I spent endless summers on this line. For me, taking these trains has always meant: holidays!

I never thought I'd say this but the MTA should go over there to give them advice on how to fight graffiti on the trains. If there is one thing that the MTA has gotten right over the past 30 odd years is how to keep the rolling stock nearly totally graffiti free. I guess Italian rail yards and layover tracks aren't fenced off or patrolled as much.

The reason why this line is in such a bad shape is because, even if it's entirely located inside Rome's municipal boundaries and even if it used to be operated by Rome's municipal transport company Atac, it's owned by the Lazio region (which Rome is part of), instead of the municipality itself, like all the trams and metro lines. In the last years those two institutions have been ruled by politicians of different parties, who didn't like each other at all, and kept blaming each other over who had to pay for the maintenance of the line and rolling stock, using its decay as a way to gather votes. The Lazio region recently decided to take the line away from Atac to give it to its own transport company Cotral (which lacks any experience in operating railways) instead, citing Atac's incompetence: this was mainly a publicity stunt, as Atac never got the money from them to operate it properly. As of now it seems like two new stations building sites, abandoned for years, have restarted. Cotral has repainted an old train in its own livery, without any major refurbrishment, but with some media coverage. Workers are protesting due to the new shifts imposed by Cotral: I don't know who's right on this diatribe as (ex-) Atac workers tend to be really over-syndacalized, but as there are very few available trains it's impossible for now to increase the train frequency. New trains won't be available for years. My personal opinion on this matter is that this bureaucratic nightmare should end immediately: this line should be transferred to the Rome municipality to become a real metro line, connected to the Jonio branch of line B through central Rome, to which it's already connected. As the loading gauge of the two lines are slightly different, some modifcations would have to be made to the platforms and overhead wires, or purpose-built trains would need to be ordered. Having a line that looks and works exactly as a metro line but is not due to historic circumstances is a total nonsense.

There are graffiti on the train...make me think of New York in the 70s 80s

Love the retro platform lighting at Porta San Paolo!

The graffiti express. Interesting vixeo. Thanks Tim😀💚

Went on this, from Ostia Antica to EUR Magliana. Always wondered why this was never a branch of Metro Line B, considering it's metro characteristics

Uber cool looking rolling stock. I like the low angles and tilt and audio. So much more interesting than posed tripod shots with perfect and identical pans. We all want good transit but do we really want bland uniformity? I am grateful such a line like this exists for us to discover. The king of this genre of rapid transit is the Naples Circumvesuviana (on my channel).

Typical ATAC maintenance. 😉 Time will only tell if it changes under ASTRAL. Those trains look similar, albeit not identical, to Barcelona Metro 5000 Series.

Yo nice video

The unnofficial Rome Metro Line D

"The line, despite having the characteristics of a mainline railroad, is operated with the same rolling stock operated on the Rome metro." So the Italian Staten Island Railway....got it.

rome-lido fr don’t care about their trains. they fr starting to become the MTA when they have a retired train in the yard 💀💀💀

Ngl they should clean the trains

Need to ride the creepy train.

What was that broken monument all about?? 🤔

🙁🙁😢😢😢

$236,999 thanks! 1:22

Love the grafftis❤🎉

What a filthy disgusting system I’m shocked that it is in Italy ,I’ll never moan about our system again 😔