Nice to Milan in LUXURY onboard the ESPRESSO RIVIERA

[@vlastimilmaselnik]

Now that's what I would call a proper train. Very nice! I had no idea this existed, putting it on my future ride list! Thanks for the video and thumbs up for TTI for showing you a little bit more.

[@robertjewell6146]

Always nice when the CEO rides his own trains. Amtrak directors, please take note.

[@sanapadsense1999]

Yes and SNCF too.

[@elbestione7010]

He did indeed. He said HELLO and WELCOME on first run even from Milano to Monaco/Nice. And he seems his company will pursue these trains in future

[@jonhigginson4096]

Lovely to see Villefranche! My dad would drive us down to Villefranche in his car from Manchester when I was a kid in the early ‘80s. Happy happy times.

[@linesided]

There's gotta be a great story there!

[@dennisud]

A very Nice Train and amenities, plus having family to travel with is a good thing!

[@johnmehaffey9953]

The things you do for us Thibault first class seating compartment and you gave it up so we can have open view window shots, brilliant post 😊

[@rogertemple7193]

I'm really enjoying seeing the beautiful countryside from the windows of these trains it is totally awesome thank you.☕👋🇮🇹

[@scottyerkes1867]

Excellant review. Luxurious First Class accomodations and dining. Thanks Thibault.😀👍👌

[@sbkr4906]

Excellent Route. Nice Train. I would like to see at least 2 trains per day on this route, even no luxury , but a suitable train comfortable enough for such long journey.

[@JoachimStadler-bx3oy]

Hallo, vielen Dank für das schöne Video. Das war eine sehr schöne Zugfahrt. Liebe Grüße. Joachim.😊

[@aixucruc]

Le service de trenitalia est excellent…. On a tellement à apprendre à la SNCF…! Même niveau entretien ils sont plus fort que nous!

[@SteveLego]

16:03 well yes, but actually no: while yes, there are dead end platforms in Genova Principe, most of them are through platforms. The main reason to swap cabs is because the line from Ventimiglia and Savona is at the same end of the station as the line going up to Turin and Milan. If the Express was at a dead end platform it was probably because it’s the best choice as to not be in the way of through trains and leaving through platforms free for them

[@silvanostagni]

I remember the Italian Trans Europe Express trains very well. Those are the same seats.

[@larocca18]

Thank you for the nice video! I am Italian and I never heard of Treni turistici italiani nor of this line Nice-Milan. Hopefully the beautiful idea will last more than the August test. Strange to leave from Nice at 17 hrs though, to arrive in Milan so late at night. I did not catch well where the Espresso stops in Italy, apart from Genova. It would be nice if you could add the locations the train goes through, I mean the ones we see in the video, as you did for Villefranche sur mer. Thanks for sharing about trains! My grand-dad worked for the Belgian railways, so I believe I inherited some of his passion for travelling by train!

[@Gerrycav]

Excellent video as usual. Most luxurious train trip you have posted in a while. Comment je vous envie!

[@philippenaluna2312]

That was a great trip. Would love to be able to make the trip. I was impressed that you got to 'cab' the locomotive and enjoy part of the trip from the driver's perspective. Merci beacoup, Thibault. Á bientôt, mon ami!!

[@Benjamin0c]

Ça fait plaisir de voir qu’il y a encore des connaisseurs et passionnés à la tête de TTI !

[@CristianoPedro2525]

Incredible landscapes, Delicious Italian's food. Amazing!!!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@SweedyMick]

What a beautiful ride and train! Good job Trenitalia and thanks SimplyRailway for the review! Definitely on my wishlist. Sounds like a perfect way to get to the Cinque Terre from Paris while the tunnel in the Alps is still closed, with a night train from Paris to Nice and then this beautiful train ride.

[@weerwolfproductions]

The Puttgarden train destination in your compartment was for the trainferry to Copenhagen before the Storebelt bridge was built.

