After a few hours in Rimini, which I decided wasn’t really enough and so I’ll have to come back, it was time for the next part of my rail journey which was to Bologna. I was changing trains there, so I only had a short period there, although I did spend a week in Bologna a few years ago. I remember lots of tall towers….
Mine was the 12:43 train and I was pleased that everything was on time. My plan was to travel to Bologna and then from there, I’d go to Venice.
The railway station opened in 1861 and it has survived, albeit damaged, bombings from the Austro-Hungarian Navy during the First World War and from allied aircraft during the Second World War. There aren’t many facilities at the railway station, there’s a bar, shop and paid for toilets. This is something that annoys me about most railway stations in Italy, they don’t have the UK approach to matters that they really should be free of charge. Well, in my view anyway.
My Hitachi Rock train gliding into the platform.
It was a little busy, but there were still plenty of seats. As I’ve mentioned numerous times on this blog recently, I like these clean, open and modern double-decker trains. I’ve yet to have a problem getting a seat on one of these trains and the prices are towards the lower end of the scale.
And safely into Bologna railway station.