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Chris Ogilvie
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One time rail- & Yorkshireman. Economic migrant 🇮🇹. Italian heritage rail traveller 🚂 🚢 Discovering cargo ships are the ultimate travel experience. YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisOgilvie
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · May 25
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! 🚗
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 18h
🇺🇸 “The Pacific Surfliner plies the route between Los Angeles and San Diego.
This spectacular US train hugs the coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, the Pacific Surfliner offers 128 miles of dazzling ocean views and California & costs just £27.” 🆓 ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/9590de7...
This spectacular US rail journey costs just £27
Hugging the coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, the Pacific Surfliner offers 128 miles of dazzling ocean views and California cool
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 23h
Yes. I've been asked for proof of onward travel when entering Scheghen....
It was a very quiet border crossing....
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 1d
An English railway oddesy... Italian train vlogger & influencer Ivan Maggini visits Britain's railways... Oh dear.
After a shaky start it turns out some British train trips are as quick as Italian ones, despite slower trains...
ℹ️: www.instagram.com/ivan.maggini...
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 3d
My recent 18hr, 1,000km, €400 trip Rome-Munich with Treni Turistici Italiani didn’t go as expected.
The normal high class 3 course meal, drinks & breakfast replaced by a hot dog & €8 can lager.
Unfortunately for TTI vlogger @doc7austin.bsky.social recorded the occasion…!
youtu.be/uRRIwg7WVgc?...
Scam or Scenic Journey? The "Oktoberfest Special" Night Train from Rome to Munich
YouTube video by doc7austin’s DreamlinerCentral
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 3d
This is darkly funny

SNCF has such a thicket of confusing websites that crooks were able to create a fake one to dupe customers

Link via @pglux.bsky.social

www.franceinfo.fr/faits-divers...
SNCF : gare aux escroqueries en ligne
Grâce à un faux site presque identique à celui de la SNCF, des escrocs proposent un dédommagement suite aux récentes perturbations, dans le but de soutirer de l'argent à leurs victimes. Une méthode ég...
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 3d
🇫🇷🛌🇩🇪 Sunday Times: "Is this the end of the line for the night train to Paris?

Passengers are railing against the closure of the Nightjet sleeper train service that offers a greener way to travel across Europe" 🆓 ⏬️
www.thetimes.com/article/278a...
Is this the end of the line for the night train to Paris?
Passengers are railing against the closure of the Nightjet service that offers a greener way to travel across Europe
www.thetimes.com
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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 4d
Rome will take all six of the city's tram lines out of circulation from Monday - for two months - replacing them with a free bus service for the duration of major roadworks.
Rome takes trams off streets for two months
Rome's six tram lines to be replaced by free bus service. Rome will take all trams out of circulation from Monday 6 October, replacing them with free shuttle buses until 7 December, as part of major w...
www.wantedinrome.com
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Mac the squirrel :) @macsquirelera.bsky.social · 4d
This is one of the most disgusting and bigoted articles ive ever read. Just a screed about how one mans little ego cant handle seeing people who want to dress somewhat differently while performing their duties.
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 4d
🏳️‍⚧️ Fabulous to see Daily Telegraph getting in a froth over Eurostar’s new uniforms.
But a bigoted article, even by their standards.

“A conductor’s job is to check my ticket not push his gender preference in my face” 🆓 ⬇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/707139d...
A conductor’s job is to check my ticket not push his gender preference in my face
Eurostar’s new outfits defeat the whole point of a uniform, which is to elevate the team over the individual
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 5d
Shocking development in 10 Dec 23 incident when Frecciarossa rolled back 800 metres into a Regional train.
“Cocaine-addicted driver fired: "Many people use drugs; I'm not an isolated case, and the railways know it."
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 6d
Of course it’s not a total strike, they just seem to have introduced a chaotic timetable.
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 6d
🚂🚋🚋 “3 October 1839, the journey of the most revolutionary invention of the modern era begins, THE TRAIN”
- message welcomes visitors to National Rail Museum, Naples

- 3 October 2025, Italy celebrates with a national rail strike!
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 6d
Do they share road space with regular traffic??
The free flowing journey on a dedicated road shows how start stop traffic reduces quality of journey for tram or trolleybus.
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 6d
Ride quality equiv a tram. Smooth dedicated road with no jolting in start-stop traffic.