[@ich-d1h]

A sign belonging to an Italian car would have been yellow, not white. I assume it was from a DB owned car. The train used to have cars from the Danish, Italian & German Railways plus CIWL & DSG sleeping cars. The train departed Kobenhavn early afternoon, went overnight to Munich and continued to Rome arriving there the next evening. When Eurocity Trains where introduced. EC 84/85 "Michelangelo took it's path between Rome and Munich

[@ompte196]

Italian trains the best. Touch of Italian Elegance is there indeed. French have still much to learn.

[@Malik_Sylvus]

I don't know why this video inspired you such a stupid comment?....Why are you comparing Italy to France??... You forget or you ignore that in train transportation Italy learned a lot from France, let me remind you This train is a regional copy of the French luxury train Orient Express... High speed trains of Italy are a copy of french TGVs, if you are so chauvinistic what would you say of british or American trains then??

[@FuraIIII]

???

[@moneg11]

WHAT ??

[@dodaz2049]

@@FuraIIII Are you jealous?

[@dodaz2049]

@@moneg11 You heard him well, he's right. Italy is the best.

[@dennisrettke]

What a beautiful journey and beautiful train! Shame that it doesn't run all year, but I understand why. Nice to see you enjoyed it with your dad too :)

[@gregoryhageage6362]

The CEO. Nice timing, brah. And another 🤙🏽 video, as well! Thank you.

[@danielconrad399]

Merci Thibault. Great video! Yes, the power window blinds are just like the 'mighty TEE'. In 1974 I took TEE Ligure from Nice to Milano, those heavy quiet comfortable Fiat cars had the same blinds. Are the TTI cars renovated former TEE cars? And nice to meet your dad.

[@giulioz.4928]

Yes I think they renovated the “Grand confort” coaches

[@danielconrad399]

@@giulioz.4928 Grazie Giulioz.

[@EftelingCoasterfreak]

What!? In the luggage car and literally in the locomotive! This is insane! Thanks for showing this to us

[@dominicsimpson6842]

Some of the occasional perks that comes with Thibault’s railway celebrity job. 😅

[@EftelingCoasterfreak]

@@dominicsimpson6842 now im jealous

[@danidandi8107]

At the minute 5:43 che person at the window is Luigi Cantamessa the general of TTI and Fondazione Fs. How many people were on board the train?

[@pietromanenti1998]

Such a fantastic train!! I don't think they've been super successful on an economic level, but they've just started and they'll always be a niche product... if they break even it's already a lot of work for me, but I really hope so because TTI has done a fantastic job offering such a great service and basically a completely new product on the market (without public money, what's more)

[@roderickwho1983]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Oh, and your dad is one cool looking dude - is he a rock star by any chance ? ;-) Chapeau !

[@SeverityOne]

Rome to Puttgarden is a crazy long route. It's over 1400 km as the crow flies. Apparently, it used to go to Kopenhagen. Puttgarden is where the train ferry to Denmark left, and where they're currently building a combined rail/road tunnel. Great video! Italy is next door for us, but we'll have to see what's possible. We (wife and I) have discussed a long (night) train journey before - partly because of channels like yours - and Italy might actually the best option. We'll see.

[@GuidoBatt]

I used to take that train a few times... Back in the '70s sigh... When I was Inter-rail aged. Milan to Copenhagen then Stockholm then further north. I also stole some of those boards, they were hanged in each car to remind you where you were going.

[@GuidoBatt]

It was called Italia-Express IIRC

[@rezaalan3991]

Great trip. It's a great experience you got permission to access the baggage car and even the locomotive.

[@RailandSky]

Passing through Monaco station like that was very cool!

[@michaelbruchas6663]

Thanks!

[@dodaz2049]

Italy and France have the best trains !!! Lovely video, cheers.

[@nicolaj665]

You were really lucky to see the view from the drivers cab. Thank you. I enjoyed the video.

[@janepearson2539]

What a lovely journey...such beautiful scenery! The ride in the engine was an enviable treat. Thank you for your consistently stellar content!💖

[@spark_6710]

Very comfortable looking chairs !! 😍👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇮🇹🚈💕💞

[@custardo]

What an amazing trip that was! excellent!

