Vintage trains have been travelling Italy’s retired railways and underused, secondary tracks for years. It wasn’t until recently that Fondazione FS, Italy’s national railway company, launched Treni
