Seasoned passengers know that when it rains, they need to unfurl their umbrellas inside to shield themselves from the water streaming through the roof of the carriages.
It has recently been voted the worst train network in Italy, a creaking, leaking route that carries bewildered tourists and weary commuters between Naples and various towns around Mount Vesuvius.
The beleaguered train network, which has six lines covering more than 100 stations, is so dysfunctional and disaster prone that it has inspired aBoth are the creations of Giovanni Masturzo. He is a 40-year-old who has been using the network for the last two decades to commute from his home in Castellammare di Stabia to Sorrento, where he works in a chocolate factory.
As the network services the coastal resort of Sorrento and Herculaneum and Pompeii, the Roman sites smothered in pumice and ash by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption over 2000 years ago, it is frequently used by foreign tourists.But they are often left confused by the experience. Mr Masturzo says the Facebook page is “a way of transforming all the stress and frustration into something funny, light-hearted”.
Fellow commuter Dr Sophie Hay, a British archaeologist who has worked for many years at Pompeii, agrees that it does showcase “the real Naples”.“I call it the tonka toy train. It’s true that it has its problems. It’s often overcrowded and in the summer the smell of sweat is pretty ripe. The app is rubbish and mainly doesn’t work,” she said.
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