[@Happymali10]

The photo in your compartment was special by the way, the train on it was basically a cross-europe service from Rome in Italy to Puttgarden on an Island in the far north of Germany (where they used to have a ferry to take trains and people to denmark)

[@HuppeldePupNL]

Excellente vidéo! Merci! Incroyable qu’il n’y ait plus de train régulier direct entre Nice et Milan 😮!

[@MarceloBenoit-trenes]

And sadly also to Marseille and Port Bou!

[@magnificus8581]

What a beautiful trip!

[@anirbandasgupta7535]

I enjoy your videos, as if I am enjoying these railway trips myself, keep up the good work my brother

[@MarcoBranchi-sh7ip]

Vedere l'ing sporgersi dal finestrino per vedere il panorama, testimonia quanta passione abbia in quello che fa!

[@АидаНевская-я2г]

✴️ Grateful for such frames ✨🙏🏻✨ We Love Railway so much 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@gianmarcosironi972]

I think the idea behind TTI is very interesting. Offering quality train travel in TEE style, with a product targeted to fill the gap between regular train travel and exclusive services like the VSOE. The only question is, if there is enough interest for the service to make it profitable. As an Italian living abroad, I like to come back for holydays, and I was in Alassio this summer. I went to the station a couple of times with my son to see the "Riviera" running to Milan, and in both cases it was almost empty. I hope the service will not be cut for not being remunerative, because I would really like to try it out the next year...

[@dcartier1692]

Nice-Firenze nearly 50 years ago - overnight in a compartment with an Italian family (with wonderful kids) that treated me to a perpetual picnic, wine & stories the whole way. Ah, la dolce vita!

[@dodaz2049]

Grazie from Italy, you are always welcome here !!! With love, 🇮🇹

[@rasferrastfarian739]

Wow! what a journey! Great footage as ever, well done! Handy to have "friends in high places!" 🙂

[@andrewg9457]

What a lovely way to travel

[@dominicsimpson6842]

Excellent video from one of the top ambassadors for rail travel. Didn’t know about TTI before this video but will sure be looking out for them in future. One minor nitpick 322 kms is around 200 rather than 122 miles.

[@robertp.wainman4094]

Wow - when did I last see train seats that look as comfortable as those?

[@andreasprasch4243]

Dans quelques semaines, je vais faire le trajet de Milan à St Raphaël. J'ai hâte d'y être. Surtout la partie qui longe les monts Esterell.

[@EsotericDesi]

Beautiful trains... and the entire infrastructure...

[@frankishknight1878]

Note that at the Franco-Italian border, French electric locomotives switch from 25000 volts AC to 3000 volts DC. The catenary type changes to the Italian style. You made the announcement a bit early. The train was still under French catenary. Fabulous video though! 👍

[@michaelhall8586]

What an incredible journey

[@croberts709]

I love the European trains but hate the compartments! We were in one from Munich to Venice and sadly I had a cough, I spent most of the trip out in the hall at the end of the car I was so concerned with giving someone my cold. Give me airline seating anyday!

[@kevinellis8869]

Glad to see you looking after your Dad. Hope the traincrew don't get into trouble for letting you in the cab, perhaps the company will look at it as good publicity.

[@christopdeck3457]

He’s been allowed in the cab of a train in a previous video. I’m sure the company gives special permission for this as they know his videos are widely watched and it will be extra publicity for them. I think that was probably the driver manager that was in the cab too chatting to the driver in the background.

[@ChetNotJet]

i don't know pw if you have done this in previous videos and i have missed it but the captions work really well and make it accessible to more languages, great idea

[@andrewpaul3130]

Goodness me what a splendid dining car..❤

It looks like a fantastic train and I love the route Nice - Milan. I need to do this.