Must be 100+ capacity. Bendybus type vehicle.
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 6d
🚎 I’m on Metromare - Rimini’s new trolleybus, but not as you know it.
- 10km dedicated road
- €80m
- 17 stops
I’m surprised this concept hasn’t caught on more widely, must be cheaper than a tramway but with dedicated road space.
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 6d
I’ve been waiting years to use this emoji 🚟🚟🚟
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Noel Dolphin @noeldolphin.bsky.social · 6d
For some perspective, 1,680 football pitches is 0.018% of UK protected land. To say that temporary HS2 construction sites are visible from space is desecration is insane. On google maps a dinner plate on a table in my back garden is visible from space.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 7d
🚟 Wuppertal Schwebebahn 🇩🇪
"The unsung German city with the world’s most extraordinary train.

It is 125 years since the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, the oldest suspension railway, first set off.
Today it still fascinates visitors to this Rhineland city" 🆓 ⏬️
www.thetimes.com/article/9c50...
The unsung German city with the world’s most extraordinary train
It is 125 years since the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, the oldest suspension railway, first set off. Today it still fascinates visitors to this Rhineland city
www.thetimes.com
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 7d
"It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts.

Some Nightjet services cut from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis"
www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...
It’s goodnight Vienna as Paris sleeper train to Austria and Berlin hit by cuts
Some Nightjet services suspended from mid-December after French withdrawal amid public budget crisis
www.theguardian.com
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 7d
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🛌 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Caledonian Sleeper will link Scotland with Birmingham from January in the biggest timetable change in 30 years, according to the overnight train's operators.
bbc.com/news/article...
Caledonian Sleeper train to link Scotland with Birmingham
The new service will start in January linking Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William to the West Midlands.
bbc.com
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 8d
Ah, 3 October, birthday of railways in Italy!
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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 8d
A 24-hour national strike is to impact train services across Italy from 21.00 on Thursday until the same time on Friday.
Italy faces national train strike on 2-3 October
Italy faces a national 24-hour rail strike from 21.00 on Thursday 2 October until the same time on Friday 5 October, affecting train services nationwide.
www.wantedinrome.com
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 8d
Pod Hotel comes to London...
"A night in London’s new £30 hotel room.

The Zedwell Capsule Hotel in Piccadilly offers a tiny, unusually affordable space for a night’s sleep in the heart of the capital. Cathy Adams tests it out." ⏬️ 🆓
www.thetimes.com/article/46b3...
My night in London’s new £30 hotel room
The Zedwell Capsule Hotel in Piccadilly offers a tiny, unusually affordable space for a night’s sleep in the heart of the capital. Cathy Adams tests it out
www.thetimes.com
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 9d
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I discovered this amazing combination of railway and architecture in its final week.
What a sight.
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 27d
Final days make you appreciate what you’re going to loose…

…stunning sight of trains under 1762 Aqueduct of Vanvitelli - built in Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for the Royal Palace, Caserta-end this week
📍 maps.app.goo.gl/ZowdFktebSri...
🚁 Drones reveal centuries of human endeavour over the landscape
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 9d
So glad I got there in the final days of operation of the classic line. What a sight. bsky.app/profile/ogil...
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Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk · 27d
Final days make you appreciate what you’re going to loose…

…stunning sight of trains under 1762 Aqueduct of Vanvitelli - built in Kingdom of the Two Sicilies for the Royal Palace, Caserta-end this week
📍 maps.app.goo.gl/ZowdFktebSri...
🚁 Drones reveal centuries of human endeavour over the landscape
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