Train from Salerno to Rome
May 31st, 2013, 01:11 PM
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Train from Salerno to Rome
Hello!
Is there someone familiar with the fast train from Salerno to Rome? If so, can you tell me if it's more desireable to sit on the left side of the train or the right as far as the best sightseeing opportunities? Do you recommend that we choose our seating rather then having the company assign our seats?
Thank you!
Is there someone familiar with the fast train from Salerno to Rome? If so, can you tell me if it's more desireable to sit on the left side of the train or the right as far as the best sightseeing opportunities? Do you recommend that we choose our seating rather then having the company assign our seats?
Thank you!
May 31st, 2013, 01:34 PM
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>>>Do you recommend that we choose our seating rather then having the company assign our seats?<<<
I like to select my own seats as I don't like to be too close to the restrooms or the very ends of the cars. The seats at the ends are more like airplane seats with flip down trays on the back of the seat in front of them. Other areas of the train have tables (denoted by a gray oblong on Trenitalia's seatmap).
You can't really tell which side of the train you will be on as the selection just shows a car, but no direction. We usually pick window seats facing each other with a table in between. Sometimes someone will have the aisle seat next to you, but not always.
I like to select my own seats as I don't like to be too close to the restrooms or the very ends of the cars. The seats at the ends are more like airplane seats with flip down trays on the back of the seat in front of them. Other areas of the train have tables (denoted by a gray oblong on Trenitalia's seatmap).
You can't really tell which side of the train you will be on as the selection just shows a car, but no direction. We usually pick window seats facing each other with a table in between. Sometimes someone will have the aisle seat next to you, but not always.
May 31st, 2013, 03:08 PM
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On your left is the sea on your right is land you will get glimps of the town of Pompeii and its church, Mt. V. etc. To your left you will have some great sea views. And in some cases both sides are basically traveling through someones back yard. Some trains are double deckers which is nicer as you are up higher and see more.
May 31st, 2013, 04:11 PM
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>>>Some trains are double deckers which is nicer as you are up higher and see more.<<<
I'm not aware of any double decker fast trains in Italy. Some regional ones are double(Rome has just put this on the Leonardo Express to add capacity), but the fast train on this route is the Frecciarossa.
http://www.trenitalia.com/cms/v/inde...003f16f90aRCRD
I'm not aware of any double decker fast trains in Italy. Some regional ones are double(Rome has just put this on the Leonardo Express to add capacity), but the fast train on this route is the Frecciarossa.
http://www.trenitalia.com/cms/v/inde...003f16f90aRCRD
Jun 1st, 2013, 07:57 AM
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I have taken a train that is similar to our commuter trains from Salerno to Naples several times in the last few years and there is an upstairs. As far as I know it is not a ES train and it did make a couple of stops along the way but it was also not a milk train.
Jun 1st, 2013, 08:05 AM
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For the views, take one of the IC trains - and try to sit on the left in the direction of travel...
They take longer, but have by far the nicer route... fewer tunnels, almost none of the glass walls between which the Freccias have to run when passing houses, farms etc - plus you'll see the sea (Bay of Gaeta) in and around Formia!
On this rough map, that's the old line, through Latina - with the new Freccia trackway running further inland:
http://www.pbase.com/isolaverde/image/132089028
There's no way that I know of for ensuring which side of the carriage any particular seats would be on although there's perhaps more chance on empty ones in 1st Class (not too expensive on the ICs) - however, for the one of those I've just tried, they say "Seats will be automatically assigned"... so you'd be taking pot luck in any case?
Peter
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They take longer, but have by far the nicer route... fewer tunnels, almost none of the glass walls between which the Freccias have to run when passing houses, farms etc - plus you'll see the sea (Bay of Gaeta) in and around Formia!
On this rough map, that's the old line, through Latina - with the new Freccia trackway running further inland:
http://www.pbase.com/isolaverde/image/132089028
There's no way that I know of for ensuring which side of the carriage any particular seats would be on although there's perhaps more chance on empty ones in 1st Class (not too expensive on the ICs) - however, for the one of those I've just tried, they say "Seats will be automatically assigned"... so you'd be taking pot luck in any case?
Peter
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Jun 1st, 2013, 08:20 AM
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As a PS... with all those tunnels under our many mountains, some of them dating back an awfully long while, don't expect to see any of those twindeck trains in Campania!
But note that the Freccias, and the ICs as well, all seem to do the stretch to Naples in a similar 30 to 35 minutes...
To achieve that they'll almost certainly be using the newer line - which runs around the inland side of Vesuvius... so you'll probably not see the sea, or very much else of any particular interest, on that part of the trip!
There's a wonderful old line, which runs through Vietri sul Mare, Pompei etc - however the trains that use it take some 80 minutes to do the same journey:
http://www.pbase.com/isolaverde/image/132271158
Great fun for sightseeing, but rubbish as a way of getting to Rome?
Peter
But note that the Freccias, and the ICs as well, all seem to do the stretch to Naples in a similar 30 to 35 minutes...
To achieve that they'll almost certainly be using the newer line - which runs around the inland side of Vesuvius... so you'll probably not see the sea, or very much else of any particular interest, on that part of the trip!
There's a wonderful old line, which runs through Vietri sul Mare, Pompei etc - however the trains that use it take some 80 minutes to do the same journey:
http://www.pbase.com/isolaverde/image/132271158
Great fun for sightseeing, but rubbish as a way of getting to Rome?
Peter