[@Blaze6108]

It's interesting how much mileage Trenitalia is getting out of the same exact Gran Comfort / UIC-Z carriages for so long. These were originally made in the 80s, the actual machines are all over 40 years old by now, but with a never-ending string of revamps and refits they keep being used without looking too dated (except of course for the exterior!). It's a good testament at how long-lived electric transport can be (to be fair, these carriages are passive) compared to combustion vehicles or aircraft that need to endure pressure cycling

[@Backwardlooking]

Thank you.👍🏻🇫🇷✌️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@dodaz2049]

🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹

[@tariklyacoubi8197]

A budget tip for people travelling in Italy : There are 2 offers that you can buy on the site, A 3 day ticket for 30 € A 5 day ticket for 40 € You can ride any regional train ( regionale, regionale veloce) Intercity trains and high speed train not included. If you got a bike you gotta add a fare of 3,50 € I used it in combo with my bike and I visited a lot of places for a really ridiculous price.

[@spark_6710]

What a view !! 😍

[@joemeyers3127]

Beautiful trip. Thank you!

[@johannleuckx1625]

What a splendid dining car! An example for other railway companies.

[@shanewaterman4125]

Is this a replacement or competitor to the SNCF service from Nice to Milan? Always wanted to do that, but all in daylight, when we used to holiday in Gorbio when my boys were junior school age. Pity no caption commentary this time, and no ticket price info during the video as in many of your others?

[@wahjuniastuti8286]

Woow.... Amazing experience.. 👍

[@morgan97475]

Thanks for this.

[@jeff_de_flandre9766]

Superbe train 👍👍

[@rjspain56]

Another enjoyable video. I miss the train diagram. Any chance you will bring it back?

[@sbkr4906]

Maybe there is a market for touristic trains like Japanese do with their special or thematic trains.

[@ltrin1969]

A única coisa que estranhei foi constatar que o trem estava vazio, com poucos passageiros. Belo trem, bela viagem.

13:56 Why can't more trains have proper coffee machines? Also I think the Italians used to have locos compatible with the French DC network, but I guess they don't have them anymore. (or not certified)

[@andrewpaul3130]

The latrines are so clean and new ❤

[@tjittekamminga5170]

bellissimo!

[@ich-d1h]

finally a real train on that line again.

[@VendraCala]

Molto bello 🎉

[@ripplesonroad]

I always love to watch your videos. Very informative and interesting. Can you please share, how you do the map animation?

[@harri2626]

Good heavens. This train goes against the modern trend by having comfortable seats and a real dining car.

[@christianfalke121]

2:50 Do you know why there is an old railway direction plate with Puttgarten as final train station near your seat? I wonder if this piece of Art reminds that there is a retro route. But arrival in Puttgarden makes no sense because it‘s only a ferry railway station in direction to Copenhagen.

[@weerwolfproductions]

Storebelt bridge probably wasn't build back then. Puttgarden ferry terrain is really big but nowadays hardly used. I think it was a very busy hub at one point especially in the haydays of international trains as the main link to Copenhagen. Oh my sleep-drunk brain left out the biggest bit of info. Puttgarden had a train ferry to Denmark's port of Rodby (sorry my keyboard doesn't have the / through the o). And Puttgarden's overgrown and unused rail depot terrain is huge. Lots of sidings.

[@diegopettini6101]

Until the eighties there was a regular service between Rome and Copenhagen. I don't know if it was a direct train or if the ferry was included in the ticket. But this could explain Puttgarden as final destination

[@patricktrakzel9657]

Made the trip with your dad? So cool.

[@theobrattinga500]

Great video.

[@K2YU]

Regarding the use of diesel locomotives under wire: I wouldn't blame just the SNCF, as i think that TTI is also at fault, as they could also have leased a electric locomotive from Akiem for this section (which is the owner of the diesel locomotive used here, they even have Astrides which could be used here) or from any other leasing company. For future seasons, they should also consider to lease a multisystem-locomotive suitable for both countries for the section between Nice and Genova, as Railpool is supposed to recieve suitable Traxx MS3 locomotives in 2025 and Alpha Trains is supposed to recieve suitable Vectron MS locomotives in 2026, which would also remove the need to change locomotives at Ventimigla.

