What's up? Don't we have a new schedule for trains for 2004? Website says valid until dec.2003.
I am considering staying in Faenza the night before the race,taking official transport to the start in Florence then taking an early morning train to Florence on Monday to go home.Then taxi? to the airport from the train station.
Downside I miss half a day on Saturday in Florence and half a day on Sunday(not that i want to be on my feet much after the race).
Has anyone been to Faenza? If i stay there i could go to the Ceramics museum,possibly buy a few ceramic items as well.Also I could get to my hotel and crash immediately(race starts saturday at 3pm and goes all night) for a few hours and not have an agenda until getting up early (4am?)Monday
to get the train back to florence.Any other options besides the train to get from Faenza back to Florence?(I might meet someone who will give me a ride but don't want to count on it)RR

Robert, after working fine for the last couple of weeks, the English page of Trenitalia's website once again has the wobbles. Just click on the flag of one of the other languages, and it'll work fine. In the last couple of days (including a minute ago), I successfully did searches on the Italian and French pages.

The website works fine just says schedules are valid through the middle of December 2003 RR

Aaah, now I understand your reservations. Well, if it's any consolation (and it is to me), Bill Thayer says train schedules don't change all that much from year to year:

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I have a set of schedules on my desk, for the year 2000; schedules don't change appreciably, certainly not for the purpose of trip planning.

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If I decide on staying in Faenza friday-Sunday I would be relying on the 5 am train in order to get me to florence in time for my flight.So would need that specific train to be the same RR

I don't know your planned departure date from Faenza, but I put in May 30th for a test, (why not just use the Italian website www.trenitalia.it, it's not that hard), and found departures from Faenza to Florence, changing in Bologna, at 4:36 a.m. and 6:49 a.m., arriving Florence at 6:59 a.m. and 8:45 a.m., respectively. This is for 2004.

Yes,
actually what I noticed is that it is only the English version which is awful and works in a weird way. The Italian version seems to work fine.
The biggest difect is that you cannot get a list of the stations so if you mispell the name, that is it.

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www.tenitalia.it doesn't come up for me, www.trenita.com does. the English seach doesn't work for me, but as Judy says the Italiano option does work fine. Although, I'm not sure how to translate 32,97 EUR. I think of it as 32.97 Euros, is that correct?

Sorry, that's www.trenitalia.com

I think the thing that is bothering Robert is the fact that, in the top lefthand corner of Trenitalia's English screen, it says, "Official Timetable Valid Until 13/12/2003," on the German page it says, "Offizieller Fahrplan Gültig bis 13/12/2003," on the French page it says, "Horaire officiel Valable jusqu'au 13/12/2003," and on the Spanish page it says, "Valable jusqu'au Valido hasta el 13/12/2003." On the Italian page it doesn't say anything along those lines; at least there is nothing that I can see.

If one does a search for a train from, say, Rome to Faenza on a given date in 2004, and one repeats that search in all of the languages available on Trenitalia, one gets the same results. So it seems to me that Trenitalia's online timetable is functioning fine. But apparently Trenitalia's webmaster has not yet updated that "Timetable valid until ......" statement.

Yes, Ciferno, 32,97 in Italian means 32.97 in English. In Italy a comma is used to denote the decimal point, and a period is used to separate hundreds of thousands. So while an American would write $1,000,000.00 an Italian would write $1.000.000,00

"Il nuovo orario Trenitalia, valido
dal 14 dicembre 2003 all'11 dicembre 2004,
prevede alcune novità molto significative"

this is what you find in the Italian version. I imagine it means that it searches in valid timetables.

The New Happy Weeks and Last Minute offers
at Casina di Rosa - Holiday home in Tuscany

I've always HATED the Trenitalia site. I use rail.ch

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E non pur io qui piango ex-bolognese;
anzi n'è questo loco tanto pieno,
che tante lingue non son ora apprese

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Originally posted by Judy in Calgary:
schedules don't change appreciably

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They usually don't, but my Sunday 6.03 pm train from prato to Milano porta Garibaldi disappeard, while a 5.38 pm and a 6.43 pm trains to Milano centrale appeared out of owhere. If I trusted the old schedule I would have missed my train last evening ^_^

Alice Twain
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I don’t want to take what you can’t give / I would rather starve than eat your bread
I would rather run but I can’t walk / Guess I’ll lie alone just like before
                Pearl Jam, Corduroy