[@marcobsdc1697]

Please try the whoosh from Jakarta to Bandung for the next video

[@AntenneQC]

Je suis allé voir le site de TTI et c'est une subdivision de FS qui opère plusieurs lignes (7 pendant l'été 2024) de trains touristiques deluxe. Bonne idée. Je me demande par contre à quel point ça fonctionne, car votre train semble assez vide. Peut-être pas le plus fréquenté ? C'est clairement un produit de haute qualité pour une clientèle de connaisseur ou qui a les moyens de se payer un peu plus de luxe. Et on a finalement eu droit à un cab ride sur Simply Railway ! Bravo.

[@dodaz2049]

Oui ça fonctionne, la filiale est bonne

[@joshchicago2008]

Is this in operation already? When did it start? Great video. I would totally ride this from Nice a Milano!

[@Lorre982]

It is for summer period, now there are 2 autumn/ fall offerts

[@joshchicago2008]

@ Merci. I do enjoy your work. Bon journee!

[@simonf8902]

Beautiful carriages! Traditional restaurant car. ❤

[@oremust3718]

Zut, j'aurais aimé savoir ça ! J'avais prévu d'acheter des billets en août pour l'anniversaire de ma femme, mais je n'étais pas au courant.

[@amberbaltic297]

Why is this train so slow? 320 km in 6.5h? Avg under 50kmh?

[@MarceloBenoit-trenes]

Mountains in the way. There is no high speed line (yet) between Genoa and Milano.

[@samtrak1204]

Where and when was this train built?

[@vince2mtp874]

Cette vidéo me rappelle à quel point on ne sait plus faire du « train » en france à part de la grande vitesse. Quand je pense à nos Intercité j’ai honte quand je vois le prix et les prestations. Et pourtant je suis cheminot mais il faut savoir être honnête…

[@dodaz2049]

Même chose en Italie

[@andywillis2650]

Great video Thibault on a luxurious train. But what happened to your usual voiceover ??

[@IndraKumar-md9ut]

Since when was this train introduced? I travelled on the same route in October 2015. I had to change trains twice, first at Ventimiglia, then at Genoa. The total time taken for the journey was abou 11 hours, including abot 3 hours stop-overs. It was a very tiring journey. While booking ticket at the Nice Ville station a day before the journey, the girl at tge counter told me that this was the only train connection between the two cities of France and Italy.

[@Lubelski83]

Nice train and ride👍🍺🖐️

[@railvan.falcon12703]

Can we ride this with EuRail Pass ? Or a separate seat reservation is required..

[@louiscy]

Love it🥰

[@shimamune6108]

La VIVA🎉

[@ethancampbell6076]

2:08 Ex-Fret Sector of SNCF before transferring to the different sectors?

[@davidesacco601]

Pourquoi “Frecciarossa” sur l’ecrain?? 😭😭

[@samtrak1204]

Where can I find ETR 252 magazine?

[@Bitrey]

You made me feel proud to be Italian, very rare xD

[@intersezioni]

dovresti essere sempre orgoglioso, l'italia fa cose come queste piu' di quello che tu pensi, spegni la tv e informati

[@Bitrey]

@@intersezioni TV una sega, sono un laureando in informatica e ormai alla ricerca di lavoro ci rinuncio qua in Italia perché con gli stipendi offerti ormai manco ci pago l'affitto, e non ho intenzione di essere schiavizzato per i prossimi chissà quanti anni della mia vita. Dopo non so quante candidature mie senza manco la RAL indicata, per sentire a fine colloquio "sì certo contratto come tirocinante per 400 euro al mese perché siamo un'azienda piccola quindi tutti dobbiamo impegnarci" ecc, Italia, adios. Grazie per l'ottima istruzione universitaria, ma non vivrò mai in un paese che, al posto che aiutarmi, mi ostacola.

[@kennymackie4518]

Looks very nice on inside, you have to touch everything! 